Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Why Wear Safety Footwear?

The two most important Personal Protective Equipment are Safety Shoes and Safety Helmets. The Safety Shoes must be worn in every work place like Workshops, Filling Stations, Terminals, Refineries, Construction sites, Project Sites, Oil/Petrochemical Industries etc. The Safety Helmet must be worn in the Tank Farms, while working under cranes, construction sites, tanker jetties or any other location where "Safety Helmets" obligatory symbols are placed.Protective, safety footwear is essential to ensure safe and healthy feet. Steel toe boots and shoes protect your feet, help prevent injuries to them, and reduce the severity of injuries that may occur in the workplace. According to the National Safety Council, only one out of four victims of job-related foot injury wear any type of safety shoes or boots. The remaining three are unaware of the benefits of protective footwear. Today’s safety footwear is comfortable, flexible, and stylish and provides necessary protection from injury. The foot is the most valuable part of your body subjected to injury in industry. Because of the many potential work hazards, it is important that you discuss with your supervisor the safety shoe, boot, or other protective equipment that you need for your protection.
The OSHA requirements for protective footwear are found within 29 CFR 1910.136. The general requirements of this regulation are that the employer shall ensure that each affected employee use protective footwear when working in areas where there is a danger of foot injuries due to falling or rolling objects, or objects piercing the sole, and where such employee’s feet are exposed to electrical hazards. To ensure you have the best level of protection in your work environment, an effective fit and selection of safety footwear is required.

Protective footwear purchased after July 5, 1994 shall comply with ANSI Z41-1991, “American National Standard for Personal Protection-Protective Footwear,” which is incorporated by reference as specified in Sec. 1910.6, or shall be demonstrated by the employer to be equally effective. Protective footwear purchased before July 5, 1994 shall comply with the ANSI standard “USA Standard for Men’s Safety-Toe Footwear,” Z41.1-1967, which is incorporated by reference as specified in Sec. 1910.6, or shall be demonstrated by the employer to be equally effective.  Hopefully you have replaced those safety boots by now!
There are many instances where the foot and toes would be at risk. In many work places falling and rolling objects, or cuts and punctures are a serious concern. A steel-toe safety shoe would help protect workers from injuries. There are many hazards the average working person comes in contact with everyday. The proper footwear can prevent unnecessary accidents.
It is clear to see that most hazards can be prepared for and avoided entirely. Why should you wear protective footwear? It is a simple precautionary method of keeping yourself safe. If you know the risks of your job then you should prepare for them with safety work and footwear provided to you by workingperson.com.About @WPSBusinessTeam: Like most of the best ideas, Working Person’s store began with disappointment. In October 1994, Dennis Deniger realized that disappointment when he couldn’t find a single store that could outfit him from head to toe with appropriate work wear. So he started his own. He bought a small shoe repair business from Virgil and Joanne Waltz in the small town of Lakeville, Indiana called V&J shoes, and less than 18 years later, that small beginning turned into a multi-million dollar company. Today, with his son Eric Deniger running the family business, Working Person’s Store is the #1 world-wide destination for quality work clothing, work footwear and safety gear, serving thousands of customers daily, on five different continents. And it is one of the 500 fastest-growing privately-owned businesses in the country. We still aren’t the biggest, but we’re proud to be the best. Through the boom of the Internet and the collapse of the economy, Working Person’s Store has remained successful because we have remained focused on our customers. The buying experience is different here. We believe that quality isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity. Which is why we only sell quality products that pass stringent requirements for durability and reliability, and we sell them at a price that you can afford. And we guarantee it, with our exclusive 120% Price Protection Guarantee, and free shipping on orders of $49 or more. We serve businesses and government agencies including all branches of the United States Armed Forces. Our team is dedicated to serving the needs of these organizations and will help you every step of the way. We have attractive programs for groups of all sizes and offer time-saving and cost effective services such as in-house embroidery and screen printing. We are also an approved GSA vendor. We maintain a great selection of work boots, work uniforms, fire-resistant apparel, high visibility apparel, work gloves and safety glasses from great brands like Carhartt Clothing, Wolverine Boots, Dickies Uniforms and Workwear, Danner Boots, Bates Boots, Converse Boots and more. We work to keep our customers updated on the latest developments in work wear, with Workingperson.me. We launched this site to raise awareness about the products we offer, help our customers learn about those products and technology, and provide information for people who might not know about Workingperson.com. We work closely with our retailers to put the most useful information in a place that is easily accessible. Today, as when the business began almost two decades ago, when you shop at Working Person's Store and Workingperson.com, you'll still feel like you're shopping in a small shoe store in a small town in Indiana. Our attention and customer service makes that as true today as it ever was.

1 comment:

  1. Great Information!!! My wife had serious problems with his shoes when she worked in the nursing home. She had to mop floors every shift and she fell more often than the patients did. She put tape all over her shoes on the bottom so that it would help het to stick to the floor. She feel embarrassed when she fell down, and I feel bad for her so I bought her slip resistant shoes, they are really an awesome product. Now she is happy with her job and enjoying his job.

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