The effects of wearing Cloud Walker safety shoe versus previous shoe on standing fatique /
The goal of this study was to determine if wearing Cloud
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | The goal of this study was to determine if wearing Cloud Walker safety shoes would effect various indicators of standing fatigue. Physiological and subjective parameters were studied. The physiological parameters studied were skin temperature of the foot, blood pooling (swelling) of the foot and the low leg, curvature and shrinkage of the spinal column, stature, flexibility of the hamstring muscles, and heart rate. The subjective parameters studied from a body part discomfort survey were feet, ankle, low leg, knee, thigh, hips/buttocks and low back. The Cloud Walker safety shoe is a sneaker type safety shoe. To help reduce the weight of the shoes, the steel toe cap has been replaced with a non-metallic, nonconducting toe cap. Additional safety features that the shoe had to exhibit for this study were the anti-slip and electrostatic discharge characteristics and the lack of holes in the toe box. A field study was conducted in a light manufacturing facility. Volunteers from areas in the facility which required the employee to stand for a significant portion of the day were given a pair of Cloud Walker safety shoes to wear for a month after base line data had been collected on them for the variables studied. At the end of the month, data was collected again on the variables and statistical analysis was performed on the data comparing the change from the start to the end of the work shift. The results show no statistically significant differences for any of the variables studied. The subjective measures did report positive significant differences for two variables when the data at the start of the work shift was compared between the two shoe groups. The Cloud Walker also reported feeling less discomfort in all seven variables studied at the end of the work shift compared to when they wear their previous shoes. |
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| Item Description: | Vita. "Major subject: Safety Engineering". |
| Physical Description: | x, 44 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references: pages 33-34. |