Why a School Should Consider a Security Assessment and What to Look for When You Do.
Why a school should consider a Security Assessment and what to look for when you do. There are several reasons you should consider when investing in a School Security Assessment:
Who is Responsible for Safety and Security in Hospitals?
In a hospital environment, safety and security are shared responsibilities that involve multiple stakeholders. These include the security department, healthcare workers, contractors, vendors, patients, and visitors. Each plays a crucial
8 Affordable Security Ideas to Implement in Your Office Building
It is possible to implement affordable security strategies to manage the flow of visitors into and out of office building settings. Providers of high-tech security solutions, which seem to always
6 Questions School Administrators Should Ask Before Purchasing a Visitor Management System
School administrators should do their homework before purchasing a visitor management system to help ensure the safety of their students and staff. Ken Trump, President and CEO of the National
How to Improve Building Security by Preventing Tailgating
What does tailgating have to do with building security? The term “tailgating” derives from the practice of driving too closely behind another car. In a physical building security setting, tailgating
6 Ways to Increase the Security of Your Hospital or Healthcare Facility: Why You Need a Visitor Management System
Hospitals across the country utilize visitor management solutions to enhance their sign-in processes. As more hospitals report violent incidents, healthcare facilities must put procedures in place to protect their patients
8 Tips to Improve the Security of Your Assisted Living Facility
Security is a critical function for Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing facility operators. Residents are vulnerable to safety and privacy issues if facilities don’t manage the flow of people entering
Why Visitor Management is Essential for Healthcare Facilities
Visitor management is a crucial aspect of maintaining security and safety in healthcare facilities. These environments are unique due to their open-campus feel and the necessity to balance accessibility with
How to behave as a visitor in office buildings
Visiting an office building, whether for a meeting, interview, or any other professional engagement, calls for a certain level of decorum. Your conduct not only reflects your personal brand but can also impact the success of your visit.
What is visitor management and why is it so important?
Visitor Management is the processing, tracking, and monitoring of guests that enter a building or campus. Hospitals, schools, and business of all kinds use visitor management to protect their people and property.
Six Reasons Why Using Expiring Visitor Badges Improves Facility Security
Here are six reasons your facility should be using expiring visitor badges for better building security: 1. Visual Alert. Your visitor badges are VALID today and, after changing color overnight, VOID tomorrow. This makes it easy to spot an invalid badge.
Visitor Management Software with Flag Alert Feature Aids in Hospital Security
Imagine a bustling hospital in an urban city on a regular Friday morning. Among the stream of visitors coming in and out, there’s someone who shouldn’t be there—a person previously involved in a security incident.
What Visitor Information do I Need to Collect at My Office Building?
THRESHOLD has been designing and producing visitor badges for companies across America since 2003. Since our specialty is visitor badges and visitor management software, we’ve seen our fair share of custom ideas from customers.
Security Assessment Checklist Ideas For Healthcare Facilities
A hospital can be an emotionally charged place. Most times, patients are not happy to be there. Their family may disagree with the patient’s care, causing tension. This tension can lead to aggression. Violence in hospitals is an epidemic.
Printer Compatibility Update
Did you know the new DYMO 550 Series printers exclusively support only DYMO brand badges? Unfortunately, this means that any other brand, including THRESHOLD badges, will not be compatible with these printers.
CPTED Office Building Security Checklist
Office building security is serious business. Security Directors need to have their finger on the pulse of many aspects of building security, including its physical security, managing security personnel, maintaining quality access control, and dealing with security equipment.
7 reasons for using a Visitor Management System
Visitor management systems (VMS) are being implemented more frequently in schools, hospitals, and businesses of all kinds. While more expensive than a traditional log book, the visitor management system offers a more efficient and fool-proof sign-in process.
How to Visit Someone in the Hospital – 16 Tips From Nurses Who Know
Visiting a patient in a hospital isn’t easy. You are going to see a person who isn’t feeling their best, in a place where no one likes to be. It may be hard to find the right thing to say to make them feel better.
