HOW DO YOU IMPLEMENT ALCOHOL TESTING?
July 05th 2007

Are your drivers or users of hazardous equipment below the UK alcohol limit? Because if not, when counting the cost, it’s the mourning after that hurts the most. Key management with compulsory alcohol testing – this system will not allow vehicle keys or keys to access hazardous equipment to be released if the user does not pass an alcohol breath test.

Key management with compulsory alcohol testing

The GB Alcolock 500 alcohol tester (Home Office approved) has been integrated to work with Traka electronic key management to ensure drivers (or operatives of any piece of potentially dangerous equipment) must first pass a breath test before keys can be withdrawn.

After opening the Traka cabinet using a PIN, access card or biometrics reader the user then selects the required key to a particular vehicle or piece of equipment. However, before the key is released the system display requests the user to blow into the Alcolock.

A five second blow and the system will confirm a Pass or a Fail. Only if Passed will the key be released. A Fail and the key will be locked in place. Furthermore the Fail will be logged in the Traka database together with the user’s name.

The Traka integration provides a compulsory breath test before the keys can be released and is a highly cost effective method for ensuring staff are safe before driving or using equipment where excessive alcohol levels may cause danger or impair judgement.

The Alcolock enables management to ensure that operatives are safe in their work environment. Furthermore the duty of care that every business needs to implement is reinforced if every user is proven to be below legal alcohol limits.

Traka electronic key management is used to ensure drivers only take keys to vehicles they are allowed (or to equipment that operatives are permitted to use) and that a record is kept as the key is withdrawn.

This ensures that the drivers have valid permits for the vehicle type (or equipment use) and that a computerised audit trail is generated so that in the event of driving offences or dispute there is positive evidence of the driver concerned. Traka also ensures that the keys are returned after use and provides an easy method for finding out who has the key now or at any time in the past.

Traka also makes it easy to record vehicle (or equipment) defects both to ensure the repairs are carried out quickly and efficiently and to quarantine dangerous or VOR vehicles.

Traka is in use extensively in the UK for all sizes of vehicle fleet and equipment management and typically shows significant operator savings, often with paybacks inside twelve months.

Traka’s product range includes systems for controlling and recording access to fork lift trucks, lockers for auditing access to valuable and important equipment and products for managing access to keys for a wide range of business applications, including property and room access.

Traka is a UK company, offering a full installation, training and customer support service.

Traka will be exhibiting at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton on 10th/11th October on stand 92

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