Development and implementation of procedures for testing and assessing the microclimate of safety shoes used in experimental conditions

Project manager: Wiesława Kamińska Ph.D. (Eng.)

Project summary:

Appropriate methods of assessing safety shoes, results of testing their functional properties, and indispensable testing equipment are all basic requirements for a correct design and manufacture of more functional and comfortable models of safety shoes. With that in mind, procedures for testing and assessing the microclimate of safety shoes were developed and implemented. Also developed and implemented were procedures for determining indices characterizing the hygienic properties of materials used for making shoes, which - in turn - determine the parameters of the microclimate. Requirements for the level of the indices that describe the hygienic properties of shoes and the methods of establishing them were also developed. Those indices also serve as criteria for assessing shoes from the point of view of physiological comfort. A test stand, in which tests of selected materials used for making shoes were conducted, was designed and constructed. The main stage of the task consisted in developing the principles and in constructing a stand for measuring and registering humidity and the temperature of the air that surrounds the foot in a safety shoe in conditions that simulate its use at a workstation.

Unit: Department of Personal Protective Equipment

Duration: 01.01.2002 – 31.07.2004