4 Areas Of Concern For Healthcare Facilities Considering A Visitor Management System
Healthcare facilities are facing an ever-growing number of security threats that didn’t frequently occur 20 years ago. Patient record privacy breaches, shootings, and workplace violence are some of the security concerns that are becoming more prevalent in today’s society.
What Visitor Information do I Need to Collect at My Hospital?
Healthcare facilities’ needs and requirements for visitor management vary widely. As Security Directors consider what types of information their organization needs to know, there may be additional information they want to know.
Why Use an Inkjet Printer for My Visitor Management System?
No matter the type of building, visitor management systems seem to be everywhere. It is hard to walk into a school, healthcare facility, government agency, or business as a visitor and not be stopped and documented. This is very good from a security standpoint.
The Worst Reasons for not Having a Visitor Management Plan
No matter the size, location, or number of employees a facility has, all schools, businesses, and healthcare facilities have an obligation to have a visitor management plan in place. The visitor management plan can be as simple as a visitor sign-in book to as complex as an electronic visitor management system.
5 Reasons To Use Visitor Badges For Your Hospital Visitor Identification
Hospital visitor management is essential for today’s facilities. The concept behind utilizing visitor management software is the desire to keep patients, employees, visitors, and the facility itself safe from harm.
Color-Coded Visitor Badges: A Simple Upgrade for Increased Security
Visitor management is an important part of keeping your facility safe and secure. One simple way to improve your visitor management system is to use color-coded visitor badges. Here are 4 benefits of using color-coded visitor badges: 1. Increased visibility.
Improve School Security with Tardy Slips: Tracking Student Punctuality
Tardiness, an age-old issue in schools, can disrupt the learning environment and have lasting consequences for students. In this post, we explore the significance of Tardy Slips in addressing this issue and maintaining school security.
5 Ideas For Taking Your Visitor Management System To The Next Level
Organizations that use an electronic visitor management system realize the importance of identifying, tracking, and documenting people who enter a healthcare facility, business, school, or government agency.
How to Get Approval for Buying a Visitor Management System
Electronic visitor management systems (VMS) are a computerized version of the visitor sign-in sheet (or visitor log book) used in buildings for years and are being implemented more frequently in all types of facilities.
7 Visitor Policy Essentials for a Safer School
School security is serious business and visitor management is just one element that administrators must consider when developing comprehensive school safety policies. Here are 7 visitor policy essentials that will help keep students and staff safer.
Explore the Benefits of eVisitor Software for Easy Visitor Management
eVisitor Software is a simple yet robust visitor management system from THRESHOLD. It makes it easy for all types of facilities (schools, businesses, healthcare facilities, government agencies, and more) to sign-in, identify, and track visitors.
Expiring Visitor Badges: The Key to a More Secure and Efficient Facility
If you use a direct thermal printer to print visitor badges you can add more security with one simple change…upgrade to expiring badges. It’s that easy! Expiring badges gradually change color overnight to prevent unauthorized access by ensuring that visitors and contractors can only enter when they have a valid badge.
11 Questions Hospital Security Directors Should Ask When Considering A Visitor Management System
Hospital Security Directors need to consider many different facets of security as part of their jobs. One is visitor management. Knowing who is coming in and out of the building and who is in the healthcare facility at any given time are important to know.
The Importance of Visitor Management for Property Management and Multi-Tenant Buildings
Hospital Security Directors need to consider many different facets of security as part of their jobs. One is visitor management. Knowing who is coming in and out of the building and who is in the healthcare facility at any given time are important to know.
Four Phases of School Emergency Management
According to the United States Department of Education, an all-inclusive school emergency plan is built on the four phases of emergency management and provide direction to the entire school community: Prevention/Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, Recovery.
9 visitor policy basics to keep your facility secure
Visitors to an office building come in many different forms. A few different types include business guests, potential new hires, delivery personnel, and employee family members. Some visitors are regulars, while others visit just once and are never seen again in the facility.
Where Should You Wear Your Name Badge?
Are there a right way and a wrong way to wear a name badge? Most people wear their visitor badges on their left (near their heart). That’s because most people (about 90 percent of us) are right-handed, so it’s easier to put our visitor badges on our left side.
