{"id":83,"date":"2008-12-05T14:23:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T19:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esdpros.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2008-12-05T14:23:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T19:23:45","slug":"the-difference-between-an-esd-control-program-and-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/the-difference-between-an-esd-control-program-and-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between an ESD Control Program and Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> <span class=\"question\">I&#8217;m having a hard time understanding the difference between an ESD Control &#8220;Program&#8221; and an ESD Control Program &#8220;Plan&#8221;&#8230; Can someone explain what is required? Do I need two documents, one &#8220;Program&#8221; and one &#8220;Plan&#8221;, do I need to develop a single ESD document? I&#8217;m not sure what the difference between a program and a plan is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"question\"><strong>A:<\/strong> It is my understanding that the program is ANSI\/ESD S20.20-2007&#8217;s way of providing requirements to establish, implement, and maintain an ESD program. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mainTXT\">\n<p>It is my understanding that the &#8220;Plan&#8221; is the organization&#8217;s scope within that &#8220;Program&#8221; that conforms to their own internal requirements while evolving with changes to technical elements as time goes by.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I&#8217;m having a hard time understanding the difference between an ESD Control &#8220;Program&#8221; and an ESD Control Program &#8220;Plan&#8221;&#8230; Can someone explain what is required? Do I need two documents, one &#8220;Program&#8221; and one &#8220;Plan&#8221;, do I need to develop a single ESD document? I&#8217;m not sure what the difference between a program and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[82,84],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-esd-plan","tag-esd-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}