Metal Detectable Safety Knives

Food-Safe Safety Knives & Box Cutters for BRCGS/HACCP Facilities

Metal detectable safety knives are a simple way to strengthen knife control and foreign-body prevention in BRCGS and HACCP environments. Our range combines food-safe, metal & X-ray detectable housings with stainless-steel blades to support compliance without sacrificing cutting performance. Choose from auto-retractable and concealed-blade designs - disposable or re-usable - for everyday tasks across the factory and warehouse, including box cutting, tape splitting, shrink-/plastic-wrap, pallet strapping, sacks/bags, bubble wrap and plastic netting. If your teams search for box cutters, utility knives or Stanley knives, you’ll find detectable equivalents here to satisfy both production and audit requirements. Explore by application or feature to specify the right knife for each task and help reduce injuries while improving contamination control. (Always verify detectability on your own equipment and issue knives under a documented knife-control procedure).

What is a metal detectable safety knife?
A safety knife built from metal-detectable (and often X-ray visible) polymer with a stainless-steel blade, designed to support HACCP/BRCGS foreign-body control while reducing laceration risk.

Metal detectable vs X-ray detectable — what’s the difference?
Metal detectable materials trigger metal detectors; X-ray detectable show contrast on X-ray systems. Many knives are both, but always validate on your equipment.

Which safety mechanism should we specify?
For box cutting and corrugate, choose auto-retract. For film, straps and bags, choose concealed-blade to minimise lacerations and product damage.

Do detectable knives meet BRCGS requirements?
They support compliance when used within a documented knife-control procedure (ID, allocation, inspection, breakage reporting, and disposal). Compliance depends on your site controls.

Can we reduce injuries and product damage at the same time?
Yes—concealed-blade designs and fixed cut-depth greatly reduce lacerations and prevent scoring of packaging and primary product.

How should we roll out knife control across multiple lines?
Standardise by task, zone colour and model, train users, log issue/return, and audit with shadow boards and sharps containers.