Larry, I would hesitate to have operators wear copper jewelry while building hardware, for safety concerns. I heard of an operator who was seriously injured because some jewelry came in contact with a "discharged" piece of electronics. In the places I worked at previously, no jewelry could be worn in the shop. In addition, the magnetic field from the magnetized hardware could damage hardware. In a prior life, I've seen magnets wipe out memory devices. Hope this helps. Good Luck. Lee Whiteman -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Larry Koens Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 3:03 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] bracelets What are you guys feelings on allowing production people wear the copper or magnetized bracelets? I'm talking about the ones the are suppose to help arthritis. Is there any type of ESD issues with these? Any other concerns with them? thanks, Larry --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 -----------------------------------------------------