Within Control – Infection Prevention & Training Your Shield Against Infection Sterilisation failure is one of those situations every dental practice hopes will never happen. But a strong infection prevention and control system is not built on the assumption that equipment and processes will never fail. It is built around the ability to recognise a

In dental instrument reprocessing, it is easy to hear the steriliser beep, see “Cycle Complete”, remove the load and assume the instruments are ready for use.But a completed cycle and a successfully processed load are not necessarily the same thing.AS/NZS 5369:2023 – Reprocessing of reusable medical devices and other devices in health and non-health related

A dental chair can look spotless. The bracket tray can be wiped. The light handles can appear perfectly clean.But looking clean and being effectively disinfected are not the same thing.One of the most easily overlooked parts of environmental disinfection is also one of the simplest: Contact time. The wipe is only part of the processWhen

If you work in a dental practice, you have almost certainly heard the term AS/NZS 5369:2023 in the last couple of years. But for many teams, the Standard can still feel abstract — a document referenced in policies and audits rather than something that shapes the everyday reprocessing bench. At Within Control, we believe every

A dental practice can invest in modern sterilisers, instrument tracking systems, ultrasonic cleaners, washer-disinfectors and a well-designed reprocessing area — but equipment alone does not create a safe infection prevention and control system. People do. Effective Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) training is one of the most important foundations for translating AS/NZS 5369:2023 and current