A hospital locker is a small box or cabinet that can be locked, especially one at a public place for the safekeeping of clothing and valuables. A hospital locker is an upright, cupboard like repository with shelves, drawers, or compartments for the safekeeping or display of objects.

Lockers and cabinets are very essential in any hospital. Whether, it is in the patient's room or in the common room of the doctors or in the operation theater or in the chemist shop, cabinets and lockers are important items of furniture. Both cabinet and locker serves the same purpose: to store safely essential belongings. While the hospital locker is used for storing mainly cash, valuables, clothes, a hospital cabinet being bigger in size is used for keeping clothes in th patient's room or files in the office room or medical instruments and equipments in the operation theater and store room or medicines in the chemist shop and so on.

The locker is made of various materials like wood, steel, iron, aluminum etc. The most common type of locker is metal. The metallic cabinet or the locker can be painted or powder coated like epoxy coating, nylon coating, polyester coating etc. The wooden cabinet or the locker can be of various types of wood like plywood, teak, timber, oakwood, veneer etc. The wooden cabinet or locker have different kind of finishes. There are five common types of wood finishes given on the cabinet like Oil, Varnish and Polyurethane, Shellac, Lacquer, Water-based Finishes. All hospital lockers come with inbuilt lock system. The hospital locker can also be made of electrolytic galvanize sheet, all plastic resin coated body.