Environmental Cleaning & Disinfection

November 11, 2022

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Environmental Cleaning and Disinfecting - Top 10 Best Practices

Environmental Cleaning Top 10 Best Practices from Public Health Ontario

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Criteria for Selecting a Disinfectant

If reviewing current or new environmental cleaning and disinfection products, follow this checklist to make sure the product you choose meets all the required criteria.

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Hand Hygiene/Environmental Cleaning and Disinfecting

Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection product review presented by Dale Moses, CSS IPAC Consultant.

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Best Practices for Environmental Cleaning for Prevention and Control of Infections in All Health Care Settings, 3rd Edition

This document is a thorough revision of the Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee’s (PIDAC) previous best practices document on environmental cleaning and disinfection published in 2012.

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