| Summary: | Background: The first step in cultivating the culture of safety in the operating room is the assessment of safety
culture among operating room personnel.
Objective: To assess the patient safety culture of operating room personnel at the Department of Surgery, Faculty
of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, and compare attitudes among different groups of personnel, and compare them with
the international standards.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of safety attitudes among 396 operating room personnel, using
a short form of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ). The SAQ employed 30 items to assess safety culture in
six dimensions: teamwork climate, safety climate, stress recognition, perception of hospital management, working
conditions, and job satisfaction. The subscore of each dimension was calculated and converted to a scale score
with a full score of 100, where higher scores indicated better safety attitudes.
Results: The response rate was 66.4%. The overall safety culture score of the operating room personnel was
65.02, higher than an international average (61.80). Operating room personnel at Siriraj Hospital had safety
attitudes in teamwork climate, safety climate, and stress recognition lower than the international average, but had
safety attitudes in the perception of hospital management, working conditions, and job satisfaction higher than
the international average.
Conclusion: The safety culture attitudes of operating room personnel at the Department of Surgery, Siriraj Hospital
were comparable to international standards. The safety dimensions that Siriraj Hospital operating room should
try to improve were teamwork climate, safety climate, and stress recognition.
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