Like a forestry worker’s saw or a tiler’s trowel, your work shoes are an essential part of your everyday working life. And like your tools, your shoes should be treated properly too. It’s the only way to ensure they function properly and protect you in your work or as long as you need them. Without proper care, a saw quickly goes blunt; in the same way, your shoes can lose their breathability or become brittle withou proper attention. This can quickly turn from an annoyance to a real danger. Inadequate care or simple carelessness can quickly cause you to destroy certain features of your shoes that are supposed to protect you.

Unfortunately, we hear of many defects resulting from inadequate or improper care, or because shoes are not used as intended - sadly, we cannot accept returns of such shoes. In line with our motto, “enjoy work”, we want to provide you with tips for optimum shoe care so that you can enjoy a safe pair of shoes from Strauss for as long as possible.

For many people, shoe care primarily means: scrubbing. And they’re not wrong, but that’s just one element. Shoe care can be active and passive. And passive shoe care begins when you choose your shoes: They have to fit well. Unlike trainers, safety shoes do not wear in over time. This can lead to additional stresses on the shoe in the wrong places and can even affect your gait - it’s also not good for your feet and can put you off wearing the shoes altogether. But shoes don't just need to suit your feet, they need to suit your work too. So check carefully to find out which shoes are best suited to your job. If you often work on your knees, your shoes should have toecaps.

Different surfaces require different qualities of soles and the level of safety required also plays an important role. With our intuitive shoe filter, you can compile a personal selection of shoes with the exact features that you require. Your new work shoes should feel good when you first try them on and be well suited to your field of work because, ideally, you will wear them every day for many months or even years of work. It might sound trivial, but how you put your safety shoes on also matters. Our tip is to use a shoehorn to avoid wearing out the heel area unnecessarily.

But there’s much more to passive shoe care. Professional work shoes have to take a lot of strain, so sometimes they need a little break. Because although leather shoes absorb moisture very well, they need up to 24 hours to release it again. For this reason we recommend using two different pairs. This allows one pair to rest before they are put to work, extending the life span of both.