Don’t be surprised when in the next year you begin seeing a different safety label on the inside of protective footwear. A new ASTM label will replace the familiar ANSI Z41 label that provides the consumer with product safety information.
“This is a significant change,†says Rick Johnson, senior executive vice president of Michelin Footwear. “A safety director is used to looking inside a shoe and seeing an ANSI label with all the typical ANSI nomenclature about what the product is meant to do.â€