What is in a wrist strap and footwear station?
A battery powered test station is installed on a plate that goes on a wall somewhere convenient on a floor allowing for staff themselves to check their wrist straps and ESD footwear. There is a tester that can do tests in a couple of ranges, there is a banana jack to insert the grounding cord of the wrist strap once the wearer touches a small metal plate on the instrument current passes through the cord, wrist strap and hand loop to the plate, and alarm (LED and beep) is raised should the resistance be found to be over/under a threshold. The ESD footwear, say heel and toe straps are measured similarly through a metal plate supplied which is located over the floor. This test station is quite convenient as to comply with current standards advising of daily testing.
