True or False: When using antiseptic soap a quick wash will do since the soap continues to work for long periods.

Answer: False

For safety coordinators who are putting together an awareness campaign for Infection Control Week, the Community and Hospital Infection Control Association - Canada (CHICA-Canada) has a very helpful website full of tips and tools you can use for a successful event, including how to set up a display, as well as a list of Infection Control true or false questions (like the one above) that you can use in quizzes, tent cards or brochures.

Here are a few more True or False questions from their site:

• Early symptoms of tuberculosis are fatigue, loss of appetite and weight loss.
  Answer: True
• The TB germ dies after a few minutes outside the human body.
  Answer: False
• If you come to work when you are unwell, you are endangering the lives of patients and co-workers.
  Answer: True
• Hepatitis B virus is more infectious than Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
  Answer: True

CHICA-Canada's site also has more than a dozen activity suggestions designed to involve anyone in your organization, encourage participation and result in learning. For example, your activities could include:

• A handwashing skills test. Have participants check how well they have washed their hands using "glow in the dark" powders or solutions. Or have them wear gloves and wash with colored finger-paint to see where they've missed.
• Handwashing cards. Give workers handwashing cards to mark each time they wash their hands during a shift. Then put the cards in a box for draw. If nothing else, this activity will make them aware of how many times their hands should be washed in a day.
• Hands that care. Post onto a board photos of the hands and faces of various people in your workplace. Have a contest where workers try to match hands with faces, with a prize to the winner.

You can even sing songs about infection control. No, really. There's:

• "I'm So Much Cleaner" by Jim Gauthier (song to the tune of "I'm a Believer")
• "Goodbye MRSA" by Jim Gauthier (to the tune of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"), and
• "Control: the Cure for ACHY BREAKY ICP Hearts" by Lee Hanna & Marg McKenzie. You can guess which tune that's sung to.

Here's a link to their site.

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