Footwear and health in the work environment

The importance to ensure that staff work safe and comfortable in their work has direct impact for companies.

Employers should optimize their management systems, in order to help speed up any type of process to try to improve the elements of production, resulting in competitive business advance.

Our feet, legs and back are affected by use of inappropriate footwear, What causes that we Let's lower our working efficiency and bad to be in our health. Nobody uses summer shoes in winter and vice versa, so we should do our work activity. We need to know what is the footwear that fits most. Here, You can see different models of recommended shoes for labour work requiring physical effort: Work shoes

How tell which shoe is right for my job?
There are several elements and characteristics of safety shoes that we must know. When choosing correct footwear, we must guide us according to our working conditions and our physical Constitution.
First of all, a tip to to note is the damping in a safety footwear, with a good impact on the soil we can prevent injuries and improve comfort. The legislation speaks of "absorption of energy in the heel (E)"as a requirement for footwear S1 to S5, which guarantees us comfort in the area of the foot that suffers more impact walking.
Second, the safety toe, an obligatory part in all safety footwear. There are classic metal toecaps, they are usually of steel. In the market we can find many models including drop-outs (and templates) non-metallic fabricated base composites or fiberglass. The composites they are assemblages of at least 2 materials well cohesive forming a new material with properties as the elements separately do not have. We got this way more flexible toe, light and greater thermal insulation (steel is not a good insulator) They provide lots of comfort and relieve enough foot.
In third place, the importance of sliding, materials such as TPU (Thermoplastic polyurethane) or natural rubber, they are very resistant to slipping. These three aspects, In addition to compliance with regulations, We need to ask ourselves when selecting a safety footwear and, in this way, contribute to a greater adaptation of PPE to staff. The operator will work more comfortable, safer and better.