ANTI-LIGATURE COVERS FOR WALL-MOUNTED ELECTRICAL DEVICES

ABOUT MEDICAL SAFEGUARDS

Many institutions, including but in no way limited to prisons, correctional facilities, jails, hospitals, medical hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, mental health units, etc. include or are otherwise at least partially built with walls made of concrete block, or other like hard surfaces. For this, and perhaps other reasons, many of the electrical devices. such as outlets, switches, junction boxes, emergency lights, exit lights, etc., are surface-mounted or wall-mounted devices in that they are not fully recessed within the wall. This can, in some cases, create a hazardous location or surface upon which a ligature or loop can be retained, thereby resulting in injury or possibly even death to a patient, inmate or other individual within the institution. There is thus a need for an anti-ligature cover that can prevent or restrict use of the cover as a support for a ligature, loop or other like hazardous device. The proposed anti-ligature cover can replace the existing electrical (or other) covers on switches, outlets, and junction boxes mounted on the walls in institutions and elsewhere to considerably reduce the risk of harm described above.