I saw this on the Screwfix website
What does it mean - the only ligatures I know are used to strangle people or to tie-off blood vessels during surgery!!
Is it some sort of wire saw that could be threaded round other hinges and used to cut through them!?
Anti-ligature door fittings are designed to prevent people using them as a purchase for a ligature for self strangulation. For use in areas such as cells. Most hardware suppliers stock a range.
I'm not seeing how that solves the ligature problem with ordinary hinges.
NT
They have sloping end caps.
I noticed. I'm not seeing how that solves the ligature problem with ordinary hinges. The only way I'm seeing to ligature yourself is to pass the rope over the whole hinge, and back under it - something these do nothing to address.
NT
No, it is enough to hang some fabric over the swivel part of the hinge, apparently.
All the prison cell doors I have seen (as an independent custody visitor!) open outwards. That means that the swivel part of the hinge is on the outside of the door, in the corridor, and not a ligature risk.
I am sure Adam can advise us further...
and there was i thinking it was one that had a square pin.. grin.
IE a non hinge.. Brian
And the door cannot be barricaded closed from inside the cell.
Owain
When on the inside of an inward opening closed and locked door - the only bit that protrudes into the room is the barrel of the hinge.
I've looked at standard door hinges, and see nothing one could hang fabric over. I'm just glad I dont need to contemplate such things.
NT
With a standard hinge, the "barrel" part of the hinge, which surrounds the hinge-pin and protudes into the room when the door is shut, is enough to hang a ligature on.
The local hospital had a case a while back where a patient managed to hang themselves using the lead from their earphones (such things are not banned for patients who are thought to be low-risk). IIRC he managed to hang himself by trapping the wire between door and frame at fairly low level and hanged himself in a sitting position.
SteveW
Used, along with anti ligature handles & doors that open in or out in mental facilities where there is a suicide risk.
Can't tie a rope etc to them & can't barricade the door.
Door has to be open for that.
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