Excerpt from the report of the
Vulnerability Assessment Team:

After studying TabBand identification bracelets and bands from primary competitors, we have determined that TabBands are a very secure choice for hospitals.

If applied correctly, these bands will not come off a patient accidentally. The only way a TabBand will come off a patient's wrist is if the patient deliberately tries to remove it. TabBands are even difficult to remove deliberately, especially after the pressure-sensitive adhesive has had a few hours to set. The TabBand adhesive is the strongest we've encountered.

While a 'snap-style' closure employed by some manufacturers at first may seem more secure, we found it fairly easy to pop the snap or tear the band, making it more vulnerable to attack than the adhesive.

Roger Johnston, CPP, Ph.D.
Vulnerability Assessment Team
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) stands as one of America's top research institutions, a place first made famous as the site of the Manhattan Project — the creation of the atom bomb.

Today LANL is dedicated to advancing science for both war and peace, and attracts some of the world's top scientists to its campus of laboratories built in a remote part of central New Mexico's mountains.

The Vulnerability Assessment Team (VAT) is renown for its work with safety and security seals. Its most startling result: Even the most elaborate, high-tech seals can be cracked using simple tools. The team has attacked some 213 different seals so far and has beaten every one of them. The average time to defeat a seal: four minutes. The fastest time: three seconds.

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