Current flooring test procedures and the information they provide can be misleading. Here's one proposed solution to the floor-testing problem. Testing various characteristics provides important information for proper selection of floor materials. Here's part two of the story of how this key military specification was itself shaped and grew. Despite good intentions and formalized static-control policies, audits can still uncover numerous offenses against static safety.
Static problems can be subtle, and often demand more than just a one-step solution.
Properly selected shipping and handling containers can limit ESD damage, both to electronic devices and to your budget. This requirement that a manufacturer's product meet a user's specification is typical in the electronics industry. If fact, as manufacturer's of ESD packaging, we often require certification from our own vendors. Depending on the material, surface resistivity may be a misleading indicator of static-control capabilities. Even without costly failure analysis, the effects of static discharge can be made visible using throughput analysis.