Key Features & Benefits
• Patient Protection
Designed to safeguard tenants and patients by eliminating tampering and ligature risks.
• Enhanced Durability
Extends the lifespan of media and entertainment control systems by providing robust protection.
• Effortless Maintenance
Allows staff to access internal components easily for cleaning or servicing without compromising security.
Advanced Design & Construction
Our enclosures set the standard for security and durability:
• Removable, Locking Panel: Each enclosure includes a fully removable, locking panel for secure maintenance access.
• Clear Viewing Window: Equipped with a 3/8″ polycarbonate (Lexan) viewing panel for strength and visibility.
• Optimized Ventilation: Features a thermostatic fan layout tailored to the television size for proper airflow and performance.
• Preserves Seal Integrity: Maintenance access is designed to retain the integrity of the pick-proof caulking.
Compliance & Durability
Our enclosures comply with New York State OMH ligature-resistant specifications, ensuring tamper resistance, restricted access, and no ligature points. Built to withstand the harshest environments, each enclosure features:
• Material: 14-gauge cold-rolled steel for superior strength.
• Finish: Powder-coated with a low-gloss, matte white for durability and a professional appearance.
• Maintenance Access: With the use of multiple keys, staff can remove the access panel to expose all media and entertainment components for cleaning or servicing. This process is completed seamlessly without disturbing the pick-proof caulking.
Turnkey Solutions
At Arsco, we deliver a seamless end-to-end experience, including measuring, design, fabrication, and installation, to meet your unique project requirements quickly and efficiently. All products are custom-made to order in the USA, ensuring the highest quality standards.
What We Offer:
• Custom project quotes available within 24 hours.
• No mandatory measuring or installation services—flexibility to fit your needs.
• A 1-year warranty covering materials and workmanship.
OFFERINGS & OPTIONS
• Customizable configurations to accommodate any television size and model, including options for additional media equipment.
• Designed to integrate seamlessly with all types of adjacent installations or workspaces.”
DESIGN VARIATIONS
• Horizontal surface mount
• Vertical surface mount
• Horizontal recessed mount
• Vertical recessed mount”
Partner with Arsco Custom Metals
With nationwide service, Arsco has become a trusted name for ligature-resistant enclosures tailored for behavioral health and institutional facilities. Let us help you create safer spaces with solutions that prioritize protection, compliance, and longevity.
Contact us today to discuss your project and get your custom quote!
Anti-Ligature TV Enclosures: Protect Patients While Maintaining Entertainment Access
Arsco Custom Metals designs and manufactures anti-ligature TV enclosures purpose-built for behavioral health facilities, mental health units, correctional facilities, emergency departments, and other high-risk institutional care environments. Every enclosure is custom-made to order in the USA, engineered to eliminate ligature risk while preserving full viewing access for patients and straightforward operation for staff.
The Need for Anti-Ligature TV Enclosures
Standard television mounts and digital display installations are not designed for behavioral health or correctional environments. Exposed mounting hardware, accessible edges, and conventional enclosure designs all create ligature risk in patient rooms and common areas where at-risk individuals are present.
A properly designed anti-ligature TV enclosure eliminates these risks entirely. Every protruding element, accessible edge, and exposed fastener is engineered out of the product, leaving a secure TV housing that protects both the display and the patient without restricting the viewing experience. In behavioral health units and correctional facilities, this is not an optional upgrade. It is a fundamental requirement of a safe care environment.
Behavioral health facilities are subject to ligature resistance requirements from the Joint Commission, which evaluates the full environment of care, including patient room television installations. Specifying ligature-resistant protective TV enclosures is an essential step in meeting those requirements and protecting the facility from the liability exposure that inadequate security measures create. To understand the broader design principles behind these requirements, read our guide on what ligature resistance is and why it matters for your facility.
Arsco Anti-Ligature TV Enclosures: Engineered for Every Installation
Arsco manufactures ligature TV enclosures in both horizontal and vertical surface-mounted configurations, in heavy-gauge steel finished with durable powder coat, to meet the performance and aesthetic requirements of behavioral health facilities and correctional environments.
Sloped Top Design
Arsco anti-ligature TV enclosures feature a sloped top as standard, eliminating the flat horizontal surface that conventional enclosures leave exposed as a ligature anchor point. The sloped top configuration is the most widely specified design in behavioral health facilities and correctional settings where ligature risk reduction is the governing design priority.
Secure Mounting and Ventilation
Every Arsco TV enclosure is surface-mounted with tamper-resistant fasteners, providing a secure TV housing that cannot be dislodged or manipulated by patients. Ventilation is integrated directly into the enclosure design, maintaining safe operating temperatures for the display without introducing the gaps or grille openings that create ligature equipment risk in standard protective TV housings. This means facilities never have to choose between patient safety and reliable display performance.
Multiple Variants and Custom Sizing
Arsco manufactures anti-ligature TV enclosures in multiple variants to accommodate different display sizes and room configurations. Custom dimensions are available for facilities with non-standard display installations or renovation projects with existing infrastructure constraints. Our team can work directly from your drawings or develop the solution from a field measurement.
Who Specifies Arsco Anti-Ligature TV Enclosures
Arsco ligature TV enclosures are specified across the full range of institutional environments where patient safety is the governing design priority.
Psychiatric hospitals and behavioral health units specify anti-ligature TV enclosures for every patient room and common area television installation, as part of a comprehensive approach to eliminating ligature risk throughout the care environment. Emergency departments and crisis centers are increasingly specifying ligature-resistant protective TV enclosures as behavioral health patient volumes grow and the environment of care standards are applied more broadly. Correctional facilities specify secure TV housings that meet the same rigorous ligature-resistant standards required in behavioral health settings, with the added requirement that products resist intentional physical abuse and tampering.
Full-Service Project Support from Arsco
Arsco supports the complete process from field verification and design through fabrication, delivery, and professional installation. Our travel team works directly on-site across the country, ensuring every custom project is executed accurately and on schedule from start to finish. When one team manages measuring, fabrication, and installation, the coordination gaps that lead to costly errors and project delays are eliminated before they start.
Arsco anti-ligature TV enclosures are part of a comprehensive ligature-resistant product line that includes the anti-ligature HVAC cover, thermostat enclosures, finned tube covers, control enclosures, and more, so every system in your facility meets the same standard of safety and precision craftsmanship.