Last year, BC’s health authorities, PICNet, and the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council launched Clean Shots, a contest that asked for your best hand hygiene-related photos. The contest ended up receiving over 1000 photos, many of which blew us away with their creativity. Check out some of our favourites here.

Well, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute liked Clean Shots so much that it asked to open the contest up to the rest of Canada. Needless to say, Clean Shots is back, bigger and better.

Clean Shots runs from today until World Hand Hygiene Day on May 5!

It’s all about spreading the word about the easiest thing we can all do to protect our patients, colleagues and ourselves.

Join your colleagues from across Canada in this fun contest that raises awareness about the importance of hand hygiene.

3 simple steps to enter

Step 1 – Take Your Clean Shot
Take your best hand hygiene-related photo. Creativity counts. Team up with your colleagues!

Step 2 – Submit Your Clean Shot
Upload your picture. It’s easy!

If you have any problems submitting your photos, we can submit them for you. Just email us at handhygiene@vch.ca.  Make sure to include the full name of everyone in the photo and where you work.

Step 3 – Repeat
The more times you enter, the better your odds of winning a prize!

Submission deadline 

May 4, 2015

Terms and conditions

We want to spread the word so all photos submitted to the contest will be shared on websites and social media sites (like Twitter and Facebook) throughout the country. Learn more.

Prizes, prizes and more prizes

Local prizes

• Weekly prizes – Each Clean Shot you submit can win a weekly prize from VCH
• Most creative- The person from BC who submits the most creative photo will win a GoPro camera
• Most submissions – The health authority that receives the most Clean Shots wins a trophy – and bragging rights! We won last year so let’s make this a winning streak.

(Left to Right: Mary Ackenhusen, President & CEO, Vancouver Coastal Health; Sheila Browning, Regional Coordinator, Hand Hygiene Program, Vancouver Coastal Health; Doug Cochrane, Chair, BCPSQC and Provincial Patient Safety & Quality Officer; Helen Evans, Communications Officer, Provincial Infection Control Network of BC)

National prizes

• Submitting the best Clean Shot from across Canada gets you free admission to Infection Prevention and Control Canada’s 2015 National Education Conference (June 14-17 in Victoria)
• Two runners-up will receive hand hygiene care packages from GOJO

Good luck! Check out last year’s entries for inspiration.