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Abstract Patient safety is one of the most urgent issues facing the quality of health care today, it is a fundamental principles of health care. Patient safety improvement demands a complex wide effort involving a wide range of actions in performance improvement, environmental safety and risk management. The study aimed to design and validating a tool to assess environmental risk factors affect hospitalized patient in Port Said city. A methodological design was used. The study was conducted in Port Said General Hospital and El –Zohour Hospital. The study sample consists of four groups were; health team members (n=260), all housekeepers (n =39), patients (n=60) and jury members (n=35). Three tools were used for data collection, namely; opinionnaire validating sheet, questionnaire sheet, and observation checklists. Results: All the highest percentage of the jury group members agreed upon all items of content validity, with no statistically significant differences between the two jury groups. The highly reliability coefficient was for the general work condition domain (0.969), while the lowest was for fire measures domain (0.453). The highest mean score of opinion about the importance of the environmental risk factors tool was among nurses, followed by physicians and the lowest mean score of opinion was among patient . Conclusion: The results demonstrated that the majority of environmental risk factors assessment tool where applicable, in inpatient units at the two hospitals more applicable in El-Zohour Hospital than Port Said General Hospital. Recommendation: The environmental risk factors assessment tool should be provided for each department in health organization. Generalize the designed tool to be used in other hospitals in the country. |