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Visitor I.D.'s that your employees can really see
Monday, October 17, 2016 by Andrew Jones
One of the best-kept secrets about our visitor passes is we design them specially to be worn on clothing. This gives them an advantage for two reasons:
Our visitor badges don’t fall off.
Our visitor badges don’t harm fabric.
Every other adhesive visitor badge is made like a shipping label, to stick to cardboard cartons, not shirts, jackets and blouses. Perhaps for that reason many people still don’t like putting any kind of adhesive on their outfits, no matter how ...
Waiting is unacceptable for patients and visitors
Monday, October 10, 2016 by Andrew Jones
Visitor management solutions add security and minimize wait times.
We have all experienced having to wait a long time in a doctor’s office. That experience is compounded when the situation is an emergency. It is easy to find stories online about this problem. Just last month, a man died while waiting for treatment in a Connecticut hospital.
Yet, while reducing wait times for patients is a serious challenge for hospitals, they also have to pay attention, as part of the overall ...
How to prevent theft sooner than later
Tuesday, September 6, 2016 by Andrew Jones
Identifying visitors is a better — and quicker — deterrent than you may think, so you may not need a committee to decide on this kind of security solution.
Do you remember “The Junior Mint” episode of the television series “Seinfeld”?
Part of the story involved the character “Kramer” wandering the halls of a hospital in search of thin rubber gloves that he could wear while staining the wood in his apartment. He found the kind of ...
Who has permission to be in your building?
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 by Andrew Jones
Is he wearing a VALID badge? How can you tell?
Visitor badges that “expire” show your staff who is authorized and who is not.
At a large hospital in Hartford, Conn., a security guard perched on a stool at his post near the entrance to the maternity wing. At fifty years of age, Officer Thompson was well past his football-playing days, but, at six feet tall and over two hundred pounds, he still looked like he could handle any intruder.
As a vendor exited the double doors, ...
Visitor sign-in books back up downed computer systems
Monday, May 9, 2016 by Andrew Jones
After recent news about hackers forcing a group of hospitals to shut down its computer systems, it’s worth noting that some organizations have a backup plan for their electronic visitor management protocol.
When a virus attacks or the power goes out, people have to find another way to keep doing their jobs. Doctors and nurses rely on paper records to service their patients, and security personnel break out sign-in books to badge and track visitors and vendors.
“Fortunately, ...
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