re: It's here! The Biometric ID has arrived

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All TWIC work sites are requiring biometric readers to be implemented in the near future.


Highly doubtful.

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Absolutely true. I'm on a team working on this to be in compliance. Yes, it was delayed for a few years but it's 100% coming and within the next 3 years.

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You must either 1) not travel much or 2) travel like a peasant and go through regular security screening.

Biometric screening is old news bro.

You know those people who blow through security using CLEAR check? Yeah…that’s biometric and it’s all over the country already.

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I think the point was Clear is voluntary now. Miami is going to make this technology the standard for all passengers.

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Highly doubtful.

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https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/03/09/2019-24343/twic-reader-requirements-delay-of-effective-date

I mean I'm was on a project where this was being implemented at a Twic facility. Its been delayed until 2023 but here it is

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. The TWIC reader rule changed this requirement for a subset of high-risk MTSA-regulated facilities (called “Risk Group A facilities”), requiring that they conduct an “electronic TWIC inspection” before allowing access to secure areas. This involves electronic authentication using the TWIC card's Card Holder Unique Identifier (CHUID), validating that the credential has not been revoked by comparing it to a TSA-maintained canceled card list, and verifying a person's biometric (e.g., fingerprint) to the biometric template stored on the card's chip. Because electronic TWIC inspection requires either purchasing TWIC readers, integration into an existing physical access control system (PACS), or other solutions, and electronic inspection may take longer than visually inspecting the card, the TWIC reader rule applied the electronic TWIC inspection requirement only to a high-risk subset of MTSA vessels and facilities.

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All TWIC work sites are requiring biometric readers to be implemented in the near future.


Highly doubtful.

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You would be wrong, it's already coming. Our site has already begun installing all the fiber cables and scanners.

You said all TWIC work sites.

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The TWIC reader rule changed this requirement for a subset of high-risk MTSA-regulated facilities (called “Risk Group A facilities”),

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That would not be all TWIC worksites as I read it.

Probably would include LOOP. Probably would not include several deepwater facilities that have integrated TWIC as part of their safety plan because it was much simpler (and cheaper) to implement than many other.

But I may be misreading it.

This thread has taught me that there are lots of peasants here who were unaware CLEAR existed

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Nothing could go wrong with that at all.

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It was being implemented at one of the refineries I was at it did say in the write up it was for higher risk facilities admittedly I don't know what constitutes that higher risk

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We just put in the readers at the heliport I fly out of. Our facility is considered a high risk facility by definition, which is related to BOEG for offshore production facilities.

I'm probably just in denial that we will have to have one more thing we have to deal with

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