ESD Flooring Capabilities

How It Works

Conductive and static-dissipative floors serve different electrical-control requirements. Conductive flooring is below 1.0 × 10⁶ ohms, while static-dissipative flooring is 1.0 × 10⁶ to 1.0 × 10⁹ ohms. The project’s ESD control plan, component sensitivity, grounding design, selected system, and governing specification determine the appropriate band; neither classification is automatically correct for every room within an industry.

When specified, Craftsman employees perform ANSI/ESD STM7.1-2020 flooring-resistance testing. Resistance-to-ground and point-to-point readings are taken with a calibrated Desco 19290 Digital Surface Resistance Meter Kit and standard five-pound electrodes. Craftsman’s written report records the readings, mapped floor locations, applicable site conditions, photographs, and pass/fail status against the project’s approved acceptance criteria. Any ANSI/ESD STM97.1-2025 system-resistance or ANSI/ESD STM97.2-2016 body-voltage testing is separately assigned by the specification and executed scope.

How It Works

Craftsman manages estimating, contracting, scheduling, resource assignment, procurement, project management, safety, billing, documentation, warranty administration, and corrective response through one companywide management structure. Crew and equipment commitments are then made project by project through the proposal, staffing plan, equipment plan, and schedule.

Project resources are assigned according to the work, not an office address. Relevant ESD-system experience, current deployment, project location, employee home location, schedule, availability, geographic sequencing, and customer continuity can all affect assignment. The staffing plan identifies the crew and field leadership committed to the site; national coverage does not promise a fixed origin or immediate availability.

Major installation equipment is assigned through the same project-specific planning process. Craftsman employees transport major equipment directly between project sites as the sequence moves. The equipment plan identifies the equipment, origin, staging, movement, and assumptions committed to the actual site rather than treating national coverage as a universal dispatch model.

How It Works

Program consistency comes from a shared operating framework, not an assumption that every site needs the same ESD floor. Craftsman can carry one direct-workforce model, installation-leadership structure, training system, documentation path, safety-accountability model, and management structure across the program while the selected system, preparation, grounding details, testing criteria, and schedule remain specific to each facility or area.

Commercial terms and pricing formats can be standardized where the agreement defines them. Site-specific cost factors, including quantities, substrate conditions, access, phasing, testing, system selection, and schedule assumptions, still have to be identified in the applicable work order. Defined change procedures keep those differences visible rather than forcing unlike sites into an unsupported universal price.

Multi-site delivery can be sequential, concurrent, or hybrid when the accepted schedule and committed resources allow. The proposal and program plan identify which sites overlap, the staffing and field leadership assigned to each site, the equipment allocation, work-window commitments, and the response if a site loses its scheduled window. Availability is verified against the actual rollout rather than presumed from the MSA.

How It Works

Isolation controls are selected for the preparation method, facility, adjacent operation, specified ESD system, and executed scope. Depending on the work, the plan may address capture at the tool, physical barriers, sealed penetrations, managed air movement, negative-pressure enclosures, vibration restrictions, housekeeping, and separate routes for crews, production, equipment, and waste. These controls reduce exposure; they are not a universal zero-dust, zero-odor, or uninterrupted-operations promise.

A shutdown window must cover the applicable preparation, installation, cure, inspection or specified testing, cleanup, and handback stages. Planned outages, holiday shutdowns, nights, and weekends can provide those windows. Materials and equipment may be staged in advance when the site and plan permit it, but the selected system, actual conditions, access approvals, and required exposure milestone determine what the window can contain. The phase plan should identify the timing of installed-floor resistance testing, including required cure and conditioning before readings are used for acceptance.

Every installation shift has an on-site skilled foreman with direct supervision and stop-work accountability. Each active project also receives an assigned non-crew Safety and Operations Manager who is physically present during one shift of each working day, including weekend working days. When included in the scope, daily or shift reports, changed-condition notices, open-item logs, and phase-handback records preserve the coordination trail.

How It Works

When included in the scope, Craftsman assembles the applicable pre-installation submittals from the parties responsible for them. The package may include the approved flooring scope, selected-system product data, manufacturer requirements, installation and grounding details, project procedures, safety information, quality plan, and phasing schedule. Craftsman identifies the source where a manufacturer, customer, general contractor, design professional, or other authorized party issues the document.

Every direct Craftsman test ends in a written digital report rather than a bare reading. When specified, the report maps readings to floor locations and records the date and time, applicable temperature, humidity, and test conditions, slab temperature, photographs, acceptance criteria, and pass/fail status. The scoped report identifies its issuer, operator, instrument, and report or revision reference. For assigned static-control floor testing, Craftsman issues an STM7.1 flooring-resistance report; it does not issue an ESD-floor certification.

Craftsman normally delivers closeout as a digital folder of individually named PDF files by email. Each filename identifies the project, applicable floor system or area, document type, and date or revision. Manufacturer warranty documents are included where the selected system provides them, alongside Craftsman’s one-year workmanship warranty in the executed contract and closeout documents. Other delivery systems, retention requirements, or acceptance formats apply only when the project documents require them. A scoped package index can list document IDs, floor areas, issuers, dates or revisions, and outstanding or accepted status; any required sample report format is agreed before award.

Closeout preserves the result-to-acceptance trail. Where required, the same area or location ID connects the original result, corrective work, dated retest, final disposition, and acknowledgment by the designated acceptance authority. Accepted results can provide a baseline for owner troubleshooting and subsequent compliance verification under the facility’s ESD control plan, with ESD TR53-01-22 used where applicable. Initial acceptance does not replace the owner’s ongoing verification program.