Guardian Staff Safety Systems manufactures call alarms and staff attack systems for service-users and staff that ‘exceed NHS and Home Office requirements’, and are widely used by NHS Trusts and private healthcare providers UK-wide.
Applications include mental health units, hospitals, care homes, custody centres, primary care centres, surgeries, and many more sites requiring staff protection.
The company’s development programme has been driven ‘by a combination of the continuing advances in technology and customers’ needs’. It said: “Many of the features which a Guardian system provides were incorporated in response to requests from clients seeking solutions to particular issues – the Design in Mental Health Network being a good example. A number of these features will form part of our exhibition display.”
Pictured is a ‘ligature-proof, mushroom push button’ with integral reassurance LED, said to be ‘perfect for users with disabilities or arthritic conditions because the user can use any part of their limb to push the button’.
Available in a variety of colours, it is ‘ideal for dementia patients, who prefer specific coloured pushes’.
