I have worked in both types of industrial shops. Those that provide tools and those that require you to buy them. However every place i have worked required the employee to purchase steel toe saftey boots but the companys paid anywhere from 50 to 100 dollars per year towards them. And all the companies that i worked for gave out saftey glasses and hearing protection. They also supplied heavy tools like hammer drills, saws, large tools like pipe wrenchs and insulated electrical gloves etc. You were only require to have general tools like pliers, sockets, meter, screw drivers. The last company i worked for went 50/50 split on all tools i left there with 17,000 dollars worth of MAC tools not bad only paid 8,500. My present job requires no tools all tools are supplied by the company and stay when you quite to be passed to the next guy.
