There are any number of reasons why you would want to limit access to your buildings or facilities. In some cases, you have to worry about theft of materials or information. In other cases, you may be concerned for the safety of your employees, students, or clients. In still other cases, you have liability risks when there are unauthorized individuals on your premises, so you want to minimize the chances that anyone will be someplace he or she is not supposed to be and end up getting hurt.

Affordable Access Control Solutions

You simply can't expect a small staff of security personnel to monitor your entire building, especially if your level of physical security is low. Essentially, you have to deputize all of your employees to be on the lookout for strangers and make sure that they're where they belong. With a few easy techniques and inexpensive supplies, you can do this for almost any business or building.

You can get self-expiring visitor badges that make it easy for everyone to see that a visitor does, indeed, belong in your building. These badges are available for half-days, single days, weeks, or months, so you can be sure to get one that does not exceed the duration of a visitor's invitation. A valid badge appears white, but after the expiration time, bright red diagonal lines will appear, making it immediately evident to anyone who passes the individual with the badge that it is expired.

You can also control access to your parking lot with self-expiring parking permits. If you have a guard regularly sweeping the parking lot, he or she will not have to do a more bothersome and time-consuming check of license plates. The guard can simply look in the window of the vehicle and determine if it has permission to park in your lot.