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03 Oct

Notifications

New Blog

October 3, 2018
By Greg Bastianelli
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Hello and welcome to our new blog! We look forward to helping our customers with this new blog and, in turn, learning more about our customers needs and applications. We can learn from you just as much, if not more, than what you can learn from us. We feel this will help us better understand your real world needs in the workplace. We look forward to hearing from you, soon!

03 Oct

Notifications, Proper Usage

Safe Cutting Practices

October 3, 2018
By Greg Bastianelli
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When asked for advice as to how to best protect oneself from accidents when cutting boxes or other materials, we advise to always keep your free hand out of the cut path. This also goes for any other parts of the body that may be in the path. Your free hand is first and foremost since you will likely be using it while cutting/opening boxes, etc. Follow-through cuts and lacerations can happen with any type of cutter; safety cutters are not completely exempt from this type of accident. Some may be better than others, however, it is best to assume that ANY device will cut you regardless of its safeguards. Device failures can happen at any time and there are numerous accounts of this happening. One of our staff members experienced this very issue while using a smart self retracting safety...