The adherence to EIP is part of the Management System of Biological Risk in healt institutions which is integrated to the System of Safety and Health at Work. Objective: Determine the adherence to EIP of the health personnel tha twork in the area of surgery hospitalization in a IV level hospital in Bogota Methodology: Descriptive and observational cross-section quantitative study which describes theadherence to EIP in a population of 26 health workers of surgery hospitalization area. Results: 86,6% correspond to female and 15,3% to male. the predominant age group was between 20-30 years with 80%. The adherence to the use of EIP was: in the nursing assistants was 84 % to gloves and 48% to the conventional mask, in nurses was 87 % to gloves and 93% to the conventional mask, medical specialists was 50 % to gloves and 0% of the monogoggless. Conclusions: Learning, knowing and being agens of self-care make professionals be responsable of their own acts bearing in mind the risk taken without thea dherence to EIP so each person becomes a self-care agent and facilitates an appropriate, healthy and safework place.