Vaccine Storage and Handling Resources

Labels

Organizing vaccines within the storage unit with labels is a best practice that can minimize vaccination errors. These example vaccine labels can help staff quickly identify vaccines and beyond-use date information, if applicable.

Vaccine Labels (January 2026)

Temperature Information

This new one-pager includes the recommended temperatures for vaccines stored in the refrigerator, freezer, and ultra-cold freezer. This resource includes the vaccine and product trade names for easier identification.

Recommended Vaccine Storage Temperatures

Best Practices

These storage and handling fact sheets illustrate best practices for refrigerated and frozen vaccines. Written in plain language, they include assessments to reinforce key points. While they are CDC-developed and branded fact sheets, each contains an area where you can insert your agency's logo.

Refrigerated Vaccines Storage Best Practices
Fahrenheit (F) | Celsius (C)

Frozen Vaccines Storage Best Practices
Fahrenheit (F) | Celsius (C)

Temperature Monitoring Best Practices

These fact sheets illustrate best practices for refrigerated and frozen vaccines. Written in plain language, they include assessments to reinforce key points. While they are CDC-developed and branded fact sheets, each contains an area where you can insert your agency's logo.

Refrigerated Vaccines Temperature Monitoring (Feb 2018)
Fahrenheit (F) | Celsius (C)

Frozen Vaccines Temperature Monitoring (Feb 2018)
Fahrenheit (F) | Celsius (C)

Temperature Logs for COVID-19 Vaccines

When storing COVID-19 vaccines in your practice, you can use the logs below to track, check, and record daily temperatures.

Refrigerator Vaccine Storage Temperature Logs (Jan 2021)
(Celsius) l (Fahrenheit)

Ultra-Cold Vaccine Storage Temperature Logs (Nov 2021)
(Celsius) l (Fahrenheit)

Temperature Excursions

This guidance document describes immediate corrective actions following a temperature excursion in your vaccine storage unit.

Handling a Temperature Excursion in Your Vaccine Storage Unit

Packing Vaccines

Do you know how to protect your vaccines during equipment failures, power outages, or natural disasters? This document illustrates how to pack refrigerated vaccines during emergencies to prevent compromising vaccine storage conditions and damage to your vaccine supply.

Packing Vaccines for Transport During Emergencies

Transporting Vaccines at Refrigerated Temperatures

This temperature log can be used to track temperatures when transporting refrigerated vaccines.

Transportation Temperature Log

Information to help providers and immunization managers in COVID-19 vaccination programs identify, handle, dispose of, and report COVID-19 vaccine waste.

Identifying, Disposing, and Reporting COVID-19 Vaccine Wastage

This fact sheet reinforces how to protect yourself from needlestick injuries while administering COVID-19 vaccines or helping at vaccination sites.

Safe and Proper Sharps Disposal During the COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Campaign

You Call the Shots

An interactive, web-based module which provides learning opportunities, self-test practice questions, reference and resource materials, and an extensive glossary. Continuing education credit is available.

You Call the Shots: Vaccine Storage and Handling Module

Pink Book

This one-hour web-on-demand video provides comprehensive recommendations and best practices on vaccine storage and handling.

Pink Book Webinar: Vaccine Storage and Handling Module

COVID-19

This web-on-demand, self-paced module is for healthcare providers who administer COVID-19 vaccines. This module includes information about approved COVID-19 vaccines, Emergency Use Authorization, vaccine safety, and guidelines on vaccine storage, handling, administration, and reporting.

COVID-19 Vaccine Training: What Healthcare Professionals Need to Know

This At-a-Glance guide compiles several resources for vaccine administration, storage, and handling.

Vaccine Administration and Storage and Handling Resources Guide

This chapter of the Pink Book provides an overview of best practices for vaccine storage and handling. See the note above about referencing this document.

Pink Book Chapter on Vaccine Storage and Handling

This video highlights Hawaii's 2016 CDC Childhood Immunization Champion Award winner, who demonstrates vaccine storage and handling best practices.

Storage and Handling Best Practices: Hawaii