WG 29.0 - ESD in Healthcare

Status:
Active
Working Group Chair:
Tom Ricciardelli, SelecTech, Inc.
  • WG 29’s recent work is focused on creating ESD standards/guidelines for a healthcare setting. A technical report is expected for publication in late 2022. The thought going into these ESD standards/guidelines for healthcare can be found in this video presentation.

  • The WG reviewed some of the comments from TAS on TR29 “Guidance for Control of Electrostatic Hazards in Healthcare Facilities”. Edits were made, and the document will be prepared for resubmittal to TAS. The WG will continue to work on the TR between meetings and hope to have another review for TAS following the June meeting series.

  • The WG reviewed TAS comments on ESD TR29.0-01 “Guidance for Control of Electrostatic Hazards in Healthcare Facilities”. The WG will continue to work on the TR between meetings and hope to have another review for TAS following the September meeting series.

  • The WG completed the adjudication of TAS comments on TR29 “Guidance for Control of Electrostatic Hazards in Healthcare Facilities”. Edits were made, and the document will be prepared to resubmittal to TAS. The WG will continue to work on the TR between meetings and hopes to have another review for TAS following the March meeting series.

  • The WG focused on adjudicating the high-level comments from TAS on ESD TR29.0-01 “Guidance for Control of Electrostatic Hazards in Healthcare Facilities”.

  • The working group continued the development of the new technical report ESD TR29.0-01.

  • The working group reviewed last remaining major additions to the new technical report on guidance for control of electrostatic hazards in healthcare facilities.

  • WG focused on the review of the draft for TR29 “Guidance for Control of Electrostatic Hazards in Healthcare Facilities”. 

    The WG hopes to complete the draft of the TR and submit it to TAS for their review and comment.

  • A presentation was given on some case studies of hospital hazards recently encountered by a WG member. The WG reviewed some of the comments from TAS on the latest draft of ESD TR29.0-01, “Guidance for Control of Electrostatic Hazards in Healthcare Facilities”. Edits were made, and the document will be prepared for resubmittal to TAS.

  • Our next WG29 Healthcare meeting will be held on 3/14 at the March Meeting Series in Denton, TX.  The full meeting series scheduled is attached for your reference. 

     

    Our agenda