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Healthcare Security Weekly, February 14, 2005
If you use an infant tagging security system at your hospital, make sure you conduct random tests each week.
"Sometimes people rely on the system too much so we have to periodically test the system," says Fredrick Roll, MA, CHPA-F, CPP, president of Roll Enterprises, Inc., in Morrison, CO.
To test the system, grab any infant bracelet and then walk through the detectors. The key is using a random tag rather than the test tag. "If you only use the test tag, then that just shows that the test tag works," he says.
"Hold the tag in various places, like close to the body or even try putting the tag in a bag to emulate what an abductor might do to best test the system," Roll says.
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