Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a considerable need to ramp up health and safety. We’ve seen the introduction of vaccine passports and masks as well as a limit on the number of people in enclosed public areas. Temperature kiosk also started showing up in greater numbers and played a key role in the reopponing of many businesses.
Temperature kiosks are able to identify possibly infected people before they enter your building. In doing this, you are able to then prevent them from entering and spreading the disease around your workplace.
Now that restrictions have been reduced and many places are functioning like they did pre-pandemic, you may think there is no longer a need for the temperature kiosk.
If there is one thing we have all learned during the pandemic, it’s that it pays to be prepared. That’s why post-pandemic temperature kiosks will likely still have a firm place in 2022 and onwards.
While, at the time of writing, the COVID-19 pandemic is more tightly contained than ever, it is still ongoing. What’s more, there is no real way of telling if and when any resurgences may occur.
More than 180,000 people in the UK and 1 million people in the USA have died of illnesses associated with COVID-19. It is a virus that spreads quickly and which can have devastating effects on clinically vulnerable people.
Preventing major outbreaks from happening again requires a continued effort and temperature kiosks have a role to play in that.
Let’s take a closer look at why temperature kiosks are still important post pandemic.
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No One Knows What the Future Holds
Temperature Kiosks Future: Ensuring Ongoing Business
Playing Your Role in Curbing the Pandemic
They Are Easy to Manage
Post-Pandemic Temperature Kiosks: The New Normal
The Bottom Line
No One Knows What the Future Holds
Without measures to help check for the virus – and the vaccine – we all risk further lockdowns. Businesses and schools also face future closure and loss of revenue. A temperature kiosk will help you take back control of your future.
A little scary, but true. One thing that we can all agree on is that we don’t know what the future holds. That’s why, in light of COVID-19, blueprints and measures to prevent similar crises have to be put in place. Regrettably, much of the world was not prepared for the pandemic.
That, ultimately, led to unnecessary long-term illness and even death. The rollout of vaccines across the globe has been miraculous so far. In the UK alone, more than 53 million people have received their first jabs at the time of writing.
However, it is unwise to assume that everyone you come across has been vaccinated. Vaccination tracking, therefore, is hugely beneficial for a business.
Vaccine tracking is a feature that some temperature kiosks have, such as the LamasaTech Zentrons. This allows you to require anyone who enters your building to present their proof of vaccination. If someone tries sign in without this you can deny their entry.
Any form of temperature kiosk’s future revolves around simply ‘making sure’. Offices, hospitals, restaurants, and more use them to ensure everyone who enters the premises is healthy. Temperature kiosks provide a layer of security in your continued efforts to restrict Covid-19 from entering your workplace.
Temperature Kiosks Future: Ensuring Ongoing Business
By ensuring you have a temperature kiosk and vaccine checks in place, you can continue to welcome customers safely. These kiosks also provide peace of mind to schools, conference centres, and even the smallest offices.
Offices, close-knit workplaces and schools, in particular, are those likely to be hardest hit. What’s more, restaurants, bars, theatres and cinemas all rely on in-person participation. The pandemic has threatened many businesses in leisure and tourism to the point of closure. The simple fact is that business owners need to be sure the coronavirus will not spread across their premises.
Research suggests that small businesses in the UK, in total, are set to lose around £126 million as a result of the pandemic. It’s impossible to recoup that money, and therefore now important to protect against future loss.
Post pandemic temperature kiosks will help to ensure that these businesses can stay open. They will also give reassurance to any potential customers or staff that there is less risk of an outbreak on the premises.
Without this precaution, an outbreak is much more likely to happen. Should this occur, a bar or club, for example, may have to close its doors temporarily. That is not only a loss of income and revenue but also a massive health and safety issue.
Playing Your Role in Curbing the Pandemic
A temperature kiosk with vaccine checks in place is a responsible addition to your frontline. Without checks, you could be letting asymptomatic people with no signs of COVID-19 into your building.
The COVID-19 pandemic surged at an unprecedented rate as there was nothing to slow it down. While we all know how to contain the virus better and treat illness now, it’s important to remain vigilant.
To all play our parts in curbing further illness and potential fatality, we need to plan. Social distancing measures may relax over time. However, remote temperature stations will likely still be prudent.
By maintaining temperature checking units and stations, we can ensure that we are ‘doing our bit’. ‘Vaccine passports’, still only solve half the problem. A temperature checking booth ensures you are keeping people safe, by preventing possibly infected people from mixing with your customers and staff.
They Are Easy to Manage
It is also easy to assume that temperature checking is challenging to manage. However, innovations such as those available from LamasaTech can help you to keep in check.
LamasaTech offers a remote logging system where you can keep all of your temperature and vaccine checks in place. Providing live reporting and complete entry logs, it is entirely possible to see all check-ins from various devices.
Our VisiPoint Cloud platform provides incredible fluidity and flexibility. This lets you keep a close check on temperature logs and vaccine status. It’s entirely possible to import lists and user profiles from device to device too.
It is, again, an easy assumption to make that temperature checking booths are awkward to monitor or downright tricky. However, they are fast becoming what is known as the “new normal”. By this, we refer to measures and checks brought in as a result of the pandemic. Temperature checking stations may not be as widespread by this time next year, but they will still have a role to play.
Temperature kiosks will become part of a broader control and management system. Therefore, just as you would expect to check for photo ID on the door, you’d also check vaccine and temperature records.
Post-Pandemic Temperature Kiosks: The New Normal
The concept of a ‘new normal’ has reverberated for a long time. However, it’s important to remember that there will still be areas of our lives that need to alter short-term.
Facilities protecting against the spread of COVID-19 must ensure post-pandemic temperature kiosks continue. No one is sure quite where the pandemic will end.
Therefore, it is crucial to keep track of your data – from any devices you have to hand.
The Bottom Line
One of the very few ways we are all going to be able to keep track of COVID-19 moving forward is through temperature checks. Smart vaccine checking monitoring stations and data analysis are widely available right now. LamasaTech is already supporting thousands with post-pandemic temperature kiosks. Just because restrictions are opening up again doesn’t mean the virus has gone away.
