Articles on visitor management and site safety

Over 10,000 kiosk check‑ins in 12 months: 57% of the day's people arrive before 10 a.m., and only 1.6% were pre‑registered.

Employees use an access card, contractors and visitors sign a paper log. What we saw at 94 plants, and what international studies show.

Who staffs the gatehouse, where contractors sign in, and whether you can prove their induction within a minute. How plants on our calls answered.

Contractor management covers external firms from invitation to exit: documents, site risk acknowledgment, safety induction, entry and the record for audits.

Plants do get risk acknowledgments signed by their contractors. The signed version gets lost afterwards, in emails and binders. How Model Obaly in Opava solves it.

After a contractor's accident, someone searches the binder for their induction signature, and often it isn't there. How Artifex handles 73+ inductions a month.

At the assembly point, people look for workers who left hours ago. A roll call is accurate where a turnstile or card collector records the exit.

The morning queue at the gate doesn't go away with a faster gatehouse. It goes when drivers wait elsewhere and an SMS calls them to the dock.

The visitor log holds up during the day. The gaps appear at rush hour and at night. How Artifex checks in 220+ visitors a month the same way every time.

2026 brought contractors no new paperwork. It brought the question of who was on site when, with which induction. The answer has to start at the gate.