Jurnal Riset Kesehatan, 8 (2), 2019, 33 - 39 DOI: 10.31983/jrk.v8i2.3811 Copyright © 2019, Jurnal Riset Kesehatan, e-ISSN 2461-1026 Jurnal Riset Kesehatan http://ejournal.poltekkes-smg.ac.id/ojs/index.php/jrk _________________________________________________________________ THE SURVEY OF SAFETY CULTURE IN RSUP Dr. KARIADI SEMARANG Elyana Sri Sulistyowati a* ; Septi Dewi Muninggar b ; Verarica Silalahi c ; Debi Ariyanto d ; Endang Fatmawati e ; Dharma Wahyu Edhy f ; Anggit Anandoyo g a,b,c,d,e,f,g Quality and Patient Safety Committee of RSUP Dr.Kariadi Semarang ; Dr. Sutomo 16, Semarang 50244 ; Indonesia Abstract Patient safety in hospitals is a crucial issue as significant medication errors occur in some countries. Patient safety incidence is inevitably related to safety culture implemented in hospitals. This survey aims to investigate the dimension of patient safety serving as a strong area and dimension for potential improvement. This study used a cross-sectional approach involving 361 subjects in all units in RSUP Dr. Kariadi. Findings are presented in graphs and frequency tables. This study found three dimensions of strength area involving management support regarding patient safety (92.93%), organizational learning-continuous improvement (91.73%), and unit cooperation (86.1%). Meanwhile, the area for potential improvement involving employment (45.43%), incidence report frequency (58.07%), and open communication (60.67%). Dimensions serving as strength areas need to be maintained while dimension for potential improvement need for support to cultivate patient safety culture in RSUP Dr. Kariadi. Keywords: survey ; patient safety culture ; patient safety dimensions ; strength area ; area for potential improvement 1. Introduction The hospital provides complex and risky health services. In hospitals, there are hundreds of medicines, laboratory tests, and procedures, highly sophisticated medical equipment, diverse medics, and non-medics providing 24 hours services. Undesired incidence and near-missed incidence may occur when service diversity and routinely are poorly managed. (Health Ministry, 2008). One of the quality indicators in hospital accreditation is based on the International Patient Safety Goal (IPSG) referring to the standard of the Joint Commission International (JCI) (Health Ministry, 2011). There are five crucial issues related to safety in hospitals involving patient safety, employee or health professional safety, building and facility safety affecting patient and employee or health professional safety, environment safety (green productivity) affecting environment contamination and hospital business safety pertinent with business continuity (Health Ministry, 2010). Patient safety in hospitals is a crucial issue since a significant number of medical errors occur in some countries. The World Health Organization reported incidences of patient safety in which medical errors experienced by 8-12% of inpatients while 23% of European people experienced serious medical errors in hospitals and 11% of them reported having been prescribed wrong medicines (WHO, 2016). Fifty percent of death associated with medical injuries are preventable (Cahyono and Suhardjo, 2012). The Institute of Medicines (IOM) in 2000 in America published a paper "To Err is Human, Building to Safer Health System" *) Corresponding Author (Elyana Sri Sulistyowati) Email: elyana.ss@gmail.com