JAAF Secretary General tells apparel factory owners to convert employees’ vaccination card to digital

The Secretary General of Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) Tuli Cooray has urged all members to ensure their employee’s Covid-19 vaccination is saved in ‘digital format’ and present them as ‘proof of vaccination’ whenever required.

The digital format has been necessitated to avoid loss of any piece of vital information of the vaccinated employee due to card being defaced or damaged due to frequent use or to use the virtual card as a back -up in case card is reported missing, he said.

From January, all new issues of Ransalu Privilege Cards will have a QR code printed on the front panel and when scanned will show a true image of the Covid-19 vaccination card issued by medical authorities.

CH17 Loyalty – the administrators of Ransalu Privilege have developed a programme that will accommodate this new feature and allow members to upload a JPEG image of their vaccination card to a secure cloud based portal which will be mapped to the QR Code. 

“You don’t have to have a smart personal device to access our programme and no downloads required. You can log in from any device (mobile or desktop / laptop) which has internet access and proceed with the normal protocol,” said CH17 CEO Jumar Preena.

“We are not sure how the vaccine card authentication process is supposed to work, but we are making ourselves ready for it,” he pointed out.

The apparel sector is the largest industrial employer which has a combined workforce of around 450,000. This is a significant number and having them on a digital base will encourage employers with large worker database to follow suite, 
Jumar added.