Gatehouse Access Control Systems
Hardhat has over 10 years experience in providing Gatehouse Control Systems (GCS) to the Northwest, our systems give you the flexibility and control to state exactly who is allowed to enter and exit site and when.
Our systems allow for the manipulation of time & attendance data and produce management data such as CSCS compliance, accident statistics, attendance reports and roll call for emergency purposes. Originally driven for health& safety reasons our clients are finding lots of commerical benefits in measuring productivity of subcontractors against work schedule particularly useful during final account review, for project management it highlights if subcontractors are not deploying the agreed resource before it becomes an issue.
Client studies have found evidence of 7% reduction in material theft, 3% reduction in labour costs at tailgating & buddy punching were eliminated, 20% increase in labour agency productivity along with 100% compliance to health&safety directives.
Our systems are designed to ensure the safe movement of personnel, assets & materials on and off the site, they are easily deployed here is a selection of platforms that exist. All systems have networking capacity allowing for a multi site environments allowing clients to compile everything from accident occurence rate to benchmarking subcontractors performance.
Biometric Solutions
The Biometric Hand System uses the unique characteristics of a persons hand to provide absolutely "Proof Positive" identification of employees. The system eliminates "buddy punching" so you only have to pay for employees who are at work. In normal use, employees present their hand to the scanner to clock in or out. The data collected by the scanner can be used to increase the productivity and accuracy of your payroll and fire safety.
Advantages of our access control systems include:
- No training required.
- Enrol employees easily.
- Identifies employee in less than 1 second.
- Stops employee clocking out others (buddy punching).
- Saves you money.
- Calculates hours worked.
- Calculates standard hours and overtime hours separately.
- Highlights lateness.
- Deducts time for lunch if not taken.
- Create fire report in the event of a fire.
- Key personnel report.
- Integrates with popular payroll systems.
- CE approved.
- RS232, USB, modem or ethernet.
Gatehouse Control (Proximity System)
The Photo ID Proximity Card System provides entry/exit monitored control featuring software which allows:
- Roll Call/Muster Reporting.
- Time Sheet and Anti-Passback facility.
- Desktop card reader/programmer for instant card log on.
- Photo ID Card design.
- Database customisation
- Card Personalisation
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Delivering cutting edge access control solutions to London, Liverpool, Manchester, Cheshire, North Wales, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Scotland.

