Using Self-Expiring Badges to Control Visitor Access

To ensure that someone with permission to enter your building does not abuse the privilege and return uninvited, you might consider self-expiring ID badges for visitors.

Many of the problems related to temporary ID badges are eliminated by this ingenious method. With a brief glance, your security personnel know whether a visitor’s ID badge is still current. This will save time and increase the level of security in your facilities.

Ordinary ID badges must be collected when visitors leave. It may be very difficult or even impossible to ensure that every visitor turns in his or her badge before leaving, even if you designate a staff member to maintain constant vigilance. Your staff will also have to be checking the date and times on visitors’ badges to make sure they are current, or you could develop an elaborate color-coding system for each day of the week.

Self-expiring badges are available in half days, single days, and weekly to monthly durations. If someone will be working on site for three days, he could be given a single-day badge for each day. This would still be easier and more efficient than any other method of visitor identification.

To activate a self-expiring badge, you stick the front printed sheet onto a background sheet. The background sheet has stripes that emerge over a specific period of time. Pre-assembled self-expiring badges are also available. They have a liner between the front and back panels that is attached on one side. To activate this type of self-expiring badge, you tear out the liner and press the front and back panels together.

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