Open HSI menu
Subscribe Login

Home / Articles and Press Releases / Press Release / Slice®: Safety Handles and Safety Blades

CATEGORIES

  • Latest Issue
  • Above The Neck Protection
  • Chemical Protection
  • Confined Space
  • Construction
  • Emergency Procedures
  • Energy, Oil and Mining Industries
  • Eye Protection
  • Fall Protection
  • Gas Detection
  • Hand Protection
  • Hazardous and Explosive Atmospheres
  • Health and Safety Awareness
  • Hearing Protection
  • Heat and Flame
  • Lighting and ATEX
  • Noise Monitoring
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Respiratory Protection
  • Safety Footwear
  • Safety Technology
  • Safety Training
  • Slips, Trips and Falls
  • Wellbeing at Work
  • Working at Height
  • Working Rights

MORE

  • Press Releases
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Webinars
  • Magazines

COMPANY

  • About
  • Advertising
  • Newsletter
  • Contact
Open HSI menu
Subscribe

Home / Articles and Press Releases / Press Release / Slice®: Safety Handles and Safety Blades

CATEGORIES

  • Latest Issue
  • Above The Neck Protection
  • Chemical Protection
  • Confined Space
  • Construction
  • Emergency Procedures
  • Energy, Oil and Mining Industries
  • Eye Protection
  • Fall Protection
  • Gas Detection
  • Hand Protection
  • Hazardous and Explosive Atmospheres
  • Health and Safety Awareness
  • Hearing Protection
  • Heat and Flame
  • Lighting and ATEX
  • Noise Monitoring
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Respiratory Protection
  • Safety Footwear
  • Safety Technology
  • Safety Training
  • Slips, Trips and Falls
  • Wellbeing at Work
  • Working at Height
  • Working Rights

MORE

  • Press Releases
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Webinars
  • Magazines

COMPANY

  • About
  • Advertising
  • Newsletter
  • Contact

CATEGORIES

  • Article
  • Press Release
  • Above The Neck Protection
  • Chemical Protection
  • Confined Space
  • Construction
  • Emergency Procedures
  • Energy, Oil and Mining Industries
  • Eye Protection
  • Fall Protection
  • Gas Detection
  • Hand Protection
  • Hazardous and Explosive Atmospheres
  • Health and Safety Awareness
  • Hearing Protection
  • Heat and Flame
  • Lighting and ATEX
  • Noise Monitoring
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Respiratory Protection
  • Safety Footwear
  • Safety Technology
  • Safety Training
  • Slips, Trips and Falls
  • Wellbeing at Work
  • White Papers
  • Working at Height
  • Working Rights

Press Release

Slice®: Safety Handles and Safety Blades

By Slice

| Read Bio

Published: April 08th, 2019

Share this article

Cutting tools like box cutters and utility knives are found in almost every industrial setting. Useful as they are, however, cutting tools are inherently dangerous. Every EHS manager must mitigate the hazard posed by these tools.

Cutting tool manufacturers have done their part by designing safety knives. Traditionally, this has meant creating handle features that minimize blade exposure. Gloves also help, but many employees take issue with how cumbersome they can be. The extra steps of having gloves on hand and actually putting them on also poses an inconvenience that can result in employees foregoing this important safety protocol.

Even with these steps, however, the root of the problem remains: the dangerous blade is what causes lacerations.

Slice is the only company to offer safety handles with safety blades.

The Slice Finger-Friendly® Blade

Bplciwbtb0ukto5ks3hd - hsi -

Slice blades are made of an advanced ceramic—100 percent zirconium oxide, to be specific—and feature a proprietary grind that makes the cutting edge safe to the touch.

Other ceramic blades and traditional metal blades are overly sharp out of the box. For metal this is particularly necessary because the material dulls relatively quickly. Blades are at their most dangerous when they are overly sharp and when they’re too dull.

Another advantage Slice ceramic blades have over metal counterparts is that they last up to 11 times longer. This means better value and fewer blade changes. Handling a blade is a high-risk situation for cuts; the less often you do it, the better.

When you do have to change out one of the Slice replaceable blades, here’s one more upside: there’s no need to use a sharps container to dispose of the old one.

The Slice safety blade also features these favorable qualities:

  • Never rusts
  • Non-magnetic
  • Chemically inert
  • Non-contaminating
  • Non-porous and chemically resistant
  • Non-sparking
  • Anti-static
  • Non-reactive: impervious to acids and salt
  • Oil and lubricant free

Slice makes rounded-tip utility knife blades and box-cutting blades for another level of safety. But if you do need a pointed tip, Slice has those, as well.

Slice Makes Safety Handles, Too

The goal at Slice is to create the best safety knives possible. We work with world-renowned designers to reassess every aspect of achieving this goal. In addition to offering safety blades, Slice offers safety handles and ergonomic designs.

Traditionally, safety handles have two types of design: fixed retraction and auto retraction. Fixed-retraction handles have a slider that the user depresses and slides to fix the blade in an exposed position. After use, the reverse action replaces the blade back into the handle so it poses no laceration threat.

An auto-retraction handle requires the user to keep the slider engaged in order to keep the blade exposed. If the user stops engaging the slider, as would happen if they dropped the cutting tool, the blade automatically recesses into the handle. This adds a level of safety.

Slice offers both options for its box cutters and utility knives. Slice also offers a third design that ups the safety game: a smart-retraction utility knife or what some call a self-retracting utility knife. Similar to the auto-retraction model, the user must keep the slider engaged to keep the blade exposed. Additionally, the blade must stay in contact with the material it’s cutting. So, for instance, if the utility knife slips during a cut but the user still has the slider engaged, the blade will return into the handle.