14 School Safety Techniques For A More Secure Facility
School safety is a complicated issue. It affects children, teachers, administrators, and parents in a variety of ways, from the quality of learning to the risk of lawsuits. But it is also everyone’s responsibility, and schools should remind stakeholders of their respective roles in promoting school safety and security.
Understanding the Importance of Crisis Management Teams
Our society has witnessed (too many times to count) that incidents of human-created terror or natural disasters can happen anywhere in the world. Schools, healthcare facilities, and businesses of all kinds are vulnerable.
Emergency Action Plans are Critical for Your Workplace
A workplace emergency is any unforeseen situation that threatens your employees, customers, or the public; disrupts or shuts down your operations; or causes physical or environmental damage. A wide variety of emergencies, both man-made and natural, may require a workplace to be evacuated.
Six Reasons to Consider a Stand-Alone Visitor Management System
There are several benefits to having a stand-alone visitor management system that is not integrated into other internal systems. Here are 6 main reasons: 1. Enhanced Security: By keeping the visitor management system separate from other internal systems, you can minimize potential security risks.
Summer is the Perfect Time for Schools to Upgrade Their Visitor Management System
School is almost over for the year, and summer is right around the corner! School administrators will soon have their new school year budgets released and will begin preparation for next school year. The summer months are the perfect time to upgrade your school’s visitor management system.
8 Ways An Electronic Visitor Management System Will Help Your Bottom Line
Visitor management systems (VMS) are used to sign in and track visitors who come to visit a facility. They are the electronic version of the traditional visitor sign-in book. There are numerous benefits to having an electronic VMS over a manual visitor sign-in book, such as increased data accuracy, better reporting, faster speed of sign-in, and the ability to add a photo to a visitor badge.
9 Visitor Policy Procedures That Will Help Keep Your Hospital Secure
Hospital staff members are devoted to providing safe, high-quality, compassionate care. That compassion and concern for the well being of their patients extends to visitors. Visits by relatives and friends are encouraged to make any patient’s stay more enjoyable, but hospitals must also have policies in place for keeping the healthcare facility secure.
8 Common Mistakes With Visitor Management And Building Security
When an entrance to an office building, healthcare facility, or school isn’t secure, the facility is vulnerable and ultimately could be liable if something bad happens as a result of negligence. A great way to help secure a facility’s entrance is to use a visitor management system (VMS) to document all visitors.
Confidential Sign-In Books Solve Parental Concerns at this Pennsylvania Elementary School
When parents drop off or pick up their children from school, it’s important to keep a record of their visits. Traditionally, this has been done with simple, open log books. However, these can sometimes raise privacy concerns, as other visitors may read the names and details of other visitors.
How Expiring Visitor Badges Work
The most frequently asked questions from buyers of our Visitor Badge products are about expiring badges. How do they work? When do they change color? For years we have described these self-expiring visitor badges as having the capacity to “change color overnight.
The Visitor Badge Sign-In Book Improved Security for a Company in California
The most frequently asked questions from buyers of our Visitor Badge products are about expiring badges. How do they work? When do they change color? For years we have described these self-expiring visitor badges as having the capacity to “change color overnight.
7 Factors That Affect The Cost Of A Visitor Management System
A visitor management system helps give you security and control over your workplace. The tool assists in providing a safe environment for your employees, with full control and visibility of everyone in your building.
7 Common Mistakes with Visitor Management
Visitor management is all about security and safety. Creating a workplace environment where your employees feel safe is critical for productivity and success. In addition to protecting people, visitor management systems also protect property.
Why Consider a Cloud-Based Visitor Management Solution?
Cloud-based visitor management systems have many security and efficiency advantages that your facility should be aware of. These tools eliminate concerns around security, privacy, excess costs, outdated technologies, inefficiencies, and accuracy.
At Last – A Better Expiring Visitor Badge!
New Tandem-Expiring Visitor Badges change color overnight to prevent reuse, plus offers BIG advantages over its expiring badge predecessors. It is simple, affordable, and secure. Less costly, Tandem-Expiring Visitor Badges, cost $189 per pack of 1,000.
