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Posted By Kenny McGillivray
Do any of you work in an industry where staff use Stanley knives or equivalent to open boxes.
Safety knives which automatically retract have been introduced to overcome, but we now have staff complaining of sore thumbs from holding blade in the working position against the spring.
any ideas would be appeciated
thanks
kenny
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Posted By fats van den raad
Kenny
I have staff that use the same type of self-retracting knives. The ones we use have the blade button on the side of the knife that makes it more ergonomical. There are left and right handed versions to cater for both "handedness".
You don't actually have to have your thumb on the button all the time to operate the knive. You place your thumb on the slide button, slide it forward to expose the blade, pierce the cardboard and then cut with a pulling motion. Once you start the cut you can remove your thumb, as the pulling motion and the "grab" of the cardboard keeps the blade out. As soon as the cut is finished, the blade automatically retracts under spring tension.
I have never had any staff complain about thumb problems. Maybe a bit of training in using the knife correctly is required for your staff
Fats
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Posted By Merv Newman
Fats,
yeah but. I know these knives and you are right in saying that the only correct way to use a knife is to use it the way you are trained to do.
Can we get back to BBS where you are congratulated for using your knife correctly, or do we have to allways kick ass whenever the knife is used wrongly ?
SS
Merv
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Posted By fats van den raad
Merv
You know I agree with that. The question Kenny was asking though was about thumb fatigue from holding the slider forward all the time. My point is that it is not nesesary to hold the slider forward all the time. Maybe employees don't know that, so you show them, positively re-inforce it and hey presto, the reward for using your knife correctly is no thumb fatigue.
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Posted By David Mains
Hi Kenny,
I previously worked in a company where these type of knives were introduced. It was successful although there were a few initial teething issues. I think that it comes down to staff having to use a different method of operation after many years of using other knives. There was also some 'resistance to change' from some of the workforce.
As has been touched on previously, once they became more familiar with the knives these problems quickly resolved over a short period of time.
Regards,
David.
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Posted By Ian Minter
there is a company called Moving Edge that do safety knives that may have a knife to suit your needs, unfortunately I dont have their contact details.
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Posted By Geoff Ferneyhough
Kenny,
In a previous company I sourced a suitable safety knife that was used to open boxes. The blade remained out without being held, but was protected.
The Company was called the Cutter Company my Contact was a Martyn Thomson and the knife was the S3 Safety Cutter, I have unfortunatly mislaid his contact details, try a google search.
The knife was very good and reduced the number of knife cuts the staff were getting.
Regards
Geoff
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Posted By ANTHONY EVANS
Just had a couple of"safety knives "on trial
from The Safety Knife Company. www.safetyknife.net. 01452 318922
I found them very helpful and supplied the trial knives free of charge , hope this helps
Regards
Tomy
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