Safety and security on the job are important for many reasons. Employers spend millions of dollars a year on safety measures including surveillance, background checks, security personnel, standard uniforms and security badges. ID cards, name badges, keys and pen drives are often hung from lanyards, as a way to keep their security identification clearly visible and accessories in an easily accessible location.

When it comes to selecting lanyards, there are an endless number of options. Colour, size, length and attachment must all be considered. Out of all the lanyard options available however, the breakaway release is one of the most important. The breakaway release is an added safety feature that protects the individual wearing the lanyard. For instance, if the lanyard were to be caught in a piece of machinery or wrapped around the individual’s neck, the breakaway would separate the lanyard at the breakaway poin preventing injury to the wearer. So breakaway lanyards are just like regular lanyards, but come apart when there is a sufficient amount of pull.

As well as convenience, there are many benefits of using breakaway lanyards. When regular lanyards become a physical hazard or danger to others, breakaway lanyards are the best option that allows employees to wear their lanyard while still staying safe on the job.

Breakaway lanyards are a good option for workplaces that require constant visible security ID such as those that cater to the needs of children; including day-care and play centres, kindergartens and primary, intermediate and high schools. Infants and toddlers are notorious for grabbing, pulling, tugging, and yanking on things that dangle, so a breakaway mechanism could prevent friction burns, strangulation, choking, or harm to the carer. Also, for children who are required to wear lanyards, the breakaway function prohibits them from getting hurt when catching the lanyard on a piece of playground equipment for example.

Nurses in emergency rooms are constantly on their toes, running from one place to another; dealing with tubes, wires, and thrashing triage patients. Without a breakaway lanyard, a busy nurse can get caught on any number of things, or the lanyards can get tangled in wires. Breakaway lanyards keep the nurses on track without having to stop to untangle.

Additionally, employees may choose breakaway lanyards for ease of use. People can easily detach accessories from the lanyard to use them and reattach them when use is over. In this way, chances of losing things get reduced. Also, regular lanyards must be pulled on over the head, but breakaway lanyards can be attached like a necklace. If employees are required to wear hardhats, a breakaway lanyard can easily be put on regardless of the hat for example.

Breakaway lanyards can be stylish and safe no matter where you work or the environment you are in.

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Company Overview

Our new Lanyard & Attachments factory
in Xiamen, China
Brady People ID (formerly Comprehensive ID Products, Inc. – CIPI) is a manufacturer and worldwide distributor of ID products serving the identification, security, promotional advertising, and awards & engraving industries. We own and operate manufacturing facilities in China and the United States, and distribute our ID products through a global network of authorized resellers.

Brady People ID is a division of Brady Corporation, a company whose mission is… “We identify and protect premises, products and people.”

Founded in 1914 in Eau Claire, Wis., as W.H. Brady Co, the company went public in 1984 and currently trades on the NYSE under the symbol BRC. It was renamed Brady Corporation in 1998 and currently employees over 9000 people around the world in more than 100 locations. Corporate Headquarters is in Milwaukee, WI.

For more information on Brady Corporation visit www.bradycorp.com.

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60th Anniversary Edition of The Original KEY-BAK Key Reel

To celebrate 60 years of service, KEY-BAK have released the 60th Anniversary Edition of The Original KEY-BAK® Key Reel.

KEY-BAK has an awesome story behind it. Russ Lummis, the founder of the company, saw a need for railway brakemen and switchmen to have a better, safer, more convenient way to handle their key.

Dangling key chains they wore sometimes caught on moving trains. Lummis filled that need by inventing the KEY-BAK®.

Apparently it was an instant success, first in the railroad industry and then in other industries, wherever “keys” were part of the job.

KEY-BAK now make a range of retractable key reels for security, law enforcment, maintence/janitiorial, theft deterrent, ID holders, point of purchase and other uses.

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