Why Using Electronic Visitor Management is Crucial in a Post-COVID World
COVID-19 has upended everything across the world. The transition to our new normal is in-process and is trending in the right direction — so much so that some schools and businesses have begun to welcome visitors back into their facilities.
How to print better-looking photo visitor badges
Have you ever seen a visitor photo I.D. badge that actually looks like the person wearing it? For example, look at this one. Could you recognize this person if you saw him? More important, why check someone’s I.D. if it doesn’t accurately represent who is wearing it?
FAQs about Visitor Badges with Expiring Technology
The most frequently asked questions from buyers of our Visitor Badge products are about expiring badges. Below are some of the most common ones about these extra-secure visitor badges. How do they work? Badges with Expiring Technology have the capacity to “change color overnight”.
What is the Difference Between TAB-Expiring Badges and FULL-Expiring Badges?
The TAB-Expiring Visitor Badge is the world’s most efficient expiring badge solution. It’s called “TAB-Expiring” because the expiration components are part of the tab attached to the self-adhesive badge.
eVisitor and Expiring Badges Help a New York Casino Increase Security
A casino in New York State was having two security issues: 1) Staff didn’t know how long vendors were in their buildings, which is a security concern. 2) Employees who forgot their employee badges would be issued a temporary badge for the day, but it could be used again and again.
Badging all Visitors Reduces Crime and Increases Safety at a Major Northeast Hospital
There was a public perception that a major hospital in a New England capital city was not safe. People could come and go with no check-in, resulting in frequent thefts from patients and staff, as well as drug use in public bathrooms.
eVisitor Software: Robust Yet Simple Visitor Management Software
Do you have a visitor management system that is too expensive, too complicated, or unreliable? It may be time to upgrade your visitor sign-in process. “eVisitor” software makes it easy to sign in and badge every visitor. This helps to make your people and property more secure.
Manual visitor management that is actually automatic
When is a manual visitor management system actually automatic? When it functions as both a visitor sign-in system and a visitor badging system at the same time. The all-in-one Visitor Badge Sign-In Book is a self-duplicating system that creates a temporary visitor badge and a permanent visitor log in one simple step.
The power of using color for better visitor security
There’s nothing like adding a little COLOR to your visitor badges to make them stand out … and to help your staff quickly see what kind of visitor is approaching them in the hall.
Badges With EXPIRING Technology Work With Popular Visitor Management Software Systems And Printers
Organizations that use expiring visitor badges give their sign-in process an extra layer of security. That’s because, with “expiring technology,” these badges change color overnight. They may be valid today, but they become void tomorrow.
Visitor Badges with Expiring Technology Improve Facility Security
When you see a visitor in your building, how do you know they are authorized to be there? Even if they’re wearing a visitor badge, how can you tell they signed in today? Maybe this person was here before, or maybe they found a used badge outside.
What is Vendor Credentialing and Why is it so Important?
What is Vendor Credentialing? Hospital vendor credentialing is the authorization process that a medical vendor sales representative must go through in order to be allowed access into a hospital or healthcare facility.
The Right Visitor Management System is the Foundation of a Strong Security Program
It was always difficult to identify exactly who was in your facility, because people are coming in and out, through a variety of different entrances and exits, including the loading dock. But, by mid-2020, COVID-19 did what legions of security professionals couldn’t – it made everyone aware of who was around them, and who was in their facility at any point in time.
Knowing Who is Entering Your Building is a Security and Health Issue These Days
Electronic visitor management systems are used to sign in and track visitors who come to visit a facility. These types of systems are popular with schools, healthcare facilities, and businesses of all kinds. Electronic visitor management systems are an electronic version of the visitor sign-in sheet or visitor log book used in buildings for years.
New Log Book Helps With Contact Tracing at Your Facility
In these COVID-19 times, every facility needs to document who is in their buildings. This includes visitors and staff. Our new Confidential Visitor Sign-In Book with Contact Tracing is an effective and inexpensive way to document all people who enter a building.
Who is in your hospital right now? Where are they going, and why?
