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Standard
ESD TR53-01-22
The technical report for compliance verification testing of ESD control items in service. The document your periodic floor recheck follows.
What it means for your floor
01
Qualification is day one, verification is forever
A floor is qualified once, when it goes in. TR53 is about everything after that: the recurring checks that prove the floor is still doing its job while people walk on it, clean it and wheel carts across it.
02
It is a technical report, not a requirement
TR53 gives the methods. Your own program document, written to S20.20, sets how often you run them. Auditors generally want to see both: the schedule and the results.
03
This is where floors quietly fail
A floor that passed on day one and has never been rechecked is an assumption, not a control. Resistance drifts with wear and with what gets applied to the surface.
