Guides To Find A Good Pair Of Steel Toe Shoes

Personal protective equipment refers to "all equipment for individuals to wear or use at work (including square clothing worn in inclement weather), and these equipment protect individuals from one or more safety or health hazards." Examples are Safety Shoes , safety helmets, gloves, eye protection, breathing or hearing protection, high-visibility clothing, safety shoes, and seat belts. Personal protective equipment should only be regarded as the last line of defense in the control of hazards. Its role is to supplement the deficiencies of other safety measures, not to replace them.

When choosing personal protective equipment, it is necessary to conduct a risk assessment of the work to determine which equipment is most suitable. The selected personal protective equipment must be selected to meet the standards specified by the law or internationally recognized standards to ensure its effectiveness. Employers have the responsibility to guide, train and supervise the use of personal protective equipment, to ensure that employees use appropriate personal protective equipment correctly at work and are aware of the restrictions on their use. And employees must use appropriate personal protective equipment at all times when facing the hazard.

Safety Shoes

These days steel capped shoes are big business both from a safety point of view and inverse snobbery as a fashion accessory for the punks. To decide how to find the best pair of steel toe shoes for your purpose I decided to review the review sites

Safety Shoes- It caters for special needs as in large sizes and wide shoes as well as splitting the sales into male and female. They have a good clearance section, which clearly shows there current offers. The price range is very wide and the selection is enormous.

Shoes for Crews deal in steel capped shoes for the industrial workplace. The emphasis of this site is slip resistant shoes, both for the dress occasion, walking and for industrial shoes. There are a wide range of styles and prices but all made by the Shoes for Crews.

Come4Buy eShop .They cover all price ranges from $50-100, but the majority of their goods of $50-$65 and Free Shipping.

With the advent of more and more rigorous legislation surround safety and the use of personal protection equipment in the workplace there has been a surge in the number of manufacturers of safety footwear and safety boots. Last year alone sales rose by a staggering 240% up on the previous year by an equally staggerig 78%, figures which will no doubt prick up the ears of sales representatives up and down the country.

Manufacturers from all over Europe are now hot on the safety footwear bandwagon with Italy leading from the front with it’s stylish Cofra brand. Traditional manufacturers from the USA and Nordic regions are standaing firm with their traditional hiking style shoes, the predominant forces being Caterpillar, Bobcat, Karrimor and Tuskers.

It’s a hot market to be in and import/export groups from the far east are continually battling out the prices with extremely cheap (and some would say rather dubious quality) copy style shoes. In 2006 there was widespread panic in the industry after China started dumping off surplus stock shoes to Western Europe. Many of the boots were sold at a loss to the companies in a bid to free up cash for the next production run.

Europe battled back in in 2007 they are back at the forefront with tight import legislation across Europe making it extremely difficult for the Far East to trade. High import taxes make the product more expensive than the ‘locally’ manufactured shoes and boots. Chinese importers already had to deal with spiralling fuel costs which meant shipping fees where on the increase and in fact haven’t stopped since.

So it looks like it’s all to play for at the moment and it’s looking that the consumer can be looking forward to a year of good bargains with competition beig very high. Will we see some casualties in the run up to christmas? Who know’s but one things definitely for sure is that while demand remains high we’ll all be keeping our feet firmly on the ground, and hopefully wearing boots that are built to last at a price that’s affordable.