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Hygiene and safety, I would guess. A card in a lanyard can get caught up in all sorts of machinery and even a wristband can be slightly difficult to keep clean.
by mseebach 9y ago
Hygiene and safety, I would guess. A card in a lanyard can get caught up in all sorts of machinery and even a wristband can be slightly difficult to keep clean.
- Normal_gaussian 9y agoMake the band from the right metals and it keeps itself hygienic
- Kluny 9y agoMy new startup makes employee id bracelets out of sterling silver with embedded rfid chips encased in sapphire, for tech startups that can't figure out how to spend their VC money.
- Normal_gaussian 9y agoI'll take that as sarcasm, cheap copper should be fine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_copper https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_...
- logfromblammo 9y agoSarcasm or not, it makes me wish my current municipality had some stupid VC money sloshing over the sides of the tub.
- dovdovdov 9y agoUm, almost the same applies to hands and arms.
- cyphar 9y agoI don't know about you, but my body's sense of proprioception[1] doesn't extend to lanyards or other things attached to my clothing. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception
- dovdovdov 9y agoYeah, but getting your arm ripped off by some machinery is also rarely deliberate.
- cyphar 9y agoBut you're likely to notice if your arm is near a piece of machinery -- which was my point. Lanyards and ties? Not so much (in fact, that's one reason why neck-wear such as ties are banned from many such sites -- because of the risk).
- Teever 9y agoI think the fact that you're arguing this shows that you've never worked around heavy machinery.
- rebuilder 9y agoWhat is your point here - that we should cut our arms off to be safe near heavy machinery?