ABSTRACT
Safety standards for the operating room have existed for decades. These standards have traditionally focused on equipment, fire prevention and environmental controls with the primary aim of protecting the people who work in the room. That is, surgeons, perioperative care nurses and anesthesiologists. The present study aimed at developing and validating operating room safety standard through, identifying the potential hazards in the operating rooms, proposing safety standards in the operating room and verifying the proposed safety standards according to expert opinions. The study was conducted at El Demerdash Hospital, Ain Shams University. The sample included 43nurses and 49 physicians who working in the operating Rooms. The data collection tools were a questionnaire format to assess, availability of the potential hazards in the operating rooms, observation checklist to evaluate the performance of the personnel toward the potential hazards and An opinionnair format: this tool aims at reflecting opinions of jury regarding the safety standards to verify its contents, the findings showed statistically significant very high percentages related to agreement of jury group members upon the general responsibilities of the operating room nurse in the proposed standard for all the items. The data collection tools were a questionnaire, it declares very high percentages of the importance in most of items such as Proper surgical positions for each type of operations, Wearing the lead apron during the process of radiography for all employees in the OR and Periodic daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning of OR equipment operations to prevent cross-infection. The study recommended that. The steps of the safety standards must be demonstrating by detail for all team work of the operating rooms. Safety Standards must be available and applicable for all work teams of the operating rooms of the hospital and Demonstrate the effective of the physical hazards on the work teams especially x-ray radiation