The COVID-19 pandemic is still disrupting life for many people, businesses and organizations around the world. However, that world has begun adapting to a new normal, and much of daily life has resumed at various points since the pandemic began, including travel, in-person school and in-office work.
In the early days of the pandemic, workplace safety and security conversations were centered around touchless solutions. Entrance providers scrambled to provide wave-to-open door mechanisms, antimicrobial surfaces and other solutions to either eliminate the need to touch door hardware or to make it safer. However, in time it was recognized that surfaces are not a significant vector for transmission of COVID-19, and — while it is still worth considering, given our expanded understanding of the need to contain the spread of disease — the rush to deploy touchless solutions has slowed somewhat.