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CSA adds slip resistance to footwear standard update 12/21/2009
Canadian Occupational Safety E Magazine - December 2009

"The Canadian Standards Association has updated its CSA Z-195 Protective Footwear Standard to include slip-resistance or slip-resisting footwear.

The new edition of Z-195 sets out requirements for the communication or labeling of slip-resistance performance data on all safety footwear claiming to be slip-resistant, slip-resisting or anti-slip. In a statement, CSA said the new requirements were set after a test procedure based on a European standard has been agreed to by the footwear industry.

Also new to this latest edition are performance requirements and an impact test procedure for metatarsal (top-of-the-foot) guards, CSA said."

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