Identify Un-authorised Vehicles

Posted on13th February 2015 in Blog, Identification, Parking, Security

As we all know parking is one of the many concerns with hospitals, if you’re not paying a fortune for the privilege of parking your vehicle on a semi secure car park you have to leave your vehicle unattended at a nearby road.

We at Hospital Security like to integrate both your parking and your visitor control. Issue a valid, easy to identify parking permit that can be scratched on the days authorised to visit. Not only are scratch off parking permits good for monitoring parking activity for visitors they can also double up or act solely as a staff permit.  This allows staff to provide a method of identification for their vehicle which is parked at your hospital premises.

Many organisations forget the reasons why they need to identify both visitors and staff parking on-site, by implementing such a simple permit you can secure your car park for the foreseeable.

Design

The permit can be designed in any way you wish, whether that’s including your NHS organisations logo or changing the colours and location of scratch off panels on your permit. The typical permit often includes the seven days of the week and every date in calendar format across the year. We often add 2 years to the permit i.e. 2015, 2016, 2017 this allows you to store the permits if not used for up to three years. You can then also quickly identify the parked vehicle and ensure the right year has been scratch off.

Price

Parking permits are relatively cheap in comparison to other parking control solutions, with scratch off permits you can generate income for the hospital by charging the members of staff / visitors for parking permits. We’ve recently been working with one particular hospital who have been generating nearly over £150k in revenue from parking permits with a cost of only £4k. There’s not a better way to identify an authorised vehicle on premises.

To find out more about parking permits and how to identify unauthorised vehicles contact us and we will be more than happy to provide you with full costings and more information.

Over the next couple of weeks I will be going into more detail about visitor parking and how you can tackle the ever-growing security threats within your hospital.