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A blue bolt of lightning strikes the ground beneath a dark sky in an act of electrostatic discharge.
ANSI | Electrical Safety

Preventing Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)

ByBrad Kelechava February 11, 2022May 28, 2025

What is Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)? When we walk across a carpeted floor and touch a doorknob, we feel a startling shock. This is one of…

A blue ANSI/ESD S1.1-2021 wrist strap ready to ground a worker to prevent static and electrostatic discharge.
ANSI | Electrical Safety

ANSI/ESD S1.1-2021: Standard for Wrist Straps

ByBrad Kelechava February 10, 2022May 28, 2025

The power of lightning is in your hands. Not the hands of Thor or Zeus or whatever lightning-casting being—but yours! The average human body, at…

Grounding electrostatic discharge on a motherboard that is specified in ANSI/ESD S6.1-2019
ANSI | Electrical Safety

ANSI/ESD S6.1-2019: Electrostatic Discharge Grounding

ByBrad Kelechava December 10, 2019June 5, 2025

When you shuffle across a carpeted floor and tap a doorknob, you feel a startling shock. This is the simplest form of electrostatic discharge (ESD),…

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