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Below you will find links to the Commission’s hand hygiene promotional posters, leaflets and signs. Please feel free to use these within your organisation. For additional hand hygiene promotional resources you may wish to visit the World Health Organization and Hand Hygiene Australia websites.

You will also find two patient stories that highlight the importance of good hand hygiene.

You can order some of these resources. Please see the last row of the table below for further information. 

A screen shot of a How to Hand Rub poster with step by step illustrations of how to hand wash as well as several images of illustrated cartoon germs and bacteria.

How to use hand rub poster

(Available in Arabic, English, Hindi, Samoan, Simplified Chinese, Te reo Māori and Tongan.)
 A screen shot of a How to Hand Wash poster with step by step illustrations of how to hand wash as well as several images of illustrated cartoon germs and bacteria.  

How to wash your hands poster

(Available in Arabic, English, Hindi, Samoan, Simplified Chinese, Te reo Māori and Tongan.)
 Two screenshots of posters titled Your 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene. They each outline the five steps: Before touching a patient, before a procedure, after a procedure or body fluid exposure risk, after touching a patient and after touching a patient's surroundings  Your 5 moments for hand hygiene poster
 A screen shot of a poster titled 'Are you giving germs a hand?'. It has various germs drawn as cartoon characters.  

Are you giving germs a hand? poster

(Available in English, te reo Māori, Samoan, Tongan, Hindi and Simplified Chinese.)
A screen shot of a poster titled 'Favourite germ hotspots?'. It has various germs drawn as cartoon characters.

Favourite germ hotspots poster

(Available in English,  te reo Māori, Samon, Tongan, Hindi and Simplified Chinese.)
 A screen shot of a poster titled 'Hands can spread infection'. It has a drawing of person applying a bandage to another person. There is a magnified area of the arm which contains various cartoon stylised germs.


Hands can spread infection: Clean your hands poster (World Hand Hygiene Day 2023)

(Available in English, te reo Māori, Samoan, Tongan, Hindi, Simplified Chinese and Arabic)
A screenshot of a poster with two graphics. One of hands washing using soap and one of hands using sanitiser. The text on the poster reads: Wash your hands for 20 seconds and dry your hands thoroughly or use hand sanitiser and rub hands together until dry,

Wash your hands poster

(Available in English, te reo Māori, Samoan, Tongan, Hindi and Simplified Chinese.)
 A screen shot of a poster with the words: Some sporting events may be on hold but hand hygiene never is. Below this are drawings of hands in different hand washing positions: Hang 10, The bind, Forehand/Backhand, Body lock, The crossover and Chalking up. Below this are the words: Hand Hygiene: The sport with 5 million fans. At the bottom of the poster is an icon of a sports stadium with an outline of New Zealand.  World Hand Hygiene Day 2020 poster
 A black and white image of a child wearing a bandanna and sitting in a hospital bed. Patient stories
  

You can also order free printed A3 copies of the following posters online here: 

For public or clinical areas: 

  • Wash your hands 
  • Are you giving germs a hand? 
  • Hands can spread infection: Clean your hands

For clinical areas only: 

  • How to hand rub 
  • How to hand wash 
  • Favourite germ hotspots 
  • Your 5 moments for hand hygiene 
Published: 19 Oct 2021 Modified: 13 Feb 2025