This manual has been developed by the Victorian Rural Infection Control Practice Group (RICPRAC) to meet an identified need for resources for hospital Infection Control Practitioners when formulating policy and procedures. RICPRAC is a collaborative network of Infection control consultants with regional responsibilities in the five non metropolitan DHS regions of Victoria, and one representative from DHS.

This generic manual has been developed for Health Care Facilities to use and/or implement as appropriate

The Little Yellow Infection Control Booklet series is designed to fill the need for simple, point-of-first-use infection control information. They are not designed to be comprehensive infection control manuals. These booklets provide information on appropriate infection control principles not specific procedures, as specific procedures vary from agency to agency. Practitioners seeking detailed information on agency specific policies and procedures should refer to their agency infection control manual.

Simple presentations on a number of common infection control topics.  (To save as a Power Point presentation - right click link and select 'Save Target As").

Audit tools used to monitor compliance with infection control guidelines and associated standards.

This is a series of three fold pamphlets with simple infection control information about a wide range of topics, and frequently include a quick self test quiz.

This is a series of simple posters that assist spread the message about specific infection control topics

Posters to remind staff what is required for each type of additional precautions.

These word documents have been provided to assist infection control consultants construct a newsletter using samples that have been used in the Grampians Region - you are welcome to use all or part of them to construct your own newsletter. They are published in MS Word so that you can edit them as required.

This training package is designed to assist Division One nurses update their knowledge on how to deal with the rare but very serious post vaccination adverse event - anaphylaxis. This package will be useful for up-skilling nurses in the event of an influenza pandemic where mass vaccination programs may be required.

The PDF files linked below are a series of documents from various sources that provide relevant infection control information for health care workers.