3 new eVisitor software security features help manage your visitor capacity. Your hospital’s visitors, vendors, and contractors come and go. If you don’t know who they are, where they’re going, and why, you’re exposing your people and property to considerable harm.
How to Safely Allow Visitors to Your Hospital in a COVID-Exposed World (Seventh of a Seven-Part Series)
Manage your points of entry and badge every visitor to keep your hospital safe for patients and staff. Allowing unidentified visitors is a security risk. THRESHOLD products make it easy to sign in and badge every visitor, so you know who is in your building.
How to Safely Allow Visitors to Your Hospital in a COVID-Exposed World (Sixth of a Seven-Part Series)
A visitor management system should tell you who has permission to be in your facility and who does not. A good VMS, in support of your visitor policies: requires visitors to check in at the front desk, allows the front desk to authorize visits (and to refuse them)…
How to Safely Allow Visitors to Your Hospital in a COVID-Exposed World (Fifth of a Seven-Part Series)
At best, not identifying visitors makes employees wonder about them. At worst, it leaves people exposed to potential harm. Any unauthorized visitor should be considered a security breach, with assumed bad consequences, such as: bringing disease into your hospital, now more than ever…
How to Safely Allow Visitors To Your Hospital in a COVID-Exposed World (Fourth of a Seven-Part Series)
Choosing the right VMS requires asking the right questions. A good visitor management system, or VMS, lets you sign in, identify, and track your visitors. This helps protect your patients and staff from outsiders. Every hospital has different needs.
How to Safely Allow Visitors to Your Hospital in a Covid-Exposed World (Third of a Seven-Part Series)
The safety of patients and staff comes first. This will ensure the safety of visitors. Your visitor policy should help you do the following: CONTROL Managing your visitors begins with limiting how many you allow and when.
How to Safely Allow Visitors to Your Hospital in a COVID-Exposed World (Second of a Seven-Part Series)
Now, more than ever, you must know who is in your building. This requires signing in, identifying, and tracking your visitors. How to know who has permission to be in your hospital. When was the last time you saw a healthcare worker who wasn’t wearing some form of identification?
How to Safely Allow Visitors to Your Hospital in a COVID-Exposed World (First of a Seven-Part Series)
A new threat has been added to your hospital security list. COVID-19 means more vigilance, even when infections decline. Increased scrutiny of visitors should continue. Hospitals have always had to manage the risk of infectious diseases.
How eVisitor Software makes Visitor Management easy
“eVisitor” is THRESHOLD’s visitor management software that makes it easy to sign in visitors by keyboard or driver’s license reader, take a photo, print a badge, keep a visitor log, and issue many different kinds of reports.
How a Large Healthcare Organization is Identifying Staff That Have Been Screened Daily for COVID-19
Client: Network of Rehabilitation Facilities, Solutions: Print Solutions, Situation: A large healthcare organization needed a way to identify staff at three of its medical rehabilitation facilities who had been screened and cleared for COVID-19 on a daily basis.
Ways to Manage the People You are Screening for Covid-19
These are some extraordinary times we are living in. A few months ago, no one in America knew what COVID-19 was. In a short period of time, the virus has crashed economies, broken healthcare systems, filled hospitals, and emptied public spaces.
The Importance of Vendor and Contractor Management for Casinos
Visitor Management Systems (VMS) are an electronic version of the visitor sign-in sheet or visitor log book that is commonly used at many facilities. Electronic visitor management systems make the visitor sign-in process more efficient and provide an improved ability to track visitors.
Color-Coding Your Visitor Management For Extra Building Security
Visitor management refers to tracking the usage of a public building or site. A popular tactic to track and identify visitors that come to a facility is to document their presence and issue a visitor badge to wear.
Sample Communications to Parents and Staff
Congratulations – you are taking a step to improve security by changing how your school manages its visitors. So, parents (your most common visitors) and staff (who will enforce this new process) need to know what is now expected of them.
Patient and Family Centered Care
Health care practitioners listen to and honor patient and family perspectives and choices. Patient and family knowledge, values, beliefs and cultural backgrounds are incorporated into the planning and delivery of care.
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