If you work in industrial units or construction sites, factories, and chemical plants, you must wear special shoes to prevent injuries to your feet. These shoes are known as safety trainers. On the other hand, ordinary trainers have no protective function as such but are worn to cover your feet while walking or running and to safeguard them from rough surfaces and dirt and for comfort purposes.
RS Components showcases a wide variety of high-quality safety trainers and safety boots and shoes from leading brands such as Dickies, DeWalt, and Dr. Martens among others, to suit many requirements.
What is the basic difference between a safety trainer and an ordinary trainer? Let us find out.
Function
As mentioned in the introduction, safety trainers are used in a wide variety of special working environments, including hazardous settings, construction sites, laboratories, and while working around heavy equipment. Safety shoes are meant to provide protection to your feet against a host of hazards such as impact injuries, chemicals, ankle protection, toe protection, etc.
Ordinary shoes are used for walking where there is no safety hazard.
Design
When designing safety trainers, the primary consideration is ensuring the wearer’s safety against hazardous conditions, extreme climate, chemical splashes, and greasy wet floors. These trainers are constructed with special features like protective toe caps, steel midsoles, anti-skid soles, static, and dissipation.
On the contrary, ordinary trainers do not necessarily come with special features like the ones mentioned above and consider features such as beauty, comfort, fashion, and lightness in order to cater to the needs of consumers.
Material
A safety trainer is made with high-temperature resistance, antistatic materials, and other protective coatings, as opposed to a regular shoe made of breathable fabric or synthetic leather.
Benefits of safety trainers in comparison to ordinary trainers
- Toe protection: Safety trainers come with a reinforced toe cap that ensures that your feet are protected from impacts. Toe caps also ensure that your feet are not injured when you walk over sharp objects and even when objects penetrate or cut through your shoes.
- Anti-skid: The anti-skid sole safeguards the wearer from slipping on greasy or wet floors. Despite all the slips and trips, your feet may experience, the anti-slip safety trainer ensures they stay protected. Additionally, they prevent falls when people do not wear shoes with proper treads on them, which are very common when people are using ladders.
- Chemical and liquid resistance: Safety trainers are resistant to chemicals and hazardous liquids making them safe to be used in chemical and industrial units. RS Components deals with a number of safety trainers that are crafted with non-corrosive materials that meet the most challenging health and safety demands.
- Electrical protection: Safety trainers are made from materials that conduct electricity poorly, which reduces the possibility of an electrical accident. Hence, naked wires, coils, good conductors of electric current, etc., no longer pose a significant threat. Safety trainers come with a conductive insole that prevents the build-up of static electricity as well as minimizes the risk of electrocution.
- Fire protection: Fires from industrial facilities, chemical burns, and burns from other flammable materials can cause dangerous burns. Wearing safety trainers can protect your feet from chemical splashes, metal splashes, and other hazardous substances that could burn the foot.
RS Components has a number of high-quality safety trainers from leading manufacturers. To know more about our safety trainers, visit our website.
