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The Safety Checklist was developed by Dr. Atul Gawande with the intention of improving outcomes, team dynamics and patient safety in an intensive care unit of a human hospital [21]. Based on their successful implementation, in 2008 the World Health Organization (WHO) instituted the Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) as a global initiative to improve surgical safety of human patients. Since then, SSCs have become standard practice in human hospitals and are slowly being implemented in veterinary hospitals. These checklists cover introduction of surgical and anesthetic teams, identification of patient, consent, procedure to be performed, anatomical location, estimated duration of surgery, availability of equipment, and potential complications among others. Use of SSCs has assisted in prevention of potential safety hazards and errors in the operating room, and improved safety and communication among operating staff [22–24]. Their implementation has been associated with reduced morbidity, length of in‐hospital stay and mortality [25]. Sustained use of SSCs seems to be discipline‐specific and is more successful when physicians are actively engaged and leading implementation [26]. In addition, implementation of SSCs did not negatively impact the operating room efficiency, whilst reducing overall disposable costs, in a large multispecialty tertiary care human hospital [27].