Where are some of the uses of lanyards?
With its popularity now, lanyards can be used with almost anything and anywhere you want.
Here are some:
1. Conference identification – an event or a conference is surely not a free entry. Which in that case you want the people
to identify you, your company or your group by the present people in the conference meeting, or to be distinguished as delegates or VIP’s, this conference IDs are the answer. It is also important to be identified quickly by the crowd or know the right people with access to some restricted areas, without the security employees pestering them for some information or credentials with this ID. You may use simple lanyards that are imprinted in different colors to classifying the people with varying security access or you can also use color coded ID cards that hangs from a clip.
2. Advertising beacon - As mentioned, print the logo, contact details or branding onto your lanyard length and have the
visitors and staffs wear the company logo. This will bring awareness and people are usually kept lanyards for use around the office even after your event. The staffs can wear them while out on a lunch break or still use them even they are not at work.
3. Secure complexes and locations – an entry to secured areas required an ID card or the swipe keys. There are times
even the RFID card or chips can be hung to the lanyard and worn altogether around the neck. This will allow the staffs to use their ID cards easily and will prevent it from getting lost, which in most cases is thought a real disaster. And not to mention here that RFID chips will cost a fortune when lost.
4. Hospital staff - Pens are always on the go, in great demand and are nonstop in their service when taken to the
hospitals. That is why lanyards are specially designed strap that has a particular fitting just to carry the pens around your neck of a hospital employee. The strap also attributes a safety fitting in preventing strangulation in moments that someone just grabs your lanyard or it was caught accidentally on equipments or machineries. These lanyards are excellent in government institutions and around medical facilities because of the safety rating and the capability to open the hands of the medical personnel and nurses in some instances.
5. Parties and Social gatherings – one sample is in cruising where people are required to carry their cruise cards in a
lanyard. There are some special awesome parties that the lanyards were given out to the party goers. Tossing a huge beach party sometimes, visitors are required to wear their particular lanyards with specific colors to display their marital status. While in a small get together, people are given lanyards to hang around their neck before they can come into a competition during an event.
Again, as stated, people are using these lanyards as a keepsake for their items and also to create tough brand awareness for the company you are promoting.