An innovative, inexpensive and easily applied access control system being introduced throughout North America by Whiting Corporation boosts occupational health and safety (OHS) and cuts business risk associated with hundreds of billions of dollars of industrial equipment used by major industries. AccessPoint from Whiting Passport – to be exhibited at booth #4836 at PROMAT 2015 in Chicago from March 23-26 – is a universal access control system that uses smart card technology to control access to a huge variety of mobile and fixed plant equipment used by the materials handling and logistics sector. U.S. Department of Commerce and Bureau of Labor statistics show this sector is one of America’s largest and fastest growing. The consumption of material handling and logistics equipment and systems in America exceeds $156 billion per year, and producers employ in excess of 700,000 workers.