SPG launches FoodProtect cutting tool system purpose-built for food processing

Safety Products Global (SPG) recently announced the launch of its FoodProtect Series, a controlled cutting system purpose-built for food processing and manufacturing facilities.

Combining safety cutters and accessories from Klever, PHC and Slice, FoodProtect can provide food safety, quality assurance, and operations teams a single, standardized way to manage the cutting tools used on the line every day, and the hazards that come with them.

The FoodProtect Series is available now globally through SPG’s distribution network, including most major distributors.

Manage controllable cutting task risks

Food manufacturers don’t set out to buy knives. They set out to make food that is safe to eat. Yet most hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) plans identify cutting-related risk without ever specifying the tool, leaving a documented gap between what a facility’s food safety plan requires and what’s actually in workers’ hands.

FoodProtect was built to close that gap.

“Your HACCP plan identifies hazards. Your cutting tools should too,” said Jarrod Streng, President and CEO of Safety Products Global. “Cutting happens everywhere, and the risk it carries to product integrity and to the people doing the work, has gone largely unmanaged. FoodProtect gives manufacturers a way to manage that risk in their food safety plan and control the controllable."

Address all three HACCP hazards

FoodProtect unifies Klever, PHC, and Slice into a complete safety knife portfolio with 22 NSF-certified and metal-detectable SKUs at launch.

No single brand or product covers all of it alone. The combined portfolio is designed to address all three hazard categories defined under HACCP - biological, chemical, and physical - within one standardized system:

• Food Hazard Prevention: Metal-detectable blades and handles, NSF-certified designs for food zone and non-food zone use, and KLEEN antimicrobial protection (ISO 22196 certified) gives manufacturers tools that can be documented as preventative controls in a written food safety plan.
• Worker Protection: Concealed-blade designs limit exposure at the point of highest laceration risk. Cuts and lacerations account for 30% of all workplace injuries, according to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, with an average cost of $46,000 per claim, according to OSHA. Klever cutters are made in the U.S., reducing supply chain risk alongside injury risk.
• Enterprise Consolidation: FoodProtect is designed to let facilities replace dozens of unsafe, inconsistent utility knives with a standardized set of safety cutters, simplifying procurement and improving facility-wide compliance across shifts and locations.

Two anchor products

The launch is anchored by two products SPG believes no competitor currently matches.

1. The Klever ExcelXD MD is a metal-detectable concealed safety cutter with Smooth-Kut technology, rated to cut double-wall corrugate. The proprietary Smooth-Kut technology helps prevent corrugate from clogging the blade for a faster, more ergonomic cut.
2. The PHC Metal-Detectable Coil Lanyard gives workers up to four feet of flexibility and reach while reducing the risk of dropped or misplaced tools on the line.

Both are available now.