Screening Visitors: A Critical Part of Keeping America’s Workplaces and Schools Safe

Do you know who is entering your place of work or your school each day? 

A great deal of time is spent (and rightly so) ensuring that employers conduct high-quality background checks on prospective and current employees. 

Yet too often there is little thought regarding the vendor stocking the soda machine who is a convicted sex offender… or the parent volunteer that is working closely with students at the local elementary school who had a conviction for soliciting a child in a neighboring state. 

Think it can’t happen in your city or town?  

Screening Visitors: What Doesn’t Work Anymore

Sadly, visitors and vendors like the ones mentioned above can and do enter our workplaces and schools and often go undetected because there is no process for screening visitors entering the building. 

In fact, many workplaces and schools have a simple sign-in book for visitors but no technology in place to determine if the visitor is who they say they are.

Reality dictates that thousands of visitors will walk through your business and school doors each year and you will not always know who they are or what risk they might pose.  

In the past, having someone simply sign in at the front desk or reception area was adequate, but in today’s world where workplaces and schools are increasingly becoming a target for violence, knowing who walks through your doors is critical – and thoroughly screening visitors is now mandatory if you want to keep your workplaces and schools safe!

Click here to learn more about screening visitors to keep workplaces and schools safe.

Screening Visitors: What You Should Do

Safe Hiring Solutions has developed and released the only visitor management system in the U.S. that is integrated with comprehensive national background checks to ensure that visitors are identified and do not have unsuitable criminal histories.

SafeVisitor manages all types of visitors for your organization which includes temporary (those attending meetings), volunteers and vendors. 

Temporary visitors scan in using their government-issued ID and receive a self-expiring ID badge so they cannot re-enter the building the next day.

All volunteers and vendors pre-register, undergo a comprehensive background check and when approved are issued an ID card they use to enter and exit your workplace or school. 

This provides a fast and accurate system for knowing who is in the building and who has visited the building, all while flagging those who are not allowed to enter the building.

If you are still manually signing in visitors – or if your system for screening visitors is lacking a thorough background check, we encourage you to contact us by clicking here to receive more information or a demonstration of SafeVisitor for your workplace or school.