Protecting Residents and Staff

The impact COVID-19 has had on our most vulnerable, such as the elderly and those living in residential aged care, is particularly devastating, with residents of aged care facilities being most at risk if an outbreak occurs.

allagher’s industryleading security solutions can help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and support aged care facilities in tracing interactions should an outbreak occur.

Competency-based access management

As New Zealand continues to roll out the Pfizer vaccine, aged care facilities need easy

access to information around vaccination status and COVID-19 testing. A lapse in either of these things can have severe and detrimental effects on residents.

Using competency-based access management – where access is granted, restricted, or denied based on compliance with a requirement i.e., a certification or licence – sites can be alerted if a person has not had their two doses of the vaccine plus booster or is late for their routine COVID-19 test. Then grant, restrict, or deny access to areas depending on vaccination requirements and COVID-19 test status.

With Gallagher’s Command Centre, you get one competency enabled in your base license. Access decisions can then be based on this individual competency, allowing your business to effectively manage compliance with COVID-19 policy and government regulations.

Through competency-based access management, you can then send notifications to the individual and management notifying them of pending expiration. In the case of an overdue COVID-19 test, this allows all involved to arrange a follow-up test and remain safe, secure, and compliant.

There are many benefits of competencybased access management. For starters, it offers automatic enforcement of business Occupational Health and Safety rules and policies, reduces the spread of COVID-19 caused by the presence of non-compliant staff, provides tangible evidence of duty of care to residents and staff, and ensures automatic compliance with government regulations.

Proximity and Contact Tracing

Contact tracing has become a vital method for slowing the spread of COVID-19. Facilities can utilise access control data to help track an individual’s movements across a site. Gallagher’s award-winning Proximity and Contact Tracing Report was developed specifically in response to COVID-19 and provide facilities with the data they need for fast and efficient contact tracing. The tool’s innovative design utilises Gallagher’s powerful reporting capability to help identify the movements of specific individuals on-site, enabling managers to identify the areas where an infected person has been.

People who shared an area with the infected person can then be contact traced, isolated, and tested before COVID-19 spreads through the facility and interrupts business continuity. The tool also rules out people who did not share an area with the infected person, allowing these residents and staff to continue daily life in a safe environment.

For more information about security solutions, please visit security.gallagher.com or phone Gallagher’s Steve Cooke on 021 477 175.