"Personal Protective Equipment - Testing Methods For Shoes" Will Be Implemented Next Year.

The People's Republic of China national standard approval announcement "personal protective equipment footwear testing method" will be implemented next year. Recently, the State Administration of quality supervision, inspection and Quarantine approved 127 national standards and announced them.

Among them, the "personal protective equipment - Footwear Testing Method", with the standard number 120GB/T 20991-2007, will be implemented from February 1, 2008.

It is understood that there are tens of thousands of production safety accidents and more than 10 thousand deaths each year.

Besides, occupational hazards are very serious.

At present, there are more than 1600 toxic and harmful enterprises in China, and the number of occupational hazards is more than 200 million.

In order to reduce casualties and reduce occupational hazards, in addition to establishing and improving various responsibility systems, increasing investment in safety funds, improving safety conditions and facilities, we also need to improve the standard system of personal protective equipment, raise the level of personal protective equipment and enhance the self-protection ability of workers.

At present, the more common protective footwear in China include: safety shoes, insulating shoes, antistatic and anti conductive shoes, steel-making shoes and shoe covers, cold proof shoes, etc., and other protective shoes suitable for road workers' soles, which are heat resistant for the construction workers, and are suitable for the sole soles of construction workers, and are suitable for food and wine makers.

The function of protective footwear is mainly set according to working conditions and conditions. Generally, it has anti-skid, anti piercing and anti extrusion functions. Besides, it has specific functions, such as electric conduction and corrosion prevention.

Data show that after 50 years of development, China's personal protective equipment industry has become an industry with relatively complete categories, relatively stable production, supply and marketing, relatively abundant product varieties, and basically meeting the needs of production. It has played an important role in reducing casualties and protecting workers' health.

However, due to various reasons such as lagging behind, personal protective equipment is ignored by most people, especially the protection of hands and feet, which seems to be unrelated to the safety of life.

Although China's pace towards the EU and ISO standards has not stopped in terms of personal protective equipment, there is still a gap.

With the progress of society, people's demand for the variety and quality of personal protective equipment is getting higher and higher. This provides space for the development of personal protective equipment products, and puts forward higher requirements for its standards.

The state approved "personal protective equipment - Footwear Testing Method" standard is different from the original standard, which is mainly reflected in the original standard of shoes involved in a relatively simple function, but because of the complexity of the workplace, foot protection should be multi-functional, and the new standard adopts international standards, that is, the ISO standard, which is consistent with the European standard.

In addition, safety shoes and protective shoes have added additional functions on the original basis.

Professional shoes, mainly for toe less protection shoes, reflects a comprehensive protective function, higher than the current domestic standards.

The implementation of the new standards is mainly a test of the technological capabilities of enterprises.

In addition to the protective performance, the new standard also has higher requirements in terms of physical mechanical and comfort, which is more embodiment of humanization, which will also lead to the increase of the cost of safety shoes.

It can be expected that some small businesses will go bankrupt because of increasing costs or failing to meet the corresponding standards, while some large enterprises and enterprises with sufficient production capacity can offset the effect of cost increase because of the increase of production capacity, so that enterprises can have better development.