Shoe Policy

I am currently working in Human Resources and I am trying t update our current shoe policy. Right now the policy at hand is not working. Any information that can be given will be used to updated or enchance the current shoe policy on hand.

Kindly describe what sort of organisation that you work for and why is a shoe policy important.

Shoe policy is important to protect the employee feet. I work for a manufacturing company we deal with a lot of foam. Some in sheets, buns that we move around with tow motor , hand trucks. The policy we have in place right now clearly states no open toe or open backs. Our QC manager feels if we give example of what we consider a safe shoe that will create a legal problem. Please help. Thanks

Hi
It is a little difficult to answer the question without having details of your local laws. Also you have not provided the current policy, so it is difficult to say why it will not work.
In india, it is mostly a policy for the company to provide a pair of safety shoes to the workers. That way there is no need to define the shoe. Also in india, in many cases it is done as getting workers to buy expensive safety shoes would be a burden given the salary levels paid to such workers.
In your case, knowing the technical requirement, why should it be a problem for you to select a specific type of shoe and Make it mandatory to use ? There will be technical details available in some study for your industry or in the safety regulation. Why not use the same one ?

As it is based in connecticut, you should check OSHA standards at http://www.osha.gov/Publications/osha3151.pdf and also any local laws, as suggested by Saswatabannerjee.