Things get messy when any of these happen to your work footwear: you pick the wrong or less appropriate ones,fail to detect the necessary features,or end up using them for a short period of time. These are the feet. After all, they carry our body weight and influence everything throughout our lives. Table of ...
It is great to be concerned about foot safety.Yes, safety toe (or, popularly steel toe) is the prime feature whenever you think about protecting the feet at work. At least, wherever you are working in a risky environment where things may fall or roll over the forefoot.Technology is moving forward at lightning ...
Steel toe is the classic safety feature that protects workers all over the world, especially hard working people in the United States use them more often. There’s a common myth: toe protection means steel toe. Even when we mean any safety toe, we search for steel toe. Why not? Steel toes are enough for forefoot ...
Composite toes are by far the lightest yet affordable caps. In fact, comp toe is the new steel toe… better, lighter, stronger, safer. Do they provide enough hardness and protection? Yes, they must. That’s the basic requirement you know! Just never buy comp caps that do not pass ASTM, ANSI or other tests. The ...
The fact is, if safety toe was less important, you would not have spent money on them and would not have considered them. So, it is clear that you need to dig deeper into all the safety toe options available. Table of Contents The Importance of Safety Measurements in Steel or any other Safety Toe The 9 ...
Previously, you knew that carbon is 5 times stronger than steel in the same density. But what about carbon nanotechnology? Well, some of these products are 300-400 times stronger than good old iron alloys infused with carbon AKA steel! So, if- aluminum was the new steel toe,composite toe was the newer ...
Yeah, you’ve got me! I’m a big advocate of comp and nano toes but there’s nothing as reassuring as metals. I mean, how would you express hardness (thus resulting into intuitive reliability)? Yup, people always say, as hard as steel. You may have forsaken steel (at best), how can you go for non metallic ...
Footwear construction is utterly important yet less discussed. Why? Yes, we tend to focus more on durability, comfort, safety, price, fitting, specialized features and most of all, we are aware of the look. So, a crucial point is left behind: How my shoe or boot is constructed and how would it benefit me? ...
We always ask this question: why are Red Wing, Danner, Timberland and Keen boots so expensive? Top brands like these are constantly making dependable shoes and boots. Many of their products are expensive, yet we recommend them. We don’t recommend them for a fluffy commission or something like ...
Now that we’ve written many times `use more than one pair for work’, it’s time to make it clearer. Your body will heal back if you use more than one pair. Let me explain that- human feet are not designed to be supported by the same platform all the time! Your feet need variations. If you always wear the ...
We suffer a lot when it comes to comfort. Is it a single feature? Does it depend on any particular area of your shoes? No. Comfort is rather like oxygen. Significantly present in the air, water, fire, every living thing and in the rust and decays. But, not visible. Yes, boot comfort depends on everything. The ...
Hey! It is crucial for our valued readers to get the most out of our footwear grading system which is called ‘ShoeAsk Points’. There’s another parameter: ‘Level of Recommendation’. These are not essentially correlated. Table of Contents What is `ShoeAsk Points’?What’s ‘Level of Recommendation’ then?Why did ...
