The High Safety Standards And Testing Of High Heel Quality And Safety Are Not Perfect.

"10mm, 30mm, 50mm, 100mm..." This is not simply counting, but measuring high heels. shoes Heel height. Careful consumers can easily find that the height of heels sold in the shopping mall is positively increasing. In high summer, high heeled shoes enter a new round of selling season. Behind the heels are getting higher and higher. The safety risks of high heels are also increasing.

Insiders pointed out that at present, there is no current standard for evaluating the quality of heels in China, and the quality supervision and spot checks of leather shoes do not involve the detection of relevant quality indicators of heels. In light of this situation, the revised "leather shoes" standard considers increasing the relevant indicators related to the quality of the heel. And production enterprises also need to strengthen quality control and active detection, and keep good quality control of heels.

High heel safety risks increase

"Thump and thump"... On July 14th, at the weekend, the 1 floor of the three Hezhuang commercial building in Changping District, Beijing, many women wearing high heeled shoes pushed their shoes and walked past, making the floor clear and crisp.

Reporters on the scene saw that the selection of summer high-heeled shoes consumers are not few. Judging from the products sold by businessmen, most women's shoes are high-heeled shoes. It is not difficult to choose a flat shoe in the mall. "Everyone likes to wear high heels, so the shoes and heels we sell are getting higher and higher." Shopping mall, a women's shoes brand guide, said that the sales of high heeled shoes and heels are basically above 50mm.

In order to cater to the trend of consumption, manufacturers are making the heels of high heels higher and higher. But has the manufacturer considered the quality and safety risks caused by heels? Reporters randomly asked 3 shopping guides on this question. Most of them know that the higher the heel is, the easier it is to wear shoes. However, it is not clear what quality problems are easily caused by high heels, and which kinds of safety risks correspond to different problems. Generally speaking, the safety risks of high heels are not mentioned when selling.

With the progress of science and technology, the manufacturing processes and materials of heels are becoming more and more diverse (mostly rubber, plastic, wood, alloy and synthetic materials), and the style structure is becoming more and more complex.

"Sometimes it is not easy to step on a small hole, and when the foot is pulled out, the heel is broken, or the transverse impact force is produced, and it is broken after being hit." Zhang Haixuan, senior engineer of Shenzhen Institute of Metrology quality testing, who has long been concerned about the quality of high heels, explains that the heels of high heels are potentially dangerous because of their "high" and "fine" characteristics. For example, the antiskid performance of the heel surface is not up to standard, which causes the wearer to slip on the stone road, and the fatigue resistance of the heel is not enough and it breaks, causing the wearer to fall down.

Standards and testing are not yet perfect.

Looking at the quality of leather shoes in recent years, the state or local supervision and spot checks found that the quality of high heels is higher and more stable. For example, in the 1 quarter of 2012, the AQSIQ inspected 120 kinds of leather shoes produced by 120 enterprises in 7 provinces and cities according to the plan. After testing, 113 products met the standards, and the qualified rate was 94.2%.

However, further enquiries revealed that the inspection items involving shoe heels were almost zero in the spot checks of leather shoes, which has been confirmed by industry experts. "It is very rarely involved, usually do not involve in testing." Zhang Haixuan said that the quality supervision and spot check of high-heeled shoes should focus on testing the safety indicators of products, such as heel resistance, shoe wear and chemical performance testing. Plus the usual spot checks are aimed at spot checks of leather products, so the inspection items of shoe heels are less involved.

According to Qi Xiaoxia, Secretary General of the national footwear Standardization Technical Committee, at present, China's footwear standards have requirements for the adhesion of leather heels and the hardness of heel, but the indexes such as lateral impact resistance, fatigue resistance and skid resistance are not written into footwear standards.

According to press enquiries, GB/T22756-2008 leather sandals and QB/T1002-2005 leather shoes make specific numerical requirements for the heel binding force and heel hardness. But compared with the international standard ISO/TR20573 "footwear footwear components performance requirements heel and heel", there is still a big gap in the quality index of heel. This is also one of the reasons for the recall of high heeled shoes exported to China.

"The revised leather shoes standard will add it, which is different from the high standard." Qi Xiaoxia disclosed that the industry standard QB/T1002-2005 will work out relevant quality indicators for heels.

Enterprises need to control internal control

It is reported that the heel quality problem of high heels has attracted industry attention and action. The industry standard QB/T4336-2012, injection molded plastic heel, which was implemented in November 2012, has been used for quality control of plastic high heels, and the heel standards of other materials may also be gradually improved.

In addition, reporters interviewed learned that there is a hidden danger in the quality of heels. One important reason is that domestic enterprises often neglect such quality problems. With regard to the quality control of shoe heel production, journalists interviewed several enterprises in the shoe making industry, all of which encountered "closed doors", including those responsible for the formulation of standards for injection molding plastic heels.

Zhang Haixuan said that his quality inspection institute already had the ability to detect heel quality, but in fact, when the company commissioned the test, it rarely actively asked for the quality index of heel detection. In this respect, the quality responsibility consciousness of enterprises needs to be strengthened.

According to the introduction, like many other countries in the world, many countries do not have the quality standards of heel products released publicly, but they often have strict internal control standards when they leave factories. "We must attach importance to quality management and provide detailed and comprehensive after-sales service. Once the quality problems arise, we can solve the problems in time." Qi Xiaoxia believes that in the current lack of standards for shoes, enterprises need to do a good job in after-sales service.