Abstract: There is provided a system for monitoring hygiene compliance in a medical facility. The system includes personnel tags for patients and for healthcare workers within the facility; sensors, to be carried by healthcare workers, which recognize personnel tags for patients within a distance of 1 meter; washing stations provided with tags which are recognized by said sensors within a distance of 0.5 meter; and a control unit, to be carried by the healthcare workers, said control unit being programmed to detect whether a healthcare worker bearing one of the personnel tags accessed a washing station prior to contacting a patient bearing a separate one of the personnel tags.