A person should wear all the necessary ESD protective materials such as: 

• ESD smock
• ESD wrist strap
• ESD shoes      before he enters an ESD Protected area (EPA).  

Most of the time a person would wear gloves or finger cots while at work to prevent oil stain or finger mark. ESD gloves or ESD finger cots should be used while handling the ESDS items. 

1. ESD smock : An ESD smock is a garment, which is worn to protect ESDS items from the electric field that is generated from the wearer’s internal street clothing. They are various type of ESD smock in the market and they also come in many colours: sky blue, pink, yellow, dark blue and white to name a few. 
2. ESD wrist strap : An ESD wrist strap can be a single conductor wrist strap or a dual conductor wrist strap system. Users have to choose a suitable wrist strap to match their wrist strap continuous monitoring system which either can be a capacitance, resistance or voltage type. 
3. ESD shoes : An ESD shoes can either be a normal static control shoes or an ESD safety shoes. Both normal Static control shoes and ESD safety shoes serve to ground any static charges that are built up within a wearer through the contact between the ESD shoes and the ESD flooring.
4. ESD glove : An ESD glove is either made from clear dissipative materials or polyesters sewn with conductive fibres.
5. ESD finger cot : An ESD finger cot is either made from pink dissipative materials or black conductive materials. Black conductive finger cots are more expensive than dissipative finger cots. 

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