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Visitor I.D.'s that your employees can really see

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:

1. Our visitor badges don’t fall off.
2. 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 safe we make it.

So, for them, we offer our line of Badge Tags. These stiff cards clip safely to a pocket, collar, or lapel and, actually, offer much more functionality than protecting sensitive cloth.

Security starts with setting and enforcing good policies

Consider that the reason for badging visitors is so everybody else knows they have been authorized — usually by the front desk — to be in this particular area, on this particular day, for this particular reason.

As an example, put yourself in the following situation. You’re walking down a hallway at your job and you see someone you don’t recognize coming toward you. There are two possibilities:

1. You know everybody who works in your building.
OR
2. Your company is big enough that encountering strangers is fairly common. (In this case, requiring both employees AND visitors to wear badges is a good policy to have.)

If the stranger you encounter is NOT wearing a badge, he could be anybody, but likely is an unauthorized visitor. If he IS wearing a badge, he is either an employee you do not know or an authorized visitor (either way, let’s hope the badge makes it easy for you to tell the difference).

Badge Tags show the What, When, Where, and Why of every visit

Used properly, visitor I.D. badges should answer several questions at a glance. With large colorful Badge Tags, they do.

Here are four examples:

Q: What’s up with this stranger?

A: Oh — just visiting.

Q: How do I know this stranger checked in with the front desk today?

A: I can tell his badge is valid. It’s purple, and today is Wednesday.

Q: Is this stranger in the right place?

A: No — he’s wearing a red badge, and we’re in the office. The factory is the next building over.

Q: Why is this stranger here?

A: He’s wearing an orange badge, so he must be a contractor, here to bid on our new addition.

By identifying visitors with essential information, you validate their presence at your facility. By adding this information to bold, recognizable Badge Tags, you help others to see that validation more quickly.

What creative ways do you identify your visitors? Please feel free to comment below.

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Posted on 10/17/2016