{"id":181,"date":"2009-04-09T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esdpros.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2018-02-01T09:40:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T14:40:05","slug":"where-to-place-the-strap-on-a-heelsole-grounder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/where-to-place-the-strap-on-a-heelsole-grounder\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to place the strap on a heel or sole grounder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> Do the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/grounding_esd_heel_foot_grounders.php\">heel strap<\/a> cords need to be placed inside the sock i.e. between skin and sock or can the cord be outside the sock i.e. between sock and shoe? Is this specified in any ESD documentation? If so, which standard?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I like this question because I used to always put the strap between my foot (skin) and the sock, aka stuff it into my sock and under my heel.\u00a0 I later came to find that this wasn\u2019t necessary.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s mentioned in any ESDA standards, perhaps in ESD SP9.2-2003 Footwear-Foot Grounders Resistive.\u00a0 But Foot Grounders are checked on a combo tester hopefully before you enter the EPA and if you pass and get a green light, you\u2019re good to go.\u00a0 I\u2019m seeing instructions to say the strap is to go \u201cinside the shoe or sock\u201d, so\u2026<\/p>\n<p>MIL-HDBK-263B Section 40.1.1 Personnel ground strap\u00a0 on page 100 says, \u201cPersonnel handling ESDS items should wear a skin-contact wrist, leg or ankle ground strap.\u201d\u00a0 So this would imply skin contact, but I found it\u2019s not necessary.\u00a0 If personnel wears cotton socks, the sweat and salt in our body make ESD shoes work, so thusly, the strap can go outside the sock and on the shoe\u2019s conductive insole.\u00a0 Be sure to lay the strap across the heel and not just across the arch if you do it this way.<\/p>\n<p>So just put the strap between your sock and shoe insole and use your combo tester or test yourself from palm to earth ground and see that you\u2019re reading less than 3.5E7 \u2126 per ANSI\/ESD STM97.1-2006 Floor Materials and Footwear.\u00a0 If you feel more comfortable putting it between the sock and skin, that\u2019s fine too.<\/p>\n<p>I find it to be more comfortable, convenient, and hygenetically sound to place it between the sock and insole as well.\u00a0 If there&#8217;s any mention of this to this detail elsewhere, it&#8217;s unbeknownst to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Do the heel strap cords need to be placed inside the sock i.e. between skin and sock or can the cord be outside the sock i.e. between sock and shoe? Is this specified in any ESD documentation? If so, which standard? A: I like this question because I used to always put the strap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[80,87,123,138],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esd-protection","category-footwear","tag-esd-heel-grounder","tag-esd-sole-grounder","tag-personnel-grounding","tag-strap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}