Dean's Award for Excellence in Health, Safety and Wellbeing.

Protection of health care workers and students when performing aerosol-generating procedures is paramount in the sustainability of a healthy work force during pandemics. A non-inferiority randomised controlled trial was conducted to test the efficacy of using an education and qualitative mask-fit approach in an attempt to reduce financial and logistical burdens on the University and its affiliate clinical partners. This study confirmed that quantitative mask fit testing remains the gold standard, despite the resources used, to meet required safety control standards.