How Could Hotels Be Made Safer? Preventing Accidents, Balcony Dangers, Suicides, Windows.

Yet another fall from a hotel. Even one a year is one too many. From balconies and windows. How could this be prevented?

Let's just think outside the box. Every idea which pops up, in case one which seems far-fetched, or is linked to another, proves to be the solution.

1 Seal all windows of high rise hotels. As was done in San Francisco.

2 Have obligatory barriers on balconies, of glass or bars, as is required in Singapore for owners of cats. (To protect the cats. Plus people the cats might fall on.)

3 Design stepped patio gardens, like pyramids. This was done for Habitat in Canada, way back in 1967 at the Montreal exhibition. 

Picture from Wikipedia.

4 Students, stag parties, and anybody with a history of taking drugs or alcoholism should be confined to ground floor pods, like the Dyson pods.

5 Student suicides were reduced to zero by Viktor Frankl in Austria way back before WW2.

6 Soft Landings. Awnings. Cushioning. Slides (as fire escapes). Soft playground type ground nowadays placed around slides, rubber mulch. Earth instead of concrete. Soft trees and bushes and plants. Hammocks. 

Picture from Wikipedia.

Useful websites

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14753909/Young-Brit-fights-life-plunging-Spanish-hotel-balcony-friends-quizzed-police.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14757197/British-boy-eight-suffers-severe-brain-injury-falling-floor-balcony-Ibiza.html

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