The CSPS endorses the following safe surgery principles with participation from all members of the multidisciplinary perioperative care team to achieve optimal patient outcomes:

1. Universal Nomenclature
2. Patient Monitoring
3. Transfer of Patient Care
4. Safe Surgery Checklist
5. Sharps Safety
6. Foreign Body Retention Prevention
7. Fire Safety
8. Perioperative Prophylaxis
9. Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia, Catheter-Related Bacteremia, and Surgical Site Infection
10. Violence in the Workplace
11. Evidence-Based Standards of Practice
12. Perioperative Medication Error
13. Operative Specimen Safety
14. Maintenance of Perioperative Normothermia
15. Patient Resuscitation Plans
16. Adequate Rest Periods
17. Team Education and Training
18. Smoke Evacuation
19. Disaster Relief Response
20. Prevention of Indwelling Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI)