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effects of wearing Cloud Walker safety shoe versus previous shoe on standing fatique
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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Includes bibliographical references: pages 33-34.