In secure healthcare facilities we focus on the principles of good lighting, safety, design, robust construction and easy maintenance.
Typical Applications – Secure Health
Bedrooms and En-Suites
Although not the main site for treatment, the bedrooms serve as a comforting haven for service users, akin to a home away from home, offering refuge during their journey to recovery.
Corridors and Circulation Spaces
Corridors serve as the essential infrastructure of a secure healthcare facility, connecting residential and treatment areas for both individuals and services.
Therapy Rooms
Light can set the tone for a therapy session in therapy rooms. Flexible lighting, with a variable colour temperature can boost activity or create a relaxing environment. The use of colour can also be beneficial.
Communal Areas
Effective lighting in communal spaces should exude a warm and inviting ambiance, fostering a sense of comfort and encouraging service users to engage socially in an appealing and attractive communal setting.
Nurse Stations
Nurse stations are often the central hub of a secure health facility as it is operational 24/7. Tasks can vary considerably, from screen and paper based through to face to face discussions with colleagues and visitors.
De-escalation Rooms
The aim of de-escalation “calming” rooms is to allow the service user to enter an area where they can de-escalate from their current emotional state. This safe place reduces the chance of physical injury to both themselves and others.
Exercise and Activity Areas
Individuals with severe mental illness often engage in significantly less amounts of physical activity than the general population.
Ancillary Areas
Ancillary Areas are crucial for the smooth functioning of a secure healthcare facility. Lighting should prioritise practicality, given the wide range of activities that take place.
Exterior and Perimeter
External lighting can be fully exposed to the elements, making high IP rated luminaires essential. It is therefore particularly important that lighting is especially robust and requires little in the way of maintenance.
Core Lighting Requirements For The Secure Health Sector
Our luminaires are designed to withstand attack and to reduce the possibility of attaching ligatures. We design these features into our fittings from the outset by carefully developing the form of the product, selecting the most appropriate materials and minimising the gaps between components.
Ligature Resistance Testing
We conduct Ligature Resistant Tests to ensure our products’ durability and safety for service users in custodial or secure health environments.
Test samples include strips of material or wires of various thicknesses used to attempt looping around the product. Additionally, we try to insert various items into any gaps in the product, such as keys, pieces of plastic cutlery, and credit cards (used alone or with other materials like shoelaces) to create ligature anchors.
If a potential anchor point is identified, we perform a test to measure the angle and load it can support before the anchor releases.
Best Practice Lighting Guide for Secure Healthcare
Our lighting guide identifies typical applications, focusing on the principles of good lighting. We examine the benefits of safety, robust construction, easy maintenance and design. To download your copy click on the button below.
CPD Seminars
We offer CIBSE accredited CPD seminars, available face to face or online. Topics include robust lighting, emergency lighting for challenging environments, lighting: the retrofit revolution and sustainable lighting for railway stations of the future.
Antibacterial Coating
We are pleased to announce that we now supply optional antibacterial paint to help aid infection control measures in a secure health facility.
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