Scrub Suits

There may be a need to consider colour-coding of scrub suits (or "theatre clothing"). Operating theatre staff are not allowed to leave the OR suite in scrubs (and, of course, no-one is allowed to enter the suite without first changing into scrubs). However, other scrub-suit wearers (eg, A&E/ER staff) are often to be seen roaming around the hospital (and even outside). There is a danger that such a person could wander right into the OR without being challenged. There is a case, then, for OR staff proper and visitors to the OR suite to have a scrub suit of different colour to the others, so that interlopers may be readily identified and scrub discipline maintained.