Best safety shoes for electrician ???

[Zimmer]

Are there safety shoes (steel toecap) specially for electricians ?
i.e in the U.S there is an EH (electrical hazard) boot.
I ask because a while back I was wearing "standard" safety boots, in a perfectly dry panel room when my finger accidentally touched a live terminal, and I was surprised to get a quite painful shock.
Any recommendations:

Shoes preferable to boots.
Steel toecap essential

 

[Inteificio]

No they won't see my first post.

I doubt the conductive path was through your shoes, I doubt it very much.

Were your feet wet, your shoes soaked and standing on an earthed panel?

The body has enough capacitance to take a good jolt without the current going anywhere but in and out of you.


What makes you think the shoes were the cause?

 

[Zimmer]

I doubt the conductive path was through your shoes, I doubt it very much.

Were your feet wet, your shoes soaked and standing on an earthed panel?

The body has enough capacitance to take a good jolt without the current going anywhere but in and out of you.


What makes you think the shoes were the cause?

You might doubt it, but I was there.
The boots were dry, and the concrete floor was dry and the only conductive path was through my boots.(steel toecap and midsole as provided at work)
I had my other hand in my pocket when my finger touched a 230V to earth busbar and was very surprised myself.
It was much more than a tingle, hence my OP. I double checked after the event, my exact position, and there was no way, I could have made contact with earth, other than through the boots.