At May's Design in Mental Health 2015 show Safehinge launched its new Symphony doorset 'package' – 'a fully coordinated door safety system for mental health and dementia care'.
To create a fully compliant, comprehensive doorset ‘package’, Safehinge says it ‘quickly recognised that a partnership with experts was needed’. It thus worked with other manufacturers, such as Primera, Vistamatic, DORMA, and Lorient, ‘to create a a co-ordinated kit of parts that is antiligature, anti-barricade, and robust enough to survive user abuse’.
Symphony Doorsets include pre-specified doors and ironmongery specifications for mental health and dementia bedrooms and corridor doors. The company said: “Each component was carefully selected based on the specific challenges the user presents. For example, there is the SUREclose Freeswing door closer with no resistance for elderly users, or the super-quick, secure collapsible door stop – SWIFTstop – for mental health.”
Safehinge says the Symphony doorset ‘package’ also ‘carefully addresses how products look and are perceived, via the use of homely, non-institutional aesthetics’. This includes the option of timber finishes for everything but the handle, while a metal vision panel bead offers ‘the robustness of metal, with the aesthetics of timber’.
A recently launched tamper-proof acoustic threshold, described as ‘another first for the mental health market’, is designed to ‘make rooms more peaceful, ensuring that one person is not able to disrupt a full ward, and offering much needed privacy’.
The Symphony Doorset package is co-ordinated by Safehinge, but can be procured as a complete doorset through local doorset and ironmongery suppliers.