Learning how to use kitchen equipment properly is the key to personal safety. How will you ensure your employees’ safety without proper safety measures? We’re here to help you learn how to use your commercial meat slicer with confidence, so read on for more.

Proper Training

Your first line of defense in keeping your employees safe is to train them properly on using meat slicers. Teach them about various points of risk and places on the machine that can injure them. Show them how to correctly operate, clean, and maintain the slicer. Teach them to perform a cursory inspection of the slicer before using it. If they notice a possible point of malfunction before use, they’ll be better apt to address this problem.

Use Cut-Resistant Gloves

Meat slicers have sharp blades. If you touch a blade that sharp—even if it’s not moving—it can cut you. Use cut-resistant gloves whenever you need to touch the blade, whether you’re cleaning, sharpening, or removing it. They will make you far less likely to get cut by the blade.

Don’t Touch the Blade Directly

Don’t touch the blade directly without cut resistance gloves. Meat slicers cut through tendons and muscles by design. You don’t want to experience that kind of nasty cut. If you see an employee handling a blade and touching the sharp side, do a refresher with them and stress the importance of blade safety.

Know the Process

The first steps of using a professional-grade meat slicer are opening the meat package and placing the meat on the machine. Close it and hold the meat firmly in place. Ask yourself how thick you want the slices to be, and move the blade closer or farther away from you. You can even cut a sample slice to determine thickness. Finally, turn on the machine and begin to make the slicing motions. You should perform this step gently, and keep calm to stay consistent.

Clean Your Slicer

Cleaning your machine is an integral part of the meat-slicing process. Clean every crevice of the equipment, from the carriage surface to the blade cover. Wear cut-resistant gloves during this process. If you perform all these actions appropriately, you can use your commercial meat slicer confidently and safely.