Safety shouldn't cost you comfort
Most safety footwear asks workers to choose. Protection, or a shoe you can stand in for ten hours. We never accepted that trade.
YAHYA exists because the people doing the hardest work deserve equipment that protects them without punishing them for wearing it. Every pair is judged on one question: would someone want to put these on tomorrow morning?
Three commitments we don't negotiate
Protection that isn't negotiable
A toe cap either holds or it doesn't. We don't ship a pair that we wouldn't stand behind in front of a safety officer, and we don't quietly downgrade materials to hit a price.
Comfort as a safety feature
A shoe that hurts gets loosened, kicked off, worn wrong. Comfort isn't a luxury on a work site, it's what keeps the protection actually being worn at 4pm.
Honest about what it does
Every rating we print is a rating the shoe holds. We would rather lose an order than overstate what a pair can take.
Different floors, same standard
Every shift should end the way it started.
That is the whole point of what we make. Not a slogan, a standard we hold every pair to before it leaves us.
Four decades of working leather
YAHYA is made by Model Exims, a leather house founded in Unnao in 1982. We tan our own leather and inject our own soles, which means we answer for every pair rather than passing the blame down a supply chain.
That is not the reason to buy YAHYA. It is the reason we can promise what we promise.
Find the pair that fits your floor
Tell us the hazards and the headcount. We will point you to the right model.