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How to behave as a visitor in office buildings, corporate security

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.

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Dymo 550 Printer NOT Compatible with THRESHOLD expiring badges

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.

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CPTED Office Building Security Checklist

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.

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7 reasons for implementing a Visitor Management System

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.

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The worst reasons for not having a visitor management plan

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.

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7 Visitor Policy Essentials for a Safer School

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.

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Expiring Visitor Badges: The Key to a More Secure and Efficient Facility

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.

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Four phases of school emergency management improves school security

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.

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9 visitor policy basics to keep your facility secure

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.

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It's hard to see his visitor badge. Her visitor badge is in plain view.

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.

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14 School Safety Techniques for a Safer Campus, school security

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.

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Emergency Action Plans are critical for your company security & employee safety

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.

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Six reasons to consider a stand-alone visitor management system

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.

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8 Ways a Visitor Management System Helps Your Bottom Line

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.

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9 visitor policy procedures that will help keep your hospital secure

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.

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8 common mistakes with visitor management and building security

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.

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Self-expiring visitor badges. How do expiring badges work? When do they change color?

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.

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8 Ways a Visitor Management System Helps Your Bottom Line

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.

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Tandem-Expiring Visitor Badges: affordable, secure, easy to activate

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.

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How to print better-looking photo visitor badges

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?

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FAQs about Visitor Badges with Expiring Technology

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”.

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Manual visitor management that is actually automatic

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.

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visitor management, building security

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.

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touchless visitor management for COVID-19

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.

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Confidential Visitor Sign-In Book with Contact Tracing

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.

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Vendor and Contractor Management for Casinos, Casino security

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.

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Inform parents and staff about your new visitor procedures

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.

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family and dr at the hospital

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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      The Red Flag feature has been improved! Now you can set your system to not print a badge for any visitor record that has been previously marked with a Red Flag. The attendant will be prompted to redirect the visitor according to your security protocol.

      Special New Feature: Red Flag, No Badge

      Flag alertsIt’s easy and free to activate this feature. Simply call us and ask for “Red Flag, No Badge” to be turned on. Once it’s on, the above pop-up will come up when a red flagged visitor comes back. No badge will print and the attendant will need to follow the facility’s policy for handling red flagged visitors.

      The flags and notes only show to the desk attendant, not the visitor. 

      Please contact eVisitor Support with any questions on how to use Flags in your system. 

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