NEWS COVER STORY Safety shouldn’t equal ‘institutional’
When designing products for mental health environments, safety sits at the top of the priority list. Safe spaces lay the foundations for recovery, but too often it’s perceived that once these foundations are laid, the responsibility is passed on – without consideration of how they support the wider recovery environment.
The en-suite door is a crucial product within patients’ bedrooms. With 51% of ligature-based suicides occurring on doors, it needs to be fundamentally safe. We know that it’s impossible to eliminate ligature risk from a regular looking door – given that any two hard surfaces can create a ligature point. That’s why the en-suite door you see on the front cover is not a regular-looking door.
The Safehinge Primera load release en-suite door, which has recently been further improved based on customer feedback, simply detaches when a weight of 5 kg or more is applied. After rigorous testing and more than 3000 supplied worldwide, with
no reported suicides, it’s the safest option. We don’t stop at physical safety, however. The leaf design allows for head and feet checks during observations; considering patients’ privacy and dignity. At Design in Mental Health 2021 last August, we also launched our partnership with arts and mental health charity, Hospital Rooms. Art has the power to transform and humanise any harsh clinical environment, so it gives us great pride to be collaborating with Hospital Rooms. By printing original Hospital Rooms artworks onto our award-winning en-suite doors (such as Flags & Flares by Tim A Shaw in the cover image for this issue
of The Network), we’re building on the foundations of physical safety with pillars of psychological safety including expression, choice, and creativity. Safety shouldn’t equal institutional.
Safehinge Primera, Speirs Wharf, Glasgow G4 9TH T: 0330 058 0988; E:
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Delivering on both looks and performance
Flooring manufacturer, Gerflor, has added a new range to its ‘already highly acclaimed’ Mipolam ‘legacy collection’ of homogeneous flooring.
The company said: “The Mipolam Planet range is a fully flexible, healthy, and sustainable homogeneous flooring innovation, perfect for superior specifications in a vast array of commercial high-end traffic areas. It is ideally suited to busy healthcare and education applications, as well as many other contract hard-working markets.”
Nav Dhillon, Marketing manager, Gerflor UK, commented: “This brand new addition to Gerflor’s Mipolam legacy collection enables specifiers to create inspiring interiors that deliver on both looks and performance. The new Mipolam Planet range now also offers Mipolam BioPlanet, which is made up of 17 per cent organic materials.”
In ‘addressing the most rigorous of industry applications’, the Mipolam Planet range is also complemented by a series of ESD EL7/EL5 solutions that provide both
static-dissipative and static-conductive floors that meet all ESD control standards. The range comes with an R9 slip resistance rating as standard, with an R10 option available on request.
Move to ‘digital only’ issues three times a year is planned
In line with the NHS’s ambition to be the world’s first Net Zero national health service, the Design in Mental Health Network has decided to move from publishing both printed and digital copies of The Network four times per year, to producing three ‘digital only’ copies of the magazine, and one pre-conference printed and digital issue, each year, from May 2022. While quality, content, and
tone will all be maintained, the move will reduce printing costs, and the cost and associated carbon emissions of posting out four printed editions annually. DiMHN Chair, Philip Ross, elaborated: “With many of our readers employed within the NHS, and our advertisers supplying NHS mental healthcare facilities, the DiMHN wants to play its part in supporting the service‘s Net Zero commitments via
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meaningful action. From the summer edition this year therefore, to reduce the DiMHN’s contribution to carbon emissions, The Network will be published in ‘digital only’ format three times per year, in February, August, and November, with a printed/and digital edition published prior to the annual conference each May. Advertisers and authors will be able to enhance the
reach of their subject matter by including website links and embedded video content, all of which can continue to develop over time with the use of future technologies.” Step Communications, the publisher of The Network, said: “As a responsible magazine publisher, we are already taking concerted steps to ensure that our activities are as sustainable as possible – for instance we
use FSC-certified material for all our publications, while all printed copies of our portfolio of well-established and respected industry publications are mailed out to readers in compostable outer wraps. Like the DiMHN, we have a keen and watchful eye on our obligations as a business to minimise our carbon footprint in whatever ways we can.”
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