Helen Writings
No matter what industry you work in, you likely have some sort of workplace identification. Perhaps you have a photo identification card, a scan-able ID badge, or maybe something as simple as a name tag. The popularity and necessity of requiring a plastic id badge at the workplace has increased dramatically over the last ten years, and for good reason. ID cards protect our businesses and fellow workers by helping us to quickly recognize non-employees.
But just because ID cards have become common does not mean they should be inconvenient. Searching for your photo id card in your wallet or purse when you walk into work can cause some serious frustration and time delay. Aside from being hard to find, a free-roaming photo id badge can also get scratched, bent, or even lost, the greatest hassle of all. Fortunately, there are many ways to comfortably and conveniently secure an ID badge.
One way to carry your identification card or access badge is to wear it around your neck attached to a badge lanyard. This efficient style of displaying an ID badge or name tag allows it to be easily accessible while keeping your hands free. Today badge lanyards, which can be custom printed with a company’s logo or slogan for additional advertising purposes, are typical amongst business employees, medical staff, students, or trade show attendees.
There is a variety of hardware attachment options designed specifically to secure a photo id badge to a lanyard. Bulldog clips, swivel hooks, swivel clasps, and retractable badge reels are the most popular of the attachment options. The bulldog clip will grasp any type of plastic id badge or tag, while the swivel hook and swivel clasp are designed to fit through the hole of a plastic badge holder, which protects the employee id badge from the elements and from general wear and tear.
The retractable badge reel is a particularly convenient accessory to badge holder lanyards. The retractable badge reel contains a string or wire that will extend 28 inches and then retract into the plastic reel for storage. Retractable id card lanyards allow the company id card to be displayed and scanned without the wearer ever having to remove the lanyard.
The retractable badge reel does not have to be part of a badge lanyard. The badge reel can be ordered as an individual item and handily attached to your belt, purse, or shirt.
Finally, vinyl badge holders provide a number of different ways to carry and display your employee id badge. Vinyl badge holders can be pinned, clipped, strapped to your arm, or attached with a magnetic backing. All of these options secure your company id card, make it conveniently accessible, and protect the photo id badge from wearing out quickly.
There are many suppliers who offer an assortment of staff id badge holders online, such as Namifiers. Namifiers stocks and manufactures all types of badge holders from retractable id badge lanyards to vinyl and acetate badge holders. Namifiers even offers custom printed plastic badge holders for a little extra personalization.
If ID cards are used at your workplace, there are many different choices available for securing your staff id badge. With the right photo id badge holder, your photo id badge will never be an inconvenience.
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Posted in Employees · March 9th, 2010 · Comments (0)
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