Basic Anti-ligature Security Fixtures

If you are designing a mental health care facility, a jail, or a prison, you have to proactively minimize the likelihood of attempted suicide or weapons manufacture.  In situations where people are mentally unstable or caged and frustrated, the likelihood for harm to self or others rises.  Anti-ligature security fixtures that minimize these risks are necessary for washroom and shower design.  

So what are anti-ligature security fixtures exactly?

In our inventory, anti-ligature security fixtures include any toilet, lavatory, shower, or combination washroom fixture that is installed in a cell or a patient care room.

 Features of anti-ligature security fixtures include, but are not limited to, the following design characteristics:

• Vandal resistance to permanent destruction of the unit
• Vandal resistance to the unit being ripped out of the wall
• Absence of removable components that can be turned into weapons
• Rounded edges that offer to leverage point for hanging
• Breakaway components that collapse under the weight of a patient or inmate attempting a hanging
• Absence of rough edges that could be used for self-cutting or attempted suicide.
• Water and drainage control designs that prevent patients or inmates from clogging the fixture and flooding the cell or the patient care room.

These security anti-ligature plumbing fixtures are made from stainless steel that is super vandal resistant.  They are designed in a variety of mounting and plumbing configurations that accommodate the unique design requirements of the following types of facilities:

• County jails
• State jails
• State prisons
• Mental health hospitals
• Mental health institutions for the criminally insane

Because such facilities are highly customized when it comes to things like overall security, space utilization, patient or inmate restrictions, and basic accommodations, anti-ligature security fixtures have to be sold as combination units in some instances, and as individual units in others.

For instance, you can buy water closet combination units that combine a toilet with a lavatory.  Or, you can purchase individual toilets and lavatories that can withstand up to 5,000 pounds of force without being permanently damaged or removed from the wall.

Shower security fixtures can be ordered in either cabinet form or wall shower design.  Wall showers are particularly cost effective to install and uniquely suited to small cells where space saving is a high priority.  Cabinet showers are available in both chase and knock down configurations and can be installed in a variety of plumbing arrays. 

XPB Lockers carries a wide variety of steel metal lockers, commercial lavatories, USPS mailboxes, and stainless steel commercial restroom equipment delivered nationwide. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-877-483-9270 and we will find it for you. Our home office is located in New Braunfels, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Miami, FL. Chicago, IL. Denver CO., El Paso, Texas, Dallas TX, San Antonio, TX, Austin, TX, Boise ID, Atlanta GA, Albuquerque NM, Raleigh-Durham NC, Washington DC, Albuquerque NM, Huntsville AL, Fayetteville AR, Norfolk VA , Madison WI., Corpus Christi, TX, Plano, Texas, Garland, TX, Laredo, Texas, Lubbock, TX, Houston, TX.