Cutting processes are basic to all organizations’ operations, and yet we find they often are overlooked, causing employee injuries and lost production. Occupational hand injuries as well as injuries (cuts, lacerations and puncture wounds) to other body parts are rampant, and employers need to do everything in their power to promote safety and reduce these accidents (as well as other ones, such as chemical spills that can be caused by machinery. Cut injuries generally are every company’s No. 2 injury category, driving up costs and injury rates. The most common cause of accidents related to box cutters occurs when an employee uses a standard knife and is distracted or slips while cutting the top of a box and strikes his or her forearm or thigh with an exposed blade.
Your challenge is to use the ceramic blade technology from Slice, Inc. to create a safe and versatile box opener for use in the home and industrial settings. You may also choose to extend the ceramic blade technology to other jobs in the medical profession to reduce costs, improve safety and reduce infection. The design of the device should:
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