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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.