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Safety Cutters

designed to help prevent accidents.

Active Accident Prevention during cutting operations involving:

• cardboard boxes and strappings
• paper, corrugated pasteboard, plastics
• sheet material
• rubber, linoleum, leather
• foamed plastics and fleece material
• carpeting material
• roofing felt
• and, and, and ...

If Accident Prevention is meant to be more than just a convenient slogan – any and all so-called safety cutters should meet the following minimum requirements:

• automatic Blade edge protection when things get out of control
• safe Blade change without any undue cutting risks
• cutter handles/bodies designed to remain safe when laid down
• solidly mounted Blade

MARTOR Safety Cutters - Active Accident Prevention!

Different techniques are available to increase the prevention of accidents while cutting various types of material.
These are developed by MARTOR and patented.

Safety Technologies - click here!

Cutters and Knives - a frequent cause for cutting accidents

The Retail Trade Division of the German Occupational Accident Insurance Association registered 4194 accidents with cardbox slitters during the period Jan 01, 2008 through Dec 31, 2008.

This is the statistical side of the coin, whereas the real figure is likely to be much higher.

An analysis of occupational accidents in 96 German department stores revealed about 400 cutting accidents per year, with:

• 60% due to uncontrolled cutter movements
• 30% due to an exposed blade after completion of a cutting job
• 6% due to accidental contact with the exposed blade of an idle cutter
• 2% of all injuries are the REGRETTABLE result of wrong handling practices of a box slitter with automatic blade lock, namely in that the user´s thumb remained on the blade push during the cutting process.
• 1% of all cutting accidents are the result of technical box slitter handicaps.
• 1% of all injuries result from the use of cutters with inadequately sized handles tending to blister the inner surface of the hand.

The Result: NO Cutting Accident within the next 12 months!

In other words, the investment paid back in full. After all, the German Federal Institute of Industrial Safety has recently established that each occupational accident represents up to EUR 500, per day in the form of overhead costs.

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