Expiring visitor badge has built-in security tab

Time-expiring visitor badges change color to prevent reuse and to eliminate the need for employees to collect them from visitors who have left a facility.

 Since their invention almost 30 years ago, these expiring badges have always required multiple pieces to activate the color-changing process. This is a problem because the person issuing the badge doesn’t always assemble all the pieces properly (too little time or training). As a result, a  visitor’s badge sometimes is activated, and sometimes it is not.

 At last, there’s an expiring visitor badge – for both electronic and manual visitor management systems -- that takes the guesswork out of activating it: the Direct Thermal TAB-Expiring Visitor Pass, from the “Visitor Pass Solutions” line of security products from Data Management Inc.

 “It’s called ‘TAB-Expiring’ because it has a tab extending from one end of the self-adhesive label,” says Brian Gallagher, DMI’s president. “Instead of multiple parts, all of the expiration components are self-contained into one piece, making activation virtually foolproof.”

 Here’s how it works: After the visitor’s information is printed (or written) onto the badge, it is peeled from its liner, and the tab is folded behind the badge to activate the color-changing chemistry. Overnight, a “VOID” image appears on the badge, dissuading departed visitors from trying to reuse their badge on another day, without authorization. Once activated, the tamper-proof expiring process cannot be reversed, ensuring that every visitor badge will change color to void itself.