As we have gotten more accustomed to living through a pandemic, we have had to accept the fact temperature screening is now just part of business-as-usual.
To keep COVID-19 from spreading and protect employees, clients, and customers, people must be screened for contagious temperatures before they even walk in the door.
Businesses, large and small, hospitals, grocery stores, facilities, and soon school campuses will all have to determine how best to gauge whether or not someone entering their site has a contagious temperature.
The question has become, how can we safely and effectively take people’s temperatures without eating up too much time and money?
The good news is times have changed! Now, we have more than one temperature screening option available. Let’s take a look at the most common options and how they stack up for a pandemic screening.
- Contact thermometer
- Handheld thermometer
- Hands-free body temperature scanner
Contact Thermometer
No Contact Is a Must During a Pandemic
Let’s start with the good old-fashioned contact thermometer. The name itself tells you what you need to know— it requires contact.
To get a reading, you have to place it in the:
- Mouth
- Armpit
- Ear
- Rectum
And you have to disinfect the thermometer between uses. This makes the thermometer too high-risk and too inefficient to use at facilities, schools, or businesses where large numbers of people need to be monitored.
Handheld Thermometer
Too Close and Too Costly
Many employers and facility heads have been reaching for the handheld thermometer. All you have to do is aim and read the readout. But even this method limits how quickly employees, visitors, and others can be checked.
Not only that, but the employee using the scanners must be close near the people they are testing, which increases the risk of infection.
And you may have to hire someone specifically for this task, which increases the financial burden.
Hands-Free Body Temperature Scanner
The Future Is Here, and It’s Fast and Precise
A kiosk with a body temperature scanner can take care of everything on its own. No employee is required to administer the screening, and no one has to touch anything.
Body temperature scanners usually read temperatures faster than other thermometers. And they are more precise because human error is limited.
Let’s look at welloStationX™, a hands-free, self-service, high-volume body temperature screening station. A person walks up to the station, looks at the screen, and within seconds the Thermo camera takes their temperature.
If the station detects an elevated temperature, an on-screen notification appears, and the individual’s time and date stamped photograph are emailed confidentially to a dedicated staff member.
If their temperature is below the threshold, welloStationX™ prints out an “I’m wello” sticker the individual can wear during their visit or workday.
COVID-19 Isn’t Going Away Any Time Soon
If you have a large population to manage, screening temperatures doesn’t have to slow you down or become a financial burden.
Schedule a FREE consultation where our expert team will learn about your specific site or facility:
- What you have
- What you need
- Where we can help you
Get an action plan from us customized to your needs. Then take delivery of your welloStationX and start scanning to help reduce your risk of infections.
