Safe & Secure Aged Care Facilities
Providing the best care for staff, residents & visitors
The Aged Care sector is going through a time of unprecedented change. Investigation, regulation and demographics are driving a re-examination of the way the industry operates and conducts itself.
These factors mean that aged care providers need to provide greater levels of care, offer accountability and transparency into their operations and deliver services more efficiently.
If you’re looking to technology to help, and many organisations are, one of your first considerations should be Electronic Access Control (EAC). The right EAC can play a valuable part in helping keep your residents safe, secure and living their best quality life.
Challenges of security in aged care
Aged care facilities come in all sizes, configurations, building styles and ages. From retirement communities to nursing homes, a typical residence may have a range of facilities - resident and patient rooms, staff and reception areas, nurse stations, dining and leisure rooms, drug cabinets, cleaner and laundry rooms, car parks and retail services - each with different access doors, gates, barriers, airlocks and emergency exits.
Whether you’re taking your first step away from physical keys, ready for a fully automated, centralised system, or want a more cost-effective option to expand your existing system we’ll advise you on the best approach to keep your staff and residents safe and sound.
FROM THE FRONT ENTRANCE TO THE RESIDENT DOOR
There are a number of areas within an aged care facility that are important to protect and SALTO can help you with:
PREMISE ACCESS SECURITY
- Secure perimeter entrances
- Reduce number of physical keys to manage
- Integrate with existing security systems e.g. CCTV, alarms and monitoring
- Centrally managed database
- Synchronise user identities with ActiveDirectory
- Easily retrofit access points in older and heritage buildings where cabling is difficult
- Grant location and time-dependent access for visitors and contractors
- Audit trails for insurance and accountability
- Real-time lockdown for emergency situations
STAFF
- A range of credentials to offer staff including card, fob, RFID sticker, wristband or smart phone
- Easily grant relief staff temporary access to locations
- Differentiate easily who has access and when
- Audit trails for time and attendance
RESIDENT & PATIENT ROOMS
- Secure rooms and personal belongings
- Grant time-dependent access for visitors such as family
- Monitor resident movements e.g. inactivity
- Facilitate lockdown or egress for emergency situations
DEMENTIA CARE UNITS
- Secure specialty entrances such as airlocks
INTEGRATION WITH EXISTING OPERATIONS
- SALTO integrates with many existing alarm, CCTV and Nurse Call systems
GYM & LEISURE FACILITIES
- Secure equipment and belongings
RETAIL & THERAPEUTIC SERVICES
- Secure equipment for services such as hairdressers, massage rooms and cafés.
- Audit trails for accountability
LOCKERS & DRUG CABINETS
- Freely assign lockers to secure belongings with the same credential for access
- Protect against theft of drugs, pharmaceuticals or personal belongings
SINGLE CARD SOLUTION
- Enhance and manage cashless payments for retail services and transport with the same credentials
SALTO BioCote® Protection
SALTO BioCote® helps to provide you with a cleaner, safer and more hygienic environment for your staff, residents and visitors to use.
This leading antimicrobial silver ion technology helps eliminate microbes on product surfaces, and significantly reduces the level of microbes on SALTO locks by up to 99.99%. This helps to eliminate the spread of microbes around a building as microbes are not transferred from door-to-door by people as they go about their daily business.