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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I remember a company I worked for made it mandatory that all utility knives had to be automatically retractable. The idea was that it would cut down on cutting injuries if the blade automatically retracts.
It ended up having the opposite effect. People became so complacent that the knives would retract that they stopped checking to do it as you would if you manually had to close them. In rare occasions, small stones or malfunctioning springs would stop the blade from retracting completed and people would jam them into their pockets and cut their legs. In the end, there were more cutting injuries after that experiment.
It was a classic case of equipment that was theoretically there to make things safer, but caused a negative behavioral effect that had the opposite effect.
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Too funny, my work made the exact same decision about three weeks ago. I asked why since I always thought the retractable ones were safer but received the same explanation you just provided.
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Last edited by FireGilbert; 12-31-2016 at 02:03 AM.
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