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Hi - I'm wondering if anyone has any experiance of weighted doors in mental health settings.
These are doors which are designed to prevent ligature attempts. They have sensors on them which trigger an alarm if weight is detected.
I'm intersted in understanding if these doors change staff behavioir, i.e. do they become complacent in visual observations...and also in service user behaviour, i.e. if they know the doors will trigger, does it reduce liklihood of attenpts. If anyone working in the area has experiance of using these doors I'd be keen to hear about your experience.
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I worked in forensic MH on the fire safety side for a few years and never came across these doors. Interesting stuff
Is there any links to suppliers you could post please
Every litlle helps, as someone who is determined and has plenty of time can often find a way hrough most sucide defences
My initial fear of these would be some clients purposely activating them to get staff running about with the risk a 'cry wolf' mentality creeping is as it does so often for fire alarm activations
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