This infographic demonstrates how to safely put on (don) and take off (doff) COVID-19 personal protective equipment for contact and droplet precautions.
This document contains recommendations and specifications related to core components for effective infection prevention and control programs.
This fact sheet summarizes best practices for national implementation to sustain personalprotective equipment while ensuring the protection of healthcare personnel and first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic response.
This page contains key resources for health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Topic areas include latest COVID-19 News from FDA; Personal Protective Equipment; Emergency Use Authorizations and Guidances; Frequently Asked Questions; and FDA Response to COVID-19.
This is a guide for health care workers involved in patient care activities in a health care setting. It aims to show the type of personal protective equipment needed to correctly protect oneself from COVID-19.
This preparedness checklist consists of several elements that are crucial for preparing long-term care facilities for COVID-19. It can be used by facility administrators; infection prevention and control focal points or staff; and internal or external professionals.
This communication toolkit contains a series of simplified messages and reminders based on the World Health Organization's technical guidance on infection prevention and control in the context of COVID-19.
This course provides a general introduction to Acute Respiratory Infections and basic hygiene measures to protect against infection.
This tool has been developed to assess staff competency in carrying out effective hand hygiene.
This hand hygiene toolkit contains many ready-to-use practical tools which been field-tested and have yielded new, interesting data on hand hygiene practices and success factors for improvement.
This poster demonstrates how to thoroughly wash your hands.
This course provides information on what facilities should be doing to be prepared to respond to a case of an emerging respiratory virus such as COVID-19, how to identify a case once it occurs, and how to properly implement infection prevention and control measures to ensure there is no further transmission to healthcare workers or to other patients in the health care facility.
This infection prevention and control course for long-term care facilities consists of four training modules that address infection prevention and control measures to support long-term care facilities in the context of COVID-19.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) developed an online calculator aimed at expanding access to monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment for COVID-19. The calculator helps health administrators and clinicians determine and plan for resource needs to successfully ramp up treatment capacity or update existing practices.
This course consists of five sections that teach health workers how they can protect themselves and others from the occupational risks they encounter throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
This webpage provides additional information about Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) COVID-19 exposure standards and requirements, including requirements in states that operate their own OSHA-approved State plans; recordkeeping requirements and injury/illness recording criteria; and applications of standards related to sanitation and communication of risks related to hazardous chemicals that may be in common sanitizers and sterilizers.
This tool has been developed to assess staff competency in effectively using PPE as an integral part of infection control and prevention measures.
This guidance is specificallly focused on how to use respirators to protect long-term care facility workers from occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2.
This tool is intended for health care facilities that have either cared for or admitted COVID-19 patients. It can help determine the risk of COVID-19 virus infection of all health care workers who have been exposed to a COVID-19 patient and then provides recommendations for appropriate management of these health care workers, according to their infection risk.
This online course teaches health care workers about hand hygiene.