Technology: Safe and secure
Claimed to be a leap forward in healthcare fenestration, the award winning Safevent window allows patients and staff in a secure environment to fully open a window in complete safety with no restrictions, allowing maximum natural ventilation. It not only has the potential to save lives with its anti-ligature properties, but also to improve the lives of the patients and staff in facilities that use it.
Installed in over 100 acute and secure projects for 20 NHS trusts and six private hospital companies in the UK, Safevent is a low maintenance window with no locks or hinges and self-cleaning glass, featuring a double fronted horizontal sliding window, and a see-through fly mesh permanently secured into the frame – this covers the opening half of the window.
 Constructed of a solid sheet of stainless steel perforated with 2mm holes, Safevent prevents entry or escape (even when fully open), is anti-ligature, prevents the passing of contraband and the littering of outside areas, allows the patient full control of their environment without supervision (no locks, no keys), is easily operated by frail patients and prevents insects or vermin from entering a building. A full anti-bacterial model and an electronic model that can be controlled thermostatically, by timer, by remote, or centrally from a nurses station are also available.
Safevent is also capable of significantly reducing a hospital’s carbon footprint by decreasing reliance on mechanical ventilation. Rathbone Hospital saved £250,000 in 2006 when the planned air conditioning was deemed unnecessary due to the inclusion of Safevent windows.
Mental health consultant Jenny Gill said: “As a mental health capital planner, the Safevent window offers a revolutionary solution to the issues of safety, security, privacy and dignity.”
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