A View From the THRESHOLD

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.