Visitor registration 2.0: the automatic way to more safety

Headquartered in Texas, Prince's business spans six continents, with applications in more than 20 markets and a track record since 1858. A real honour to also have a site on Flemish soil. In Bruges, a team of 120 people makes enamel powders for applications on steel surfaces. Also glass colouring for e.g. perfume bottles and products for the mining industry get full attention here.

Prince is a Seveso company where the sourcing and processing of hazardous materials is core business, and where safety and access must be continuously monitored in case of evacuations. The search for the ultimate solution for access and visitor management brought Prince Belgium to the masters of efficiency: Synguard.

Matthias Bossuyt, Manager QHSE at Prince Belgium:

“We want to know who is present at all times, organise periodic inspections with evacuations and strive for zero tolerance in terms of safety.”

Was there no access and visitor management before? There was, but just the old way. Before Synguard came into the picture, there was an access control porter who kept a manual registration list of visitors (registration log). Workable, but not (cost-)efficient and not necessarily error-free.

Digitalisation proved to be the future-proof answer. Better still: automation with a smart configuration that works perfectly for Prince Belgium. Easily adjustable and a world of difference for the manager. Visitor registration and access control 2.0.

Visitors now arrive via a freely accessible visitor car park and check in via a self-service kiosk at the counter, where they receive a QR code. Suppliers drive up to the barrier, sign in via the self-service kiosk and receive a QR code that they hold up to the reader at the barrier.

Signing out is easy for any target group: visitors hold the QR code in front of the reader at the turnstile, they can go outside and are automatically signed out. Suppliers hold their QR code in front of the reader to open the barrier and be automatically signed out.

“We soon realised that access and visitor management using the Synguard system would save time, improve user comfort, reduce operator errors and increase security. The software is user-friendly, multilingual, goes hand in hand with the daily use of pre-programmed reports and registration is self-explanatory,” Matthias Bossuyt explains,