Design for Safer Living
We listen and observe to understand your challenges
with doors and the wider built environment.
Together with you, our front-line team and design engineers
develop products that provide unrivaled safety and robustness
while supporting therapeutic design.
Anti-Barricade & Ligature-Resistant Safety Door Sets
Working with Behavioral Healthcare organizations, we provide doorsets that balance safety needs with aesthetics and function that supports patient recovery.
Product highlights:
- Award-winning Ligature-Resistant Bathroom Door
- Unique Full-Door Ligature Alarm Sensor
- Market-leading Anti-Barricade Doorset (Swiftstop)
Read our Pen Highlands Dubois Case Study
Full-Door Ligature Alarm
We have created the world’s first and only full-door ligature alarm system for behavioral health environments, which detects ligature attempts across the entire door.
53% of suicides within inpatient behavioral health environments involved a door.
Our anti-barricade door sets include a wireless full-door alarm. We’ve turned the entire door into a weighing scale that detects vertical loads over 11 pounds.
Ligature-Resistant Bathroom Door
A secure door that resists ligature has been created through collaboration with design specialists and medical professionals from various parts of North America.
Our ligature-resistant bathroom door recently became the first to be approved by the behavioral health design guide trifecta:
Specifically designed for behavioral health patient bathrooms, our solution can promote safety within behavioral health hospital rooms while also preserving the privacy and dignity of patients during their journey toward recovery.
Try our Door Designer Tool
We have a wide range of doors with different technical and aesthetic options for clients to select, discovering the perfect door for their project and scenario. Review our wide selection of doors and find the best option using a new Safehinge Primera door set configurator interactive tool.
Why work with Safehinge Primera?
Richard Nenneau, VP of Behavioral Health, Penn Highlands Healthcare
"A reliable, ligature-resistant solution was the key for us. The overall design of the bathroom door is impressive, from colour choices to build. The research behind the solution and the fact that it has been well thought through, rigorously tested, and proven to work on other sites made it stand out to us."
Dr Barbara Vann, Chair, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
"The feeling you have in this building is that this is somewhere that is safe, comfortable, and pays attention to my well-being and mental health."
Bob Anderson, Senior Architect, Dundee City Council
“We wanted a durable finger guard that also looked good and could be integrated into the building design. The impact from wheelchairs and trolleys can cause damage to building fabric. We found retrofit plastic and fabric finger guards unattractive, bulky and shorter life - information provided suggests a lifespan as low as 6 – 12 months. We were keen to avoid unnecessary maintenance costs”.
Rodney Van Nest, Chief Operating Officer of Appalachian Behavioral Health
"Patients love the privacy the en-suite doors provide versus the shower curtain they had before, and the staff really love them."
Awards & Accolades
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2022Design in Mental Health Product Concept Innovation Award for Older People Door with Full-Door Ligature Alarm
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2022
GOLD at the Nightingale Awards (Healthcare Design Expo & Conference) for Anti-Barricade Doorset
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2021
CHAS Accreditation
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2020
Design innovation for quality improvement Award (European Healthcare Design) for Full-Door Ligature Alarm with Online Status Monitoring
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2018
Design in Mental Health for Product Innovation of the Year
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2017
Design In Mental Health Product Innovation Award for Full-Door Ligature Alarm
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2016
Design in Mental Health Product Innovation Award for Anti-Ligature En-suite Door
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2014
Design in Mental Health Product Innovation Award for Swiftstop Anti-Barricade Doorset
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2014
BBH Building Better Healthcare Award for "Best Product Improving the Patient Experience”
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2014
Glasgow Business Awards - Innovation Award
Pen Highlands Dubois
Penn Highlands DuBois has a long-known history of delivering expert health and wellness care to their local community. The organization earned a reputation for innovative therapies and modern facilities. While researching an anti-ligature door solution for the newly built mental health facility, they've considered several options. Find out why they've selected our product.
Medical City
With over 90 years of healthcare service for residents of McKinney and northern Collin County, Medical City is now a comprehensive care hospital with 260 beds, offering a variety of services including cardiovascular, neurological services, and general surgery. They got in touch with us to discuss a major refurbishment and we're delighted to have supplied over 50 of our bathroom doors.
St Peters Health Center
St. Peters Health is a hospital that aims to provide the best health and compassionate care for people and the community. They approached us in need of a bathroom door that fit this vision; that’s why we suggested our safer bathroom doors for behavioral health bedrooms. Our bathroom doors were fitted throughout wards, with feedback being extremely positive.
WE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU!
At Safehinge Primera, our door is always open to innovative ideas and fruitful feedback.
You can reach us on the following:
t: +1 617. 898. 0700
e: inquiries@safehingeprimera.com
Alternatively, you can arrange for one of our team to give you a call back at a time that works for you:
