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Design in Mental Health Network (DIMHN) has a simple goal—to make mental health environments better for patient recovery and safer for staff. The Network has spent the past 5 years developing a series of testing methods specifically for the challenges behavioral health patients present.
This webinar will discuss some of the common challenges witnessed and used to develop the testing methods – with a focus on ligature performance and robustness. Hear about their learnings about doors and windows which feature so highly with sentinel events that they needed their own category of testing. Review key areas of risk within mental health environments and lessons learned about managing risk in reality.
DIMHN’s ultimate goal with the development of the testing guidance is for better product decisions that will help create better recovery environments for patients and staff to work in. They hope this test regime will facilitate existing and new suppliers to the sector innovate in a more focused manner, creating more suitable products.
There will be learning points and takeaways from this discussion that help your current assessment of products and a view for how these testing methods could be translated in other countries, if needed in the future.
Managing risk: Understand the limits of relying on the built environment.
Ligature: Observe the ingenuity employed and how to assess these determined efforts.
Robustness: Apply audible and stealth attacks.
Doors and windows: Learn why these items needed their own test category and the challenges they present.
Design in Mental Health Network (DIMHN) is a UK based not-for-profit, established in 2006 and is open to anyone with an interest in improving the design of mental health environments for the benefit of patients’ wellbeing and staff safety.
Philip Ross joined the DIMHN board in 2013, working initially on the members’ scheme and then moving to the Testing and Innovation workstream in 2015. As a manufacturer specialising on doors and hardware within the mental health sector, he was frustrated with the lack of clarity and repeatability of the testing methods which made it challenging and slow for lifesaving innovations to get adopted, not to mention the significant costs of testing with every Healthcare System, sometimes for each project they worked on. Philip has a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, and years of experience testing doors and hardware, at Safehinge Primera, where he serves in the role of Director having founded the design company in 2007.
Over the past three years, he’s worked with BRE (Building Research Establishment) in the United Kingdom to establish the testing development partnership, and with a small working group to develop the overall approach and format of the testing and accreditation output. In the summer of 2018, the board sought input from across the sector with architects, facility managers, clinicians and manufacturers on what issues need capturing by product evaluation. His focus is now on delivering the final testing guidance and establishing an accreditation scheme with BRE before the end of 2019.
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Many attendees of The Center for Health Design’s Webinars have inquired about IDCEC approval so they can earn ASID, IIDA, and IDS CEU’s. We have looked into this and unfortunately, the cost to upload courses to IDCEC is simply too high at this time. You can still earn credit for attending our webinars by requesting a verification certificate. Please contact Natalie Gonzalez, Project Manager, ngonzalez@healthdesign.org
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