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Safe OR Design Tool

The Safe OR Design Tool was developed to engage multidisciplinary design teams comprised of clinicians, designers, and researchers in a more collaborative design process when designing OR environments, and to provide a comprehensive understanding of how different design elements impact safety in the OR using a systems approach. The tool can also support multiple stakeholders in understanding how the built environment can be leveraged to increase safety in the OR.

Multidisciplinary design teams may find this tool helpful when implementing design strategies into the design or redesign of new or existing ORs to support targeted outcomes such as improving visual and information awareness, improving movement and flow, and reducing disruptions. Additionally, this tool could be used to conduct post-occupancy evaluations of existing ORs to determine design interventions that could be implemented to increase patient and staff safety within the OR environment.

The web-based tool provides an opportunity to interact with components in an OR environment through a 3D model. The web interface allows users to explore design strategies and their associated desired outcomes for a series of design elements commonly found in OR environments. Additionally, users of the tool may filter design strategies by the type of strategy it is within the work system and access citations associated with each design strategy. http://ordesign.clemson.edu/or_design_toolkit