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No one could have predicted how much the spread of COVID-19 through the United States at the beginning of 2020 could have ultimately impacted businesses across the country, and eventually, across the world. Times have certainly changed, and businesses have had to adapt quickly to keep up.

Though we’ve been fortunate enough to develop a series of vaccines that have been proven effective at promoting immunity to the COVID-19 virus, the rise and spread of variants (like the Delta variant) have made enhanced business safety protocols more important than ever before.

At Imprint Plus, we’re doing our best to help our customers promote their businesses while helping to prevent interruptions to established security protocols and workflows.

Encouraging Crowd Protection Measures with Professional Signage

Two of the most effective protocols that businesses can establish to help prevent the spread of communicable diseases are the wearing of protective face masks and the enforcement of social distancing standards. As more and more businesses transition back to in-person work, it’s important to be sure that your place of business is ready to adjust with the times - and that recommended procedures are reinforced through the timely and judicious placement of professional signage that promotes both the wearing of face coverings and the requirement for social distancing.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, wearing a protective face covering is effective at decreasing the risk of infection, especially among immunocompromised people and in areas of high transmissions, such as in offices where areas are shared and coworkers are in relatively close contact for long hours.

It can be all too easy for your employees to forget to replace their masks after briefly displacing them for a moment, and a helpful reminder in the form of a tastefully designed and placed “Use of face masks strongly recommended” or similar sign can help soft-enforce your workplace rules and requirements.

Similarly, the CDC recommends avoiding close contact with others, even those who appear to show no symptoms. It has become a generally accepted practice to maintain at least 6 feet of distance from other people at all times, especially in areas of high transmission or shared space. Since many communicable diseases can be transported through suspended respiratory droplets in the air, keeping your distance may be able to help diminish the risk of infection and slow the spread of such diseases.

A measure like this is another that can be more effectively reinforced with the placement of tasteful, relevant, professional signage that reminds occupants of such requirements for social distancing. These measures can be encouraged and reinforced with signs for walls and doors, as well as floor stickers that can be placed in areas where employees and customers congregate, reminding them of the requirements for social distancing and how it can protect everyone.

There’s just one minor issue - that we are also able to address. With professional signage implemented and a workforce that observes social distancing and mask-wearing requirements, you’re doing your part to help slow the spread of diseases, but it’s hard to know who’s who! That’s a situation in which photo name badges become even more valuable.

Preventing Workflow Disruptions with Photo �鶹��ý�Ŷ�

With everyone in your workplace observing your mask measures, your customers and employees will be at a lower risk of contracting communicable, airborne diseases, but at the same time, it can confound security measures and even make it hard for your employees to identify each other, especially across teams.

Photo ID badges have always been highly valuable tools for promoting security measures, as these badges can be equipped with unique identifiers and codes that enable or restrict access to locales and facilities on a case-by-case basis. They’re also great for tracking employee productivity - but in the current era, they’re much more valuable because they make it so much easier to identify employees more effectively.

Let’s “face” it - we’re more comfortable when we can associate a face with a name, and despite the fact that face masks protect us all, they make face-to-face interactions a lot less personal. Photo name badges restore some of that personality, and even if that were not the case, they make on-sight identification a whole lot easier.

Create Your Own!

While it’s no secret that photo name badges can improve employee ID, promote security and reintroduce personality into otherwise impersonal interactions, you don’t need to settle for stock badges.

We’ll help you create full-color, custom badges for your organization, branded with your logo and in the style, size, and material of your choosing. Get in touch with one of our customer service representatives today at 800-563-2464 and we’ll help you get started creating a new fleet of branded photo name badges for the modern era. You can also view our to create your own, whichever works best for you!