Anti-Ligature Lighting
Discover anti-ligature lighting designed to maximise safe, compliant and durable environments in mental health, custodial settings and secure facilities.
Supporting Wellbeing in Secure Environments
Lighting affects more than just what we see. In secure environments, lighting should support both safety and therapeutic recovery. At Light Years Ahead, our luminaires are specifically developed to help avoid opportunities for self-harm, while maintaining a calm, reassuring presence in the room. Every fitting is engineered with anti-ligature principles, avoiding points where cords or materials might be secured.
To ensure patient safety, our luminaires have been tested to provide very high levels of protection against self-harm or suicide attempts for service users. Our anti-ligature and robustness test ratings are provided to support clinicians in choosing the right product and assessing the safety of a product.
Anti-Ligature Lighting Principles
We believe that ligature-resistance should never compromise the aesthetic or therapeutic quality of a space. Our lighting products are developed to support wellbeing by offering aesthetic designs, circadian support and are suitable for use in both high-risk and recovery-oriented environments.
Durability by design
Manufactured to withstand demanding environments with IK10+ impact ratings for lasting protection.
Engineered for safety
Engineered with smooth contours and secure fixings to prevent ligature points and unauthorised access.
Smart lighting, built to last
Designed for reliability with sealed housings, efficient LED technology and minimal maintenance requirements.
Anti-Ligature Testing
Our Anti-Ligature rating scale outlines our ligature grading system which has been used to test our mental healthcare lighting product range to ensure service user safety. This approach recognises the spectrum of clinical risk that exists in different care settings. This ensures clinicians, estates teams and specifiers can make appropriate product selections tailored to individual service user needs and levels of therapeutic support.
Our anti-ligature luminaires have been extensively tested, assessed and classified according to varying levels of risk. This is based on how possible it would be to obtain the tools to form a ligature anchor point and how effectively the product’s design resists different forms of attack. We’ve tested our lighting range extensively to assess and categorise them into different risk levels by evaluating ligature performance using cord diameter and weight.
Lighting Designed for Safety and Compliance
