Overzealous access check.

[astralenigma]

Machinery checks for access in their parent object meaning that you need to have your ID on you or in the machine for it to work also you can't see the air alarms if you don't have an engineering access ID and you still have to swap it to unlock control access.
Seems a bit of a overkill and creates some problems down the road for example you need to constantly take out the HoP card when you want to give a promotion as it detects the card it's checking the card who is to receive the promotion instead of the card that is giving the promotion as it only locates one ID.
I did a check on all machines and only the RnD consoles and other research machines would need that kind of ID control as most of the others already have a window who does that unlock check.