Turning Standards Into Everyday Practice
Hand hygiene is a foundation of infection prevention and control. Across Canada and internationally, established guidance emphasizes performing hand hygiene at the appropriate moment and ensuring personnel have practical access to the supplies needed to do so.
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) identifies point-of-care alcohol-based hand rub as the preferred method of hand hygiene in healthcare settings when hands are not visibly soiled and specified exceptions do not apply. PHAC further describes hand hygiene with point-of-care alcohol-based hand rub as the standard of care expected in all healthcare settings and of all healthcare workers.
Clean Clip™ brings alcohol-based hand rub directly to personnel, helping organizations extend hand-hygiene access beyond fixed dispensers and into the environments where people actually work.
Protocols define when. Clean Clip helps remove “where” as a barrier.
Supporting Point-of-Care Hand Hygiene
At the federal level, PHAC's Routine Practices and Additional Precautions provides national infection prevention and control guidance applicable across Canadian healthcare settings.
PHAC recommends alcohol-based hand rub at the point of care as the preferred method of hand hygiene, subject to identified exceptions. Its guidance also calls on healthcare organizations to provide the education, equipment and supplies necessary to implement Routine Practices and to support and monitor compliance.
Canadian federal guidance even recognizes situations where fixed dispensers may not be appropriate, recommending individual supplies of alcohol-based hand rub for healthcare workers in certain circumstances.
Clean Clip supports this point-of-care principle by making sanitizer personal, wearable and immediately accessible as personnel move through their working environment.
The hygiene opportunity moves. Access should move with it.
Clean Clip makes point-of-care access wearable whether hands are gloved or bare.
WHO My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene
The World Health Organization (WHO) provides an internationally recognized framework for hand hygiene through its My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene:
Before touching a patient
Before a clean or aseptic procedure
After body-fluid exposure risk
After touching a patient
After touching patient surroundings
These moments can occur repeatedly and rapidly throughout the working day.
WHO's broader Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy recognizes that successful hand hygiene requires more than education. Its approach combines system change, training and education, monitoring and feedback, workplace reminders and an institutional safety culture. A central element of system change is ensuring healthcare workers have access to alcohol-based hand rub at the point of patient care.
Clean Clip makes point-of-care access wearable whether hands are gloved or bare.
Clean Clip does not replace an organization's infection prevention and control program. It provides an additional infrastructure option designed to help personnel put established protocols into practice.
Putting Infection Prevention and Control Within Reach
Infection Prevention and Control Canada (IPAC Canada) provides national practice recommendations for hand hygiene in healthcare settings and brings together guidance from PHAC and other Canadian and international infection prevention authorities.
Across these frameworks, a consistent principle emerges: organizations need the appropriate infrastructure, supplies, education and processes to support hand hygiene where care is delivered.
Clean Clip addresses one practical part of that equation:
Put access within reach of the person expected to follow the protocol.
Supporting Hand Hygiene Beyond the Audit
Monitoring and feedback are important components of both Canadian and international hand-hygiene improvement strategies. PHAC recommends multimodal approaches that include audit and feedback, while WHO includes monitoring and feedback as one of the five components of its improvement strategy.
But hand-hygiene opportunities occur continuously, whether an observer is present or not.
With Clean Clip carried by the individual, appropriate hand hygiene does not have to depend solely on proximity to a fixed dispenser. Personnel can have sanitizer within reach as they move between patients, rooms and operational environments.
For healthcare organizations using the HealthCare Data Module, stored device-use information can also complement existing quality-improvement and monitoring programs.
Build the practice into the workflow, not just the audit.
Hand Hygiene Wherever People Work and Serve
WHO's 2025 Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Community Settings extend international guidance beyond healthcare facilities to public and institutional settings. WHO emphasizes removing barriers and creating environments where hand-hygiene facilities are convenient, accessible and easy to use. When hands are not visibly dirty, WHO recognizes alcohol-based hand rub containing at least 60% alcohol as an effective alternative to soap and water.
These principles have relevance for mobile and public-facing workforces in environments such as education, transportation, community services and other institutional settings where personnel may not always be working within immediate reach of fixed hand-hygiene infrastructure.
Clean Clip extends accessible hand hygiene beyond the wall by bringing sanitizer directly to the individual.
WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Community SettingsACCESS
Hand-hygiene standards establish when action is needed. Organizations provide the policies, training, monitoring and expectations that support those standards.
Clean Clip addresses a fundamental operational requirement:
For healthcare professionals moving between patients.
For emergency and public-safety personnel responding in the field.
For mobile teams working beyond fixed facilities.
For public-facing personnel interacting with people throughout their working day.
The standards are established. Clean Clip helps make timely action practical.
Point-of-need access. Anywhere the work takes you.