What is the principle and function of anti-static shoes？

Many workers wear anti-static shoes, but they do not necessarily understand the principle and function of anti-static shoes. Recently, some customers have been asking, and today we will talk with you about the principle and function of anti-static shoes.

According to the description of the new national standard GB21148-2020 for anti-static shoes, the principle of anti-static shoes is a safety shoe that dissipates the static charge on the body to minimize the accumulation of static electricity. The place where anti-static shoes been needed also require the anti-static ground.

Many articles about anti-static shoes are not particularly accurate, or even wrong. And then spread the rumors based on falsehoods, which caused many people to find that many articles are contradictory when they read it, and the more they read it, the more confused they became. Today we will systematically talk about anti-static shoes.

An anti-static shoe is used in clean rooms, clean workshops, pharmaceutical factories or laboratories, so it is also called clean shoes, crystal clean shoes, and the color of anti-static shoes is generally white or blue. The principle is to introduce the body's static charge into the earth through anti-static shoes, so that the staff will not be contaminated with dust when walking in the clean room, and also avoid dust or electric charge on electronic equipment or instruments when assembling precision instruments.

Another type of anti-static shoes is more widely used, mainly used in gas stations, aerospace systems and military units. The main function is to avoid flammable and explosive substances or vapors, because the sparks caused by static charge cause the danger of ignition and detonation. Such anti-static shoes generally use leather anti-static shoes.