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19--Personal Protective Equipment with energized electric equipment is remote, shoes or boots are equipped with reinforced soles or inner soles of flexible metal (Fig 19-45) Special shoes made with a sbtched and cemented construcbon are available for elec tricians These shoes serve as good insula tors, so when they are repaired, avoid the use of nails which will destroy their msulabng value For wet condibons such as are found m dames and breweries, leather shoes with wood soles, or wood-soled sandals worn over shoes, are effective Wood soles provide good foot protection on jobs which require walking upon hot surfaces which are not hot enough to char the wood Wood soles have been so generally used by men handling hot asphalt that they are some- gasoline or other volatile hydrocarbons These shoes do not have conductive soles They have nonferrous eyelets and nails, and metal box toes are coated with a nonferrous metal Electrical hazard shoes Electrical hazard shoes are intended to min imize hazards resulbng from contacts with electric current where the path of the current would be from the point of contact to the ground No metal is used in construction, ex cept for the box toe which is insulated from the rest of the shoe If damp or badlv worn, they cannot be depended on for protection Special shoes In some industries, such as construction, where there may exist an increased hazard from protruding nails, and where contact 516 Fic 19-45 --This type of foot protection is worn extensively m the construcbon industry A flex ible steel insole prevents the nail from punctunng the foot