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Question My company purchased 10 of your ESD smocks.

Info on the site shows that the smocks have hip to cuff grounding.
 
I am trying to figure out what options I have for grounding a technician.

The technician wears one of these smocks and also has an ESD wrist band he can connect to the common point mat ground.

If he connects the smock to ground and not the wrist band. Would the smock cuffs against his wrist act to ground the human body thru the smock ?

If he connects the wrist strap to common point ground, and not connect the smock to ground the body would be grounded but would the smock also be grounded since the cuffs are against the wrist ?

I am not sure about my understanding of the smock cuffs.
  
Thanks    
Answer

You can ground both the operator and the Statshield Smock using the coil cord on the wrist strap, or by using the coil cord attaching to the ground point near the hip of the smock and connecting to the common point ground. That is if there is snug contact from conductive cuff to operator’s skin.

 

Statshield ESD Smocks with Conductive Cuffs are a Static Control Groundable Garment system. It provide this key feature and benefit:
Conductive Knitted Cuff With Hip-To-Cuff Grounding
Allows operator to connect coil cord to snap to the hip of the smock for “hands-free” grounding, keeping the coil cord out of the workstation.

 

You can save the cost of using a wristband.

 

This is a recognized personnel grounding method. Per ANSI/ESD S20.20-2007 Personnel Grounding Requirement Table 2 Note 2: “For situations where an ESD garment is used as part of the wrist strap grounding path, the total system resistance including the person, garment and grounding cord shall be less than 3.5 x 10^7 ohms.”

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