diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6d92097..aa267a5 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ description = "Macros to take array references of slices"
 license = "BSD-2-Clause"
 repository = "https://github.com/droundy/arrayref"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/arrayref"
+edition = "2021"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 quickcheck = "0.6"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 4c4b418..0bb7be7 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -58,17 +58,16 @@ macro_rules! array_ref {
     ($arr:expr, $offset:expr, $len:expr) => {{
         {
             #[inline]
-            unsafe fn as_array<T>(slice: &[T]) -> &[T; $len] {
-                &*(slice.as_ptr() as *const [_; $len])
+            fn as_array<T>(slice: &[T]) -> &[T; $len] {
+                slice
+                    .try_into()
+                    .expect("array ref len and offset should be valid for provided array")
             }
             let offset = $offset;
-            let slice = & $arr[offset..offset + $len];
-            #[allow(unused_unsafe)]
-            unsafe {
-                as_array(slice)
-            }
+            let slice = &$arr[offset..offset + $len];
+            as_array(slice)
         }
-    }}
+    }};
 }
 
 /// You can use `array_refs` to generate a series of array references