Currently, more common protective footwear including safety shoes, insulated shoes, anti-static and conductive shoes, steel shoes and shoe covers, cold shoes, etc., in addition to the sole of insulation suitable for road construction workers, construction workers soles suitable reinforcement, Good food, wine workers soles moisture protection shoes. The main function of protective footwear for the working environment and conditions set generally have a non-slip, anti-piercing, anti-extrusion function, the other is with a specific function, such as anti-conductive, anti-corrosion.

　　safety shoe market Snub
　　If people do not wear helmets, after suffering injuries, due to injuries to the head, is likely to cause serious injury or even death, but do not wear protective shoes, by contrast, the damage will be much lighter, it is less life-threatening. It is also for this reason that the right of workers to wear protective footwear is often overlooked. According to Knight, Dongguan shoe factory operator safety supervision Luo Baihui, a colleague went to construction site inspection, found that many workers are wearing shoes, and even slippers. And in accordance with the provisions of the construction site workers must work requires, wearing protective toe safety shoes, hard objects to avoid crushing, metal objects such as foot sprain.

　　Foot Protection lack of supervision is not in place one of the reasons. Workers should wear what kind of shoes, worn shoes need to have the kind of protection, the lack of people to oversee this work. Although some companies to check security officers, but its intensity is often enough, or security officer can not find qualified workers in protective footwear. Some workers believe that units allotted overalls and hats, but is uniform dress, or a kind of welfare, labor protection products coupled with some really were not suited to the needs of modern production, resulting in long-term lack of attention to labor protection products, especially for hand and foot protection and life safety of these seemingly unrelated protective equipment.

　　It is understood that a long time, labor protection products industry and other high-tech industries, the lack of investment, development is slow. Some companies produce high-tech, high-standard products are for export it. A protective equipment production enterprises responsible person said, they were not reluctant to sell their products in the domestic market, but limited to the domestic enterprises to invest in labor protection supplies less on national laws and regulations, the implementation of regulations is not enough.

　　Restricting the development of protective footwear shoes cost is an issue. Background on the current point of view, the purchase of protective footwear industries can accept the price is generally low, while low prices will determine the cost of the product, resulting in cheaper quality protective shoes can not pass.

　　new standards to promote protective shoes "face"
　　In fact, China's labor protection products in progressively closer to international standards the pace has not stopped. As early as 1988, the former national labor protection supplies Standardization Technical Committee has carried out standard system of labor protection products, but due to the many changes in institutions, labor protection products on standard revision did not meet expectations. At present, our country in terms of labor protection products have been developed and promulgated a series of national standards and industry standards, but also part of the process of national standards are being developed.

　　PPE protective footwear on the standard, in December 2005, the Central Research Institute of Safety and Environmental Protection, Wuhan Iron and Steel Group presided over the drafting of the development (revised) of the four national standards through the validation, this four standard is "Personal Protective Equipment - shoes Test Methods "," Personal Protective Equipment - Safety shoes, "" Personal Protective Equipment - Protective Footwear "and" Personal protective equipment - Occupational footwear ", covering as an important labor protection products - footwear national quality testing methods and specific quality standards.

　　These four new standard for protective footwear was completed in 2006 a draft for approval, including "Personal protective equipment - Test methods for footwear" will be held in February 2008 formally implemented. This four standards and compared to the original standard, has changed a lot, mainly reflected in the original standard prescribed shoes single function, but due to increasing complexity of the workplace, requiring protective footwear should have a variety of functions, the new standard this adds more functionality. In the original standard, in addition to "Electrically insulating footwear general technical conditions", the rest of the standard will be replaced by the new standard