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The most affordable way to have "time-expiring" visitor badges

by Paul Kazlauskas

Schools, healthcare facilities, and businesses across America have a responsibility to maintain a secure environment. They are accountable for protecting their students, patients, staff, employees, and visitors. The need for security is becoming greater and more expensive at a time when security budgets are getting tighter and tighter. Every facility across our country is looking for their respective security budgets to be stretched as far as they could go.

Requiring your visitors to sign in is a good way to record who is, or was, in your facility at any given time. Necessitating your visitors to wear a visitor badge is a good way to identify them while they are in your facility. Applying both of these protocols is good security practice. There are affordable ways to make a basic, manual, sign-in visitor badge system more secure. To increase the security of your sign-in system, consider adding an inexpensive “time-expiring” element to your badges. Turn any visitor badge into an expiring visitor badge with Expiring Dot Sets.

To start the time-expiring process, a circular, top part dot (primarily white with a red outline) goes on a circular, back part dot (red with the word “VOID”). The dot set is then placed on a visitor badge as a low-cost way to add security. By the next day, the “VOID” image will have come thru the white, top part dot. This indicates the badge is expired and the visitor’s time at the facility is up.

Expiring Dot Sets provide flexibility. A Security Director has the option of… 1) choosing where on the visitor pass/ID card the expiration will show and 2) choosing which visitors they want to manage with an expiring visitor pass on a case-by-case basis. Security is increased with Expiring Dot Sets.

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Posted on 3/10/2015