DiMH 2022 PREVIEW


High-security, ligature-resistant sanitaryware


Acknowledging that designing sanitaryware for mental health and high- security environments can be a challenge, Franke Water Systems says the Safe- ensuite range from KWC DVS, which will feature in Coventry, ‘provides an ideal solution’.


It said: “Manufactured with GRP using


advanced technologies, the high-security, ligature-resistant, sanitaryware, basins, and accessories, are virtually unbreakable, and create a safe solution.” The range is finished with a white high-grade polyester gel coat, ‘creating a domestic and familiar feel in any mental health facility’, while the shower panels are manufactured in robust stainless steel, and available with satin polished or white finishes. There are also ligature-resistant shower heads – including wall, ceiling, or panel-mounted versions. Franke said: “The Multi-Channel control


box enables control of two en-suites from one control box. Tactile buttons, or wave-


Protection in vulnerable times


on sensors within the bathrooms, can be configured and externally controlled using the Handheld Programmer. Installation is simple, with an easy-to-access removable wiring platform, while a fully hinged front cover allows full access to the sensor and valve plugs.” For monitoring water temperatures,


Inform is ‘a highly intelligent digital solution that monitors, maintains, and reports on, all data on assets within a building’.


Tap developed with the UK care market


Hotspot Titanium, a specialist manufacturer of boiling water taps and appliances, says it has ‘built a reputation for delivering pioneering new solutions and outstanding outcomes for the people we work with’. It said: “How did we manage to do


that? We just carefully listened to the people behind the businesses and organisations we work together with.” In Coventry the company will


introduce the newest addition to its ‘Caring family’: QURA – a tap specially developed working with the UK care market. It said: “QURA is a hot controlled and chilled water tap, available in a stainless steel finish, that can be easily retrofitted or newly placed in any environment in need of special safety requirements. With QURA, safety comes


Wardrobe expands ‘award-winning’ Ryno range


Pineapple, a manufacturer of furniture for challenging environments, will unveil a new ‘reduced-ligature’ wardrobe, part of its award-winning Ryno range


of ‘products designed to be extremely safe and durable in mental health environments’. It said: “Conventional cabinetry usually


consists of wood-based panels joined together with fixings and adhesive. While the faces of the products offer a degree of water resistance, the joints are particularly susceptible to water damage – either through regular cleaning, or bodily fluids.” Each Ryno furniture item is made from a single piece of rotationally moulded polyethylene, with no joints for fluid to enter, and the material is resistant to long- term exposure to water. Ryno products


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can be thoroughly cleaned with a bleach solution, and quickly dried, ready for re-use. The furniture specialist said: “Wardrobes typically feature hinges and handles, which both pose ligature risks, and even the top of a wardrobe door may be used to affix a ligature. To minimise these risks, the Ryno wardrobe is designed without doors, and has a sloping top. The clothes rail has been replaced by a subtle groove, into which a cardboard coat hanger can sit. Additionally, the shelving has been designed to be stepped back, to discourage climbing.”


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first, with an ergonomically solid reduced ligature designed hot controlled and chilled dispense interface. The system was designed with meeting CQC standards in mind.”


The company says that, ‘by carefully balancing safety, privacy, dignity, and independence’, its range of doorsets is:


• Thoroughly tested to meet independent BRE ligature reduction


and robustness standards. • ‘At the forefront of digital innovation’.


• Non-institutional to help create therapeutic spaces for recovery, in partnership with arts and mental health charity, Hospital Rooms.


• Easy and non-restrictive for both patients and staff to operate.


It added: “Clinical feedback from Design in Mental Health 2017 led us to develop the world’s only full-door ligature alarm, which detects ligature attempts across the entire door in both the open and closed positions.”


“Together, we design for good – listening to experts by experience, clinicians, Estates teams, and architects, to truly understand their experiences of mental health environments, and the impact that good design can have on safety and recovery.” So says specialist in secure doorset and door component manufacture, Safehinge Primera, which adds: “With 90 per cent of inpatient suicides tragically occurring in either the patient’s bedroom or bathroom (51% of which occur using the door), we take our duty of care seriously, and design the safest doorsets that help to protect people through vulnerable times.”


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