I live in Alaska and composite toes are the most common, snd in my opinion best toe type for our winters because steel will freeze your toes way worse then composite ever would.
One glaring question I have that no one a ever asks is why should you have to recover from wearing safety toe shoes in the first place? Most companies that institute this policy fail to do a proper hazard and risk assessment of if the policy will truly be beneficial for employees. Yes it will help prevent foot injuries if something is dropped on or driven over the foot. What is never considered as a balance is the definite long term consequences of wearing safety toe shoes (versus slip resistant and other safety shoes provides). Things such as hip, knee and ankle pain that WILL be caused due to the unnatural foot and toe mechanics that result over time. Unfortunately no one is willing to do a long term study on this. Only found one from Britain that got no press about a decade ago I believe. There is without a doubt areas that the benefits out way risks, but not the blanket policies OSHA pushes and companies blindly follow with short term thinking without looking at long term outcomes for employees that likely only work for a company a decade or so. Thank you for the great information, but maybe give some consideration to asking the better questions up front.
My job had a boot truck on sight a couple of months ago. We were told by the vendor which ones were available to us per company rules. I picked a pair on that wall. Now two months later, our safety coordinator is walking around with a magnet to test whether or not we have steel toe vs the others. Come to find out, our safety team didn't relay to the boot truck they required steel. Is there a difference in durability from steel, alloy and composite when it comes to strength? Bluescope Buildings apparently doesn't know.
This is ignorance on the part of the safety department to require steel over other safety materials. Basically, someone said steel-toe shoes are required. Someone else took that to mean only steel is acceptable. The ignorance is that steel is the least safe of the three materials mentioned here.
Hello Super Shoes Stores I just found your channel and subscribed. Thank you for the safety toe information. My question may seem off topic, but has to do with Plantar Fasciitis in the heels. After a twelve hour shift I'm pretty much done. I have tried many insoles and different boot makers. None have been able to help. Do you have any reviews or recommendations to help. Again thank you
This is probably too late, but it depends on the shoe. I wear a 9 and 1/2 and some pairs fit me fine in that size but others require me to go up to 10. Most decent manufacturers will put a blurb on the product page to tell you whether or not it runs true to size.
