Shoes - Safety Description: rigIf you've ever worked at or been around a construction site, industrial plant or the oil and gas sector, chances are you've been asked to dress up in full PPE (personal protective equipment), complete with some rather large, heavy footwear. These shoes aren't just for style; these heavy-duty boots, or safety shoes, as they're known, are specially made with reinforced toes to protect the feet from hazards such as heavy objects.Safety shoes don't just include steel-toe boots, which are standard issue on many sites locally. Other types of boots and shoes that can provide traction, arch support and other safety benefits also fall in this category. Most times, the company's HSE or safety head determines what kind of safety shoe the employees need, based on a hazard assessment that determines what kinds of risks—such as slipping and falling or sharp objects—are most prevalent. Whatever the boot of choice, safety shoes have a valuable role to play in employee safety. They offer moderate protection from falling objects, puncture protection, cutting hazards prevention, electrical hazard protection, slips/trips/falls protection, fatigue prevention, burn prevention, and extreme weather protection.Primitive safety boots date as far back as the end of WWII, where simple, wooden shoes called 'sabots' were shaped and hollowed out from a single block of wood, and protected French and Breton peasants from sharp, falling objects, and kept their toes safe in case a horse or cow stepped on th...
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