PPE Tutorials - Non Slip Shoes

Avoid­ing slips, trips, and falls is an impor­tant part of keep­ing work­place safe­ty. Slip resis­tant shoes are a vital piece of PPE for this category.

Video Tran­script:

Speak­er 1:

Okay. So the next thing I want to talk about are slip resis­tant shoe cov­ers. I get a ton of ques­tions about these.

Speak­er 2:

Well, these are actu­al­ly real­ly great and real­ly impor­tant. About a third of all the acci­dents that hap­pened in the Budd. Group are peo­ple slip­ping and falling and so our pol­i­cy of the Budd Group is that our employ­ees need to wear slip resis­tant shoes or shoe cov­ers any­time they’re doing wet work or are in a wet environment.

Speak­er 2:

So any­time they’re mop­ping or maybe clean­ing up after a rain or some­thing like that, it’s very impor­tant to wear these.

Speak­er 1:

Okay. What if my employ­ees have their own slip resis­tant shoes?

Speak­er 2:

I would say that that is great. I would love to see some type of doc­u­men­ta­tion, like a receipt show­ing that they are just to be total­ly sure. But the truth is, a slip resis­tant shoe that actu­al­ly has slip resis­tant qual­i­ties is going to be even bet­ter than a cov­er because it’s on all the time, it’s tight, it’s tied prop­er­ly and we don’t have to wor­ry about tak­ing it on and off. So I think that’s a great option, though I do think it’s very impor­tant that we have some type of documentation.

Speak­er 2:

There’s a lot of shoes out there that say some­where in the descrip­tion that they’re slip-resis­tant but they haven’t actu­al­ly had a slip resis­tant des­ig­na­tion on them. Just like get­ting steel toed shoes. You may get some­thing that feels like it has a hard toe but that does­n’t mean it has a steel toe in it. So it’s real­ly impor­tant to know that they are actu­al­ly slip resis­tant shoes.

Speak­er 2:

We actu­al­ly would encour­age peo­ple to look into shoes from Shoes for Crews, which is where we get these from.

Speak­er 1:

Okay, great.

Speak­er 2:

So ques­tion for you, how do you guys keep up with these at your account?

Speak­er 1:

So what we do here at Con­verse is we keep sev­er­al pairs, in var­i­ous sizes, in all of the jan­i­to­r­i­al clos­ets so that if any­one needs them when they’re work­ing in the build­ing and doing wet work, they can go to the clos­et, locate the slip resis­tant cov­ers, use them, and then return them to the clos­et so they’re ready for the next person.

Speak­er 2:

That’s great. I think that’s a great solu­tion as well as, if some­body wants these and maybe they’re doing wet work all the time, that’s almost our sole job func­tion, it’s total­ly okay for our employ­ees to keep a pair of these and wear them all the time.

Speak­er 2:

The only thing is we want to make sure when we’re doing that, that on a dai­ly basis we’re check­ing and mak­ing sure that these grooves are cleared out because some­times they’ll get clogged up with chem­i­cal or they might get clogged up with dust or debris and if they start get­ting clogged up with stuff, they’re not doing the job they’re sup­posed to do.

Speak­er 2:

So that’s these things. I appre­ci­ate you talk­ing about them.

Speak­er 1:

Absolute­ly.

Speak­er 2:

Let’s move on to the next thing.

Speak­er 1:

Great.

Speak­er 3:

Pro safe­ty tip num­ber two. All employ­ees must wear slip resis­tant shoes or shoe cov­er if you’re work­ing around a wet envi­ron­ment. You’re encour­aged to wear your own slip resis­tant footwear as well, as long as you can show some sort of doc­u­men­ta­tion of your shoes slip resis­tant qualities.

Speak­er 3:

If you need shoe cov­ers, ask your man­ag­er about how to find them. Before you put them on, make sure there’s no build-up along the grooves under­neath the shoe cover.

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