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Issue Brief

Reducing Injury and Harm: Safety for Behavioral & Mental Health
February 2019 ∘ Issue Brief

As part of the safety toolbox, in this issue brief you will learn about the importance of recognizing the presence of behavioral and mental health patients throughout a facility, the conditions of both self-harm and harm to others, including staff, and design considerations to mitigate the risk of injury associated with behavioral and mental health populations.
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Design Strategies

Reducing Injury and Harm in Behavioral & Mental Health Settings
February 2019 ∘ Design Strategies

The following design solutions are a brief summary of the content found in Reducing Injury and Harm: An Issue Brief on Safety for Behavioral & Mental Health. They are organized by building design category.
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Tool

Injury in Behavioral & Mental Health Settings: A Safety Risk Assessment Roadmap

February 2019 ∘ Tool

The following table provides a crosswalk of design categories in the built environment (e.g., unit layout) and safety issues to consider in behavioral and mental health settings (e.g., blind spots). This table is meant to serve as a high-level roadmap for design considerations in conjunction with the online Safety Risk Assessment (SRA) toolkit (www.healthdesign.org/sra). It is not intended to serve as a substitute for the online version of the SRA tool.

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