Selection Guidelines for Foot Protection
As mentioned in the previous section, safety shoes and boots should provide protection from impact, compression, and punctures.
Impact protection: Safety shoes or boots with impact protection are required when carrying or handling materials such as packages, objects, parts, or heavy tools that could be dropped, as well as for other activities where objects might fall onto the feet.
Compression protection: Safety shoes or boots with compression protection are required for work activities involving skid trucks (manual material handling carts) around bulk rolls (such as paper rolls) and around heavy pipes, all of which could potentially roll over an employee's feet.
Puncture protection: Safety shoes or boots with puncture protection would be required where employees could step on sharp objects such as nails, wire, tacks, screws, large staples, or scrap metal, which could lead to foot injuries.
It's important to recognize that specific jobs may require additional protection beyond what has been discussed in this module.
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