The document provides health and safety tips to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, including washing hands often, using hand sanitizer, wearing a mask, avoiding touching your face, covering sneezes and coughs, avoiding close contact, using your own supplies, and cleaning electronics. It also discusses ways to break the chain of infection through proper hygiene, protective clothing, disinfecting, sterilizing, sanitizing, and practicing good etiquette.

1. Health and Safety Tips
Wash your
hands often
Use hand
sanitizer
Wear a mask Don’t touch
your face
Cover your sneezes
and coughs
Avoid close
contact
Use your own
supplies
Clean your
electronics

2. 1. Remember
to wash your
hands

3. 2. Please
cover your
cough and
sneezes

4. 3. Please
wear a mask

5. 4. Please
wait here

6. 5. Please
practice
social
distancing

7. 6. Wipe down
between use

8. 7. Avoid
shaking
hands,
high fives,
and hugs

9. Communicable diseases can be
prevented. They can also be
controlled once they start to infect
people. To do this, one needs to
review the chain of infection and think
of ways to break the chain at every
point.

10. How to prevent
communicable
Diseases

11. 1. Proper hygiene practices help to
arrest the pathogen at the mode of
transmission stage.

12. 2. Wearing protective clothing like
masks and gloves helps stop the
pathogen from infecting a person
through the portal of entry.

13. 3. Disinfect - to free from infection
especially by destroying harmful
microorganisms

14. 4. Sterilize -to free from
living microorganisms.
Sterilization can be
achieved through various
means, including heat,
chemicals, irradiation, high
pressure, and filtration.

16. 5. Sanitize/sanitation -to
make sanitary, as by
cleaning or sterilizing

17. • Etiquette - the rules governing the
proper way to behave
Example: Eating your food properly or
behaving while eating your breakfast,
lunch or dinner.