Customer Reviews New Balance Work & Safety 589v1

It provides the necessary protection. It's better then boots, more breathable. However, I did end up returning it because it was still just too heavy for my liking. I work long hours on my feet in different kind of settings. So really it's something you have to determine weight versus protection and how much you're willing to risk.

Good enough. The tread picks up too much trash and they are heavy. Fairly comfortable and seem durable.

Wish they were made in the USA. Seems everything is made in China now.

I work with electrical equipment, encounter slippy floors and carry motors, heavy parts and other things that would otherwise crush my toes. I've had a few sets of New Balance shoes and, for the most part, they are comfortable and serve their purpose (Fresh Foam running sneakers, cross trainers, running sneakers). This is the first time I've purchased their work shoes. Externally, I am impressed. It is a pretty shoe and a worthy not-ugly heavy work shoe. It is comfortable along the edges and top of the feet and also has a good toe box. Not too tight, room to wiggle. The problem is that there was absolutely no arch support. It was really bad such that my arches ached in less than an hour of work. I had to pull the inserts out of my old work shoes and put them into these for it to be acceptably comfortable. Overall, good looking sneaker, great for work with an insert.

The shoes look great, are lightweight and well built. That being said, the toe cup is too narrow for wide feet. If you order these, and you take a wider shoe, go up in size.

I purchased 4 different shoe, 2 sizes and 2 widths, still the safety toe pushed in on my big toe. All other parts of the shoe felt good, just couldn't get comfortable.

I can't wear shoes with toe caps. Other than the toe caps, the shoes fit well, and looked good.

Since I only buy your sneekers I tried your work sneekers with the composite toe (required for work) but I was a bit surprised that they did not come with the memory foam insoles(really)and the fact that my toes feel cramped when I put them on,almost like the thickness of the shell was not compensated for. I now need to look into yet another brand to find something I can work in comfortably.