Patients with suspected and/or confirmed COVID-19 disease require Contact and Droplet precautions to be used

• Use a medical mask along with eye protection (face shield, safety glasses or goggles), gloves and gown when taking nasopharyngeal and throat swabs. 
  
  
• Use a N95 respirator or equivalent with gown, gloves and eye protection (face shield or goggles) when performing aerosol generating medical procedures (AGMP) on patients suspected (patients with COVID-19 risk) or confirmed to have COVID-19.  
  
  
• Download Aerosol Generating Medical Procedures (AGMP) sign- June 17, 2021
  

Masks, respirators and eye and facial protection

• How to Wear a Surgical Mask poster for instructions on how to put on and remove a surgical mask.
  
  
• The Eye Protection Selection Fit Tool is a resource for health care workers to assess, select and properly fit eye protection PPE options including face shield, safety goggles, visor attached to mask and safety glasses - New August 20, 2021
  
  
• Prescription Eye Protection Selection Requirements - This tool can be used to ensure that your prescription eye protection meets health and safety standards with respect to fit and required protection - Updated November 19, 2021
  
  
• Cleaning and disinfection for eye and facial protection for information on goggles, safety glasses and face shields. 
  
  
• Elastomeric half-face respirators (EHFR):
• Guidance Elastomeric Half Face Respirator Source Control in Pre-Hospital and Health-Care Settings: Guidance or the use and source control of reusable EHFR with an unfiltered valve.
  
• Instructions for fitting Elastomeric Half Face Respirator that does not have an exhalation valve filter: Poster with instructions on how to wear and apply a medical mask over the EHFR unfiltered valve.
  
• Learn how to safely reprocess reusable elastomeric respirators.   
  
  
• Respiratory Protection Options for Operating Room Settings: N95s, Powered Air Purifying Respirators and Elastomeric Half-Face Respirators - new January 18, 2022
• This document evaluates appropriate respiratory protection options for use in the OR setting, including considerations for the use of reusable elastomeric half-face respirators (EHFRs) and powered air purifying respirators (PAPRs) while working in the sterile field and for source control.
  
  
• The continuous, extended and repetitive use of PPE, including masks, gloves and safety glasses/goggles may cause adverse skin reactions. Learn how to prevent and manage PPE-related skin damage.
  
  
• Position Statement: Double Masking and Masking Recommendations for Medical Masks in Health Care Settings - New March 19, 2021
  
  
• More pieces and layers of PPE doesn’t mean more protection – Wearing extra PPE complicates the doffing process and increases the risk of self-contamination. For more information, review the appropriate PPE poster.

PPE Audit Tool

• The PPE Audit tool is intended for health authorities’ auditors and site administrators to help them assess health-care worker competency and compliance with personal protective equipment (PPE) donning and doffing procedures when providing care to patients confirmed or suspected of having COVID-19. - New March 19, 2021
  

Steps for putting on (donning) personal protective equipment

• Download the 5 steps to don (put on) personal protective equipment (PPE) poster (PDF).
  
• AGMP list
  

Steps for taking off (doffing) personal protective equipment for droplet and contact precautions

• Download doffing poster (droplet and contact precautions)
  

Steps for taking off (doffing) personal protective equipment for airborne precautions (includes AGMP)

• Download doffing poster (airborne precautions [AGMP])

Additional information on PPE

• Provincial support for using reusable gowns for Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) purposes

Use of a Powered Air-Purifying Respirator (PAPR)