81 High heels
Submitted by Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists
Feet bear the brunt of daily life, and for many workers prolonged standing, badly fitted footwear, and in particular high heels can be a hazard in the workplace. Around two million days a year are lost through sickness as a result of lower limb disorders.
In 2007 the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists launched its working feet campaign to give women some helpful foot care advice on how ‘working feet’ problems can be avoided. Following this campaign in 2008 the TUC issued a guide called Working Feet and Footwear, which includes a checklist for health and safety representatives.
Many employers in the retail sector force women workers to wear high heels as part of their dress code. Wearing high heels can cause long-term foot problems, such as blisters, corns and callus, and also serious foot, knee and back pain and damaged joints. However, more needs to be done to raise awareness of this problem so that women workers and their feet are protected.
Congress calls on all employers who have dress codes that promote high heels to examine the hazards their women workers face and ensure that proper risk assessments are carried out, and that where these show the wearing of high heels is hazardous the high heels should be replaced with sensible and comfortable shoes.
Congress believes high heels may look glamorous on the Hollywood catwalks but are completely inappropriate for the day-to-day working environment.
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Well done for putting forward this motion and showing the British press and media (with honourable exceptions) at its absolute worse when it comes to ‘elf & safety”!
What a load of complete rubbish and drivel has been published about this very sensible and informative motion. How anyone can disagree with any single word of it is beyond me.
This is SUCH East European Claptrap.
Women wearing high heels happens in the work place because the women involved know they can look good. They are worn much less in retail in terms of those on their feet, but for plenty of female professionals, they are a natural choice.
Stop telling wimmin to wear dungarees and the like.