The World Health Organization (WHO) Patient Safety team has developed a series of tools to support health care facilities to improve hand hygiene, including:

• - WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care
• - WHO Guide to Implementation of the WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy
• - Alcohol-based Handrub Planning & Costing tool
• - Hand Hygiene-Why, How and When brochure
• - Observation form to assess health worker hand hygiene and provide feedback
• - “Your five moments for hand hygiene” poster
• - Sustaining improvement--additional activities for consideration by health care facilities

The tools may be downloaded from the WHO "SAVE LIVES-Clean Your Hands" Initiative Tools and Resources web page linked below.