PPE Assessment

[Paul]

Little disgress from masks to PPE boots.
How many of you wear PPE boots out of the work environment?

Both SWMBO and I wear work boots as the norm. Steels, both of us.
We went through a long selection of hiking boots and army style footwear but there is nowt as comfy or as safe as a pair of chukka work boots.
It made sense to us as working boots are designed to be worn in all weathers, conditions, and places. Yet, unlike the others, they remain cheap and cheerful.

I need ankle support, heck I need total leg support and that's another story.
Yet the extra weight (4-5 oz) of the steel is not a factor. The support is great.

When out and about, I must have a magnet inside me that always finds the only bit of wood with a nail in or a coiled up length of rusty barbed wire.
Then for some daft reason that escapes me, I always try to impale my foot on it.
Since wearing work boots with instep protection I've been fine.
It follows that in a disaster, broken buildings, rubble, I'm going to be safer walking round than a posh named pair of hiking boots.

SWMBO wears them when out with the dog and round town. The why was an idiot with a pushchair laden with groceries running over her toes and bruising them so bad she couldn't walk for a week. That wearing hiking boots.
Add dog walking in winter mud and it was a no brainer.
Then, one day, when cutting the grass, the mower ran over her foot. Stalled the motor, cut the leather, but that was it.
£20 for a new pair of boots and a thick ear for me.
Like I said, no brainer.