FOOD & DRINK
ACCESS GRANTED Shaun Oakes, Managing Director of ievo Ltd, explains how modern
fingerprint scanners prove a highly cost-effective and superior alternative to traditional access control methods for the processing and packaging sector.
The risk to the food and drink industry, from accidental contamination breaches right up to food terrorism, increases annually with facility managers requiring a robust security strategy to balance safety, reliability and accuracy whilst adhering to risk management assessments. With increasing pressure on profit margins throughout the sector, it is also vital to find a balance between essential security and available investment without compromising on safety.
The growth of modern biometric access control systems linked to time and attendance software, is now able to provide a highly cost-effective security system that not only controls who goes into which areas of a processing plant, but can also provide vital data for health & safety, payroll and other HR requirements.
Whilst access control has traditionally relied on key fobs, PINs or swipe card technology as identifying measures, biometrics offer a more advanced and adaptive solution. Numeric codes and cards can be forgotten, swopped,
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lost or even stolen allowing potential access to unauthorised personnel, resulting in possible security breaches, or systems that could be exploited for time and attendance records.
Biometric technology provides a solution that captures unique biometric data to infallibly determine the identity of the individual who is present. The data cannot be shared, or replicated, and fingerprint readers themselves have built in systems to identify and deny access to ‘fake fingerprints’.
When this technology is then seamlessly linked to advanced time & attendance software, facility and site managers have a multi-level security system which prevents non-authorised access to different areas of the plant and records time and attendance data – a further benefit for managers where continuous operations is common and production staff work 24/7 shift patterns.
Biometric solutions can help alleviate a number of risk issues, allowing for greater accountability, staff tracking and monitoring, accurate health & safety and fire safety
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