Struggling with Biometric Attendance for 900 Workers? How Do You Handle Dirty Hands?

Hi, everyone.

In our manufacturing company, people's hands were always dirty with chemicals and other substances, so they couldn't use the biometric device to track attendance. However, it is essential for our company, especially for tracking incoming and outgoing times, considering our employee strength is 900. We need help and suggestions for this issue.

Thank you.

I advise that a person should be appointed for that matter to take care of attendance. Alternatively, a supervisor can maintain an Excel sheet, or the company can provide access to a website for the employees (if they are all computer literate).

Providing Washing Facilities for Better Hygiene

It may be a very simple solution to provide washing facilities for workers to clean their hands before leaving. This will allow them to use the biometric system, and more importantly, it will improve their health through better hygiene. I think this is a requirement of the Factories Act in many states.

As for coming in, it should not be a problem since their hands would be clean. Otherwise, you would need to have manual attendance taken by security or HR.

The final solution would depend on various factors that you are aware of, but we on the forum are not acquainted with your factory.

Regards

The solution provided by learned member Saswata is good.

Both personal hygiene/health and proper record of attendance can be achieved by this simple compliance with the Factories Act.

Reply of one learned member of providing an Excel sheet on payment shows the commercial side and not the helpful side, which is one of the main objectives of the forum.

Guide, assist, and learn are the basic credo of the forum.

Seeking business at every opportunity is not the idea of this forum.

Dear Syed,

You can convert your Employee I-Cards to RFID cards. These work similarly to biometric machines; the only difference is that instead of a fingerprint impression, the I-card needs to be scanned for attendance.

A disadvantage is that another person can also punch attendance using another employee's card. Implement a strict policy from the beginning to prevent this issue.

Overall, it is a safe method and is commonly used in most MNCs for access control and restricting individuals from certain areas in the factory.

Considerations for Using RFID in Attendance Tracking

RFID is generally considered useful in a sophisticated environment with a very low possibility of proxy, where ID cards are prominently displayed and verified by people. Will that actually suit your case? As the poster pointed out, anyone can punch 2 or even 10 cards at the same time. Will simply having a policy make a difference? Or will you be using security guards to monitor? The only real difference might be in preventing accidental errors that come with manual records.

Regards

With cleanliness, the biometric reader is a better solution. The readers also come with an RFID option. In some installations, when the reader cannot read the fingerprint, the RFID can be used. In some installations, the security is trained to manually enter the employee code using the control pad.

The cost of an RFID card for 900 employees should be taken into consideration before implementation. Additionally, rules need to be set for corrective actions in situations like lost cards or not carrying the card to duty.

Advantages and Disadvantages of RFID and Biometric Systems

All services or products have advantages and disadvantages. RFID need not be used in sophisticated environments only. Most companies use it for all levels of employees.

Biometric machines cannot be used when an employee has dirty hands, the skin is tampered with, or has some solutions applied to it. It will also not work when mehndi is applied. Of course, no solution will be free; each carries a cost to it. But RFID in this situation is the best option. A security guard can monitor both biometric and RFID systems.

Regards