Another unique feature of Slice’s smart-retracting utility knife is the Ergo Pull™ slider: it is engaged by pulling the slider instead of pushing. Third-party testing shows that allowing the user to slide and cut in the same direction reduces fatigue in the hand, arm, and forearm.

Ergonomic Design and Built to Last

M4qivlswfqbnsk3zcbor - hsi -

The Slice box cutter features a unique, award-winning J-hook design. The wrap-around style of the handle provides a comfortable grip and easy cutting action, while also protecting the hand from potentially hazardous objects like nails or staples. The handle also features storage for a spare blade, and no tools are required to change the blade.

Conventional box cutters typically expose the blade up to an inch. The Slice box cutter blade is exposed just enough to cut through single- or double-walled corrugated cardboard. This saves merchandise in the box from being damaged. Manufacturers and retailers lose millions of dollars each year to items ruined before they’re even out of the box!

Box cutters are excellent for making long, straight cuts, as is required when opening or breaking down a cardboard box. The Slice utility knife is more robust and allows for more blade exposure. This makes it good to use for deeper cuts in tougher materials. It’s also more maneuverable.

Slice handles are made of glass-filled nylon, which is lightweight but highly durable. They’re made to last in the robust worlds of warehouses, factories, and other industrial environments. One client went so far as to test the box cutter’s mettle by running over with a forklift—with both sets of wheels. No problem! The tool kept on cutting.

Making the Switch to Slice

The goal at Slice is to create safer cutting tools. But, you won’t realize their benefits only by reading about them. You need to use them. The proof is in safer cutting experiences, and we hear about them daily.

Over half of the Fortune 1000 companies use Slice products. And several industrial businesses who have switched to Slice have tracked their success. International Paper, Flowserve, and NBCUniversal, among many others, have made Slice a part of their safety culture and have experienced a reduction or total elimination of lacerations since making the switch.

At Slice, we love to spread the safety message through our Workplace Safety Blog in addition to receiving feedback. We invite you to share your Slice safety story.

Share this article

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Slice

Since 2008, Slice, Inc. has been rethinking safe cutting. By leveraging the properties of advanced ceramics, Slice created the world’s first finger-friendly® blade edge. This remarkable technology reduces the danger of lacerations. Slice supports OHS professionals with safer tools and our Workplace Safety Blog

Visit Website

POPULAR POSTS BY Slice

Edc folding knife 1a - hsi -

Press Release

EDC Folding Knife Brings Safety to Every Day Carry

Pic3 0 39 600 900 - hsi -

Press Release

Metal-Handle Utility Knives

Pic1 0 448 1152 2048 - hsi -

Press Release

Give Lacerations the Cut

Screenshot202019 04 0820at2010. 22. 16 200 0 899 1600 - hsi -

Press Release

Slice®: Safety Handles and Safety Blades

Slice20knife 0 194 1196 2126 - hsi -

Press Release

World First Finger-Friendly® Folding Utility Knife

Get email updates

Sign up for the HSI newsletter

Keep up-to-date through the power of email with Europe's largest audited safety magazine - delivering the latest news and products to satisfy all your occupational safety needs.
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

FEATURED ARTICLES

Article

 Thameslink Traffic Management Programme

Press Release

‘Working At Height’ Remains Biggest Danger

Press Release

“Uncertainty and Ignorance” Risks More Asbestos Deaths

Advertisement

SOCIAL MEDIA

HSI on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/HSIMagazine/

Advertisement

SOCIAL MEDIA

HSI on Twitter

hsimagazine HSI Magazine @hsimagazine ·
25 Jan

Global gas sensing leader @ionscience has today formally announced the addition of a high-specification Particulate Matter (PM) sensor to its portfolio.

Read all about this exciting addition!
https://www.hsimagazine.com/press-release/worlds-best-performing-particulate-matter-pm-sensor-now-available-from-ion-science-ltd/

#hsimagazine #ionscience #particulatematter

Reply on Twitter 1618280038557970432 Retweet on Twitter 1618280038557970432 Like on Twitter 1618280038557970432 Twitter 1618280038557970432

Advertisement

SUBSCRIBE

Stay up to date with our newsletter

    • Keep up-to-date with Europe’s largest audited safety magazine

 

    • Delivering the latest news and products to satisfy all your occupational safety needs

 

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Subscribe

SUBSCRIBE TO HSI MAGAZINE

5 reasons to subscribe to our digital and print package

  • Stay up to date from anywhere in the world, with instant access to the latest issue straight from your phone, tablet or laptop.
  • Trust that you’re getting the best content from our range of internationally accredited authors.
  • Get full access to our archives and see how occupational safety has evolved with us over the years.
  • Enjoy our monthly newsletter curated with up-to-the-minute news and a selection of editor’s top picks.
  • Hot off the press and straight to your door – look forward to your own glossy copy of HSI, delivered five times a year
Subscribe View Subscription levels

STAY SAFE & INFORMED

Subscribe to the best health & safety articles, news, products and regulations

Find out more

Stay up to date with our newsletter

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

ABOUT

  • About HSI International
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us

YOUR ACCOUNT

Sign In Register Account Subscribe to HSI

RESOURCES

Request Media Pack

CONNECT

ACCREDITATIONS

Copyright Bay Publishing 2023. All Rights reserved.

Designed & Built by:
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy
We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. By clicking “Accept”, you consent to the use of ALL the cookies.
Cookie settingsACCEPT
Manage consent

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.
CookieDurationDescription
cookielawinfo-checbox-analytics11 monthsThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics".
cookielawinfo-checbox-functional11 monthsThe cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional".
cookielawinfo-checbox-others11 monthsThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary11 monthsThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance11 monthsThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance".
viewed_cookie_policy11 monthsThe cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.
Functional
Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.
Performance
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
Analytics
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.
Others
Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet.
SAVE & ACCEPT