For security to be at its most effective, it’s important to know whether or not someone who’s in a particular area of a workplace should really be there. In particular, at sites where there are potentially sensitive documents or hazardous equipment, research facilities or where construction is taking place, managers need to identify those who are not supposed to be there quickly.
Staff lanyards make this task very easy, by providing a cost-effective, user-friendly and straightforward way of knowing who has authority to be on site and who doesn’t.
Wearing a staff lanyard around the neck gives employees always easy access to their ID, and, with swipe cards, means people are not scrabbling around in wallets when leaving or entering the building.
In large workplaces, being able to identify everyone by face can be a challenge. One solution can be to have different tiers of employee wearing different coloured lanyards to show what level of access they have. Senior management, for example, could wear one particular colour to indicate they have access all areas; others could have a different colour for their particular department or work area only. Visitors to the premises could wear another shade for their ID.
These lanyards also come into their own at events like busy music festivals, and at one US department store, where employees do not wear uniforms, bright staff lanyards have been introduced so customers can identify sales assistants easily.
