Shraks vs Skechers Work: Weight, rating, grip and price, side by side.
If you are comparing Shraks to Skechers Work, you are choosing between two takes on the same idea: a safety shoe that wears like a trainer. Both are sold on comfort rather than toughness, which makes the spec sheet the only honest way to separate them.
Below is a straight comparison on the nine points that decide whether a shoe survives your shift.
Check the current specification of any pair you are considering. Ranges within a brand vary widely, and a line can change between seasons.
Note: this comparison uses publicly listed specifications. Brand names belong to their owners and neither brand has endorsed this page.
1. Safety rating
Shraks: EN ISO 20345:2022 S1PSSkechers: S1 P SRA ESD (EN ISO 20345-2011)
Most people buy on the look of the shoe and take the word safety on the listing to mean something. It doesn't; the letters after it do. Skechers and Shraks both carry the S1P family of markings, so on certification there is genuinely nothing between us, and you should ignore anyone who tells you otherwise. What the class actually promises is that a toe cap, an antistatic sole and a puncture-resistant midsole were tested in a lab instead of written by a marketing team. Read the letters before you read anything else on a page.👉 See the Moon
2. The toe cap
Shraks: Steel toe cap, tested to 200 joulesSkechers: Composite
The usual advice is that steel is the serious option and composite is the soft one, which is simply wrong. Both Skechers' composite cap and the steel cap in a Shraks pass the same 200 joule impact test, and a cap that passes is a cap that passes. The real difference is volume: steel is thinner at equal protection, so it takes less room off your toes, while composite is lighter and won't set off a metal detector. Pick on where you work and what you walk through, not on which material sounds tougher.👉 See the Moon
3. Puncture resistance
Shraks: Puncture-resistant KevlarSkechers: Nonmetallic puncture resistant insole design
Almost everyone reads a thick, chunky sole as a sole that stops a nail. Sole thickness has nothing to do with it: the only thing that stops a nail is a certified anti-penetration layer, which is what the P in the rating is for and why a trainer with no P will let a roofing nail through a centimetre of rubber. Skechers and Shraks both have that layer, ours in Kevlar. The insight worth keeping is that this is a separate test from the toe cap, so a shoe can protect your toes completely and your arch not at all.👉 See the Moon
4. Upper
Shraks: Breathable meshSkechers: Mesh and synthetic
Both of these shoes use a textile upper, so the honest version of this row is that they are chasing the same thing: Skechers and Shraks have each decided that a shoe you wear for ten hours should breathe rather than armour your foot. The trade is the same on both sides too, because mesh that lets air out lets water in. What it buys you is a softer start, which in this category is the difference between a good first week and a fortnight of blisters.5. Insole
Shraks: Cushioned and removableSkechers does not state this on the product page.
Most people put up with the insole a shoe came with, and the ones who can't buy an insert and hope it fits. Skechers' page never says whether its insole comes out, which is the answer you least want when you already wear orthotics. The Shraks footbed is cushioned and removable, so yours goes in on day one. A glued-in insole doesn't just feel worse, it makes the shoe unusable for anyone carrying a prescription insert, and that is a lot of this trade.
6. Sizing
Shraks: EU 35 to 47Skechers: UK 6-12
The standard approach to a narrow size range is to take the nearest size up and wear a thicker sock, which moves the blister rather than preventing it. Skechers lists UK 6-12, while Shraks runs one range across the whole line. A size range that starts where men's sizes start tells you which foot the last was cut for, and everyone outside that range is buying a scaled-down version of a shoe designed for someone else.7. Price
Shraks: £79.99Skechers: £100.00 incl. VAT
The instinct in this category is that paying more buys more protection, and the certificate says otherwise. Skechers is the dearer shoe here, and both are certified to the same family of ratings, so the extra is not going into the toe cap or the midsole. It goes into trade distribution, a rep, a catalogue and a brand that has been on sites for decades, which is a real thing to buy and simply isn't protection. Once two shoes hold the same class, price stops being a safety question and starts being a procurement one.8. Returns window
Shraks: 30-day returnsSkechers: 90 days
Skechers gives a longer window than we do, which is a straightforward win for them and worth taking if you are torn. Shraks gives 30 days, which is about three weeks of shifts and enough to know. The reason to care either way is that fit is the only specification that never appears on a product page, so the return window is the only part of the offer that lets you test the part nobody can describe.9. Weight
Shraks states about 420 grams a shoe. Skechers publishes no figure you can put beside it, so we do not compare it.Lightweight is the most used word in this category and the least often followed by a number. Skechers does not publish a weight for this shoe, which means the claim can't be checked, and it is not unusual: of the sixteen competitor products we priced for these pages, twelve publish no weight at all, and the four that do never say whether the figure is for one shoe or the pair. Shraks states about 420 grams a shoe. The insight is that weight is the spec you feel every single day and the one the industry is quietest about, which is unlikely to be a coincidence.
