Neck Lanyards sell for between $0.50 and $20 depending on the quantity bought, the materials used, the length of the neck lanyards and their specific purpose. Neck lanyards are a wonderful tool for keeping regularly used objects close at hand. Lanyards have been around for centuries and are one of those items that has a multitude of uses. Originally they were used by both seamen and the cavalry to guarantee that an item the user was holding could not be lost. One example is the sword. Before riding a horse into battle, the rider would attach his sword to a lanyard that was then wound around his wrist or attached to his mount. Then in the heat of battle, if the sword became slippery due to sweat or blood and slipped from the riders hand, it could only escape as far as the length of the lanyard. At that point the rider could simply swing it back up into his hand and continue fighting without having left himself defenceless. Seamen were in a similar situation in that they would fight on an unsteady footing in a situation where anything they were using could easily get washed out of their grip. They too would use lanyards to secure to their wrist whatever item they were holding so that if it was dropped, it could easily be retrieved.
Neck Lanyards
Lanyards today are used for entirely different reasons and often in a different way. Rather than wrapping the lanyard around the wrist, most people now use neck lanyards which, as the name suggests, are hung from around the neck. This has the advantage of leaving the hands completely free from carrying the item attached to the lanyard, when that item is no longer being used. Instead, the item simply hangs from the neck and can be grasped and used at any time that is necessary and convenient. The items which now dangle from neck lanyards have changed from the sword of old. For instance, an item that waiters use often is the bottle opener. Because of the number of times the waiter may need to use a bottle opener during a single night, it becomes incredibly inconvenient and frustrating for the waiter to have to fish out a bottle opener from their pocket every time they are asked to open a bottle of wine for a customer. In this situation, the neck lanyard provides the perfect solution by allowing the bottle opener to hang from around the waiter’s neck in a position that is conveniently reached when needed by the waiter. After use, the waiter can simply drop the open rather than having to put it back in his pocket.
Neck Lanyards for Nurses
Similarly, neck lanyards are useful in nursing situations to allow the nursing staff to carry a number of useful items including such things as scissors or a watch. Nurses often are in a position where they need particular utensils in a hurry without the need to go searching for them and as such, the neck lanyard again provides the perfect solution.
Cell Phone Neck Lanyards
Cell phone neck lanyards are also becoming more common as a way to carry a mobile phone. The advantage here is that neck lanyards allow the cell phone to move around rather than being stuck in one place on the body, thus reducing the concentration of harmful waves received around any particular part of the body. Neck lanyards have thus provided a possible reduction in cancers through their implementation as a cell phone lanyard.
Identification Name Tag Lanyards
Another use for which the neck lanyard is becoming most well known, is as a convenient means for carrying identification name tags. This is particularly the case in many corporate work places which have a number of areas with limited access based on the authority of the user. Even the buildings themselves of many of these companies cannot be accessed without the use of an identification badge. Whether it is a bank or an IT company, simply entering the building may not be the only entrance the name badge is required. Some employees find that they need to enter a number of different areas including floors, departments and individual offices that each require an id card to gain access. In days past, the id name badge was attached to the staff members shirt or blouse with the use of a clip or safety pin. Because the cards are usually swiped through a card reader, this required the card to be removed from the clothing every time the employee wished to access another area. The neck lanyard, to some extent, provided a solution to this problem. The identification name badge is attached to the neck lanyard and so does not have to be removed to be used. The employee simply leans towards the card reader and swipes it without having remove it.
Retractable Neck Lanyard
The only problem with this method though, is the user must still lean towards the card reader to swipe their identification badge which can result in them having their face right near the wall or door, or doubled over if the card reader is at desk level. The solution to this problem has been solved with the use of a retractable lanyard badge holder. This really is the combination of a neck lanyard and a retractable badge holder. A retractable badge holder contains a reel around which is wound a wire or cord. The name tag holder is attached to the end of the wire and when it is pulled, the wire unwinds from the reel, allowing the identification tag to be pulled away from the reel. Normally the retractable badge holder reel is attached to a persons clothing so that when needed, the id tag can simply be pulled away from the body to be used in swiping the card at a card reader, without the need to remove the badge from the body. A retractable lanyard badge holder is created by simply attaching the retracable id badge holder to the neck lanyard. This gives added flexibility when wanting to use id name tags.
The neck lanyard and retractable badge holder used to create a retractable lanyard can be purchased online for a nominal fee. Neck lanyards range from $1 to $20 depending on the style. They can be manufactured from leather, canvas, ribbon and cord. The retractable badge reel can be bought for as little as a dollar and also comes in several different materials including metal, fibreglass and plastic. Plastic badge holders tend to be the cheapest of these. These items can also be bought in bulk which reduces the prices even further. In fact, because of the usefulness of these items, many companies often order custom badges that have the company logo emblazoned on either the neck lanyard or the retractable reel and sometimes both. This idea has many pluses that include the reduced price of the lanyards, a small gift for the employees, an easier method of security access for employees and company advertising whenever the staff member leaves the office with their retractable neck lanyard around their neck.
