Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Donning PPE Doffing PPE

(Before entering the patient room) (remove gloves and gown at doorway, mask and
eyewear in anteroom or outside room)
Step Hand hygiene
1 • Remove jewellery –
Step Removing and disposing of gloves
Ensure bare below the 1
elbows
• Perform hand hygiene

Step Fitting gown

2 • Put the gown on so that • Remove by • Immediately dispose • Perform
your front and arms are gripping at of gloves in hand
fully covered and gown cuffs appropriate waste hygiene
opening is at the back
• Fasten ties at the neck and Step Removing and disposing of gown
at the back
2
Step Apply and fit mask –
3 surgical mask for
droplet precautions

• Metal band fitted across

bridge of nose • With clean hands untie gown • Roll gown • Perform
• Touching only the inside of into bundle hand
the gown, pull from neck and and discard hygiene
PFR for airborne in appropriate
shoulders, then arms, turning
precautions waste
inside out as gown is removed
• If PFR required (N95/P2),
perform fit check Step Removing and disposing of
3 goggles /faceshield

Step Fitting goggles or

4 face shield

• Position goggles over eyes

or face shield over face
• Adjust if necessary
• Remove • Discard or • Perform
eyewear by reprocess with hand
Step Hand hygiene handling sides disinfectant hygiene
5 • Perform hand hygiene or back only wipes, store dry

Step Removing and disposing of mask

4
Step Fit gloves over cuff
6 of gown

• Fit gloves, adjusting

at the cuffs
• Remove mask by only handling at ties, • Perform hand
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then discard in appropriate waste hygiene

Text courtesy of the Australian Government Department of Health