Hand hygiene is the cornerstone of infection prevention in healthcare. It’s the simplest, most cost-effective intervention available—yet compliance remains stubbornly low. Studies show healthcare workers perform hand hygiene less than half the times they should. This failure has deadly consequences. Healthcare-associated infections affect millions of patients annually, causing extended hospital stays, increased costs, antibiotic resistance, and preventable deaths. Many of these infections spread directly through healthcare workers’ contaminated hands.

The problem isn’t that healthcare workers don’t care—it’s that they don’t always understand when hand hygiene is needed, which method to use in different situations, or how to perform hand hygiene effectively. Staff may rush through handwashing, miss critical steps, use the wrong product, or simply forget during busy workflows. Meanwhile, pathogens like MRSA, C. difficile, norovirus, and respiratory viruses transfer from surface to hand to patient with frightening efficiency.

This essential training course provides healthcare workers with evidence-based hand hygiene practices that save lives. Employees learn why hand hygiene is the most critical infection control measure, when to perform hand hygiene using the WHO “5 Moments” framework, proper technique for both handwashing with soap and water and alcohol-based hand rub application, how to select the appropriate method based on the situation, and strategies for improving compliance and protecting both patients and themselves. The goal is transforming hand hygiene from an afterthought into an automatic, correctly performed action at every critical moment.