What should be used to test whether static shoes and anti-static floors meet the standards?
According to the relevant electrostatic standards, the ESD floor should be greater than 1x10^5 ohms and less than 1x10^9 ohms. The ESD Association has developed a standard, ESD DSTM54.1, which requires the combined resistance of the floor and footwear to be measured when measuring footwear resistance systems. This is actually a test method and does not specify or recommend resistance ranges. To test the actual resistance of a floor, the ANSI/ESD-S7.1 standard has a special test method that uses two 5-pound electrodes and drive voltages of 10 and 100 volts. Surface resistance testers are designed to work well with this testing method.