G'day Everyone. The question I have is about ESD standards pertaining to footwear. Presently our facility uses ESD foot and wrist straps for ESD grounding. There is an effort under way to test some of the available ESD shoes that are readily available from most shoe companies. Shoes that we have bought and tested all fail our in-house, calibrated, testers for high resistance. The shoes themselves are rated to spec of between 1megohm and 100megohms, and the testers are calibrated to a maximum of 120megohms. The discussion that is going on right now is the fact that there seems to be 2 standards for static dissipative footwear. ANSI standard Static Dissipative type 1 is rated between 1megohm and 100megohms. ANSI standard Static Dissipative type 2 is rated between 1megohm and 1000megohms. For use in electronics manufacturing, what is generally being used by those in the industry, type 1, or 2? I realize some may not want to share that type of information readily, but any help would be appreciated. I have already looked into the technet archives but did not find the information I was looking for. Thanks in advance. Kevin Jaworenko Manufacturing Engineering Technologist Vansco Electronics LP (204) 453 - 3339 ext. 622 (204) 453 - 3663 FAX [log in to unmask] --------------------------------------------------- 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 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------