NEWS Full-door ligature alarm developed


Recognising that while doortop alarms are a key means of alerting clinical staff to ligature attempts made on the top of bedroom doors, service-users can still find other ligature points – such as the door latch – Safehinge Primera has launched what it dubs a ‘full-door ligature alarm’. The door hardware specialist says the device ‘turns the entire door into a large weighing scale’, sending an alert to the control panel at the nearest nurses’ station when a ligature has been attempted anywhere on the door. The full-door alarm detects any abnormal vertical loads (including upward weight applied to the bottom of the door), and ‘intelligently filters out’ false alarms (such as a towel hung on the door to dry.) All of this is built into the door, with the only visible fixture a small panel on the side of the door used for maintenance – ‘demonstrating that safety doesn’t have to be institutional’. The company added: “With 46 per cent of ligatures occurring on doors in mental health inpatient environments


University of Manchester, March 2015), the bedroom remains the highest risk area. “When we developed our award-


(Department of Health Safety Alert EFA 2018-005, 2018), selecting the right doors is one of the single most important decisions made, and with 91 per cent of inpatient suicides occurring under intermittent observations (National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness,


winning en-suite door, we thought we’d addressed the biggest unsupervised risk within the bedroom. However, during a demonstration to a Trust, a Clinical director pointed out that we’d simply moved the risk to the bedroom door. Doortop alarms are widely used in mental healthcare to alert clinical staff to ligature attempts made on the top of the bedroom door. A noticeable metal strip across the doortop, they are institutional by design, but, most importantly, don’t address all the risk points. For example, a service-user can still attach something to the door latch and thus create a ligature – the reason for a recent National Safety Alert. To alert clinical staff of suicide attempts or ligature learning, an alarm needs to be able to detect any abnormal load on any part of the door; that’s how we came to develop our full-door ligature alarm.”


Pinpoint adds temperature screening solution to portfolio


Pinpoint, the developer of personal staff attack alarm systems, has added a Temperature Screening Solution to its security integration product portfolio that it says ‘works seamlessly’ with Pinpoint systems.


It said: “Temperature screening can assist with fever screening by detecting elevated body temperatures in substantial groups of people, in under one second, with an accuracy of ±0.3˚C, and is thus is an ideal solution for the medical and educational environments and any other required security check points/entrances.”


The Pinpoint Temperature Screening Solution features a dual lens, fixed bullet camera, and black body, and ‘provides an all-in-one solution’ for capturing video surveillance for indoor


and outdoor applications. Developed for protection, fever detection, and virus prevention, in a variety of workplace environments, the thermal camera provides: l Multi-person detection of up to 30 people for greater efficiency.


l A ‘safe and contactless’ method of measurement.


l ‘800% more efficiency in temperature monitoring over person-to-person testing’.


l Intelligent detection – measurement is still accurate if the individual’s face is obscured.


l Flexible and easy deployment. l Operates either in standalone form or with a network video recorder for high quality recording and analytical purposes.


l Alarm notifications if/when certain temperature thresholds are exceeded.


l Integration with the Pinpoint system, ‘creating a full security network for any building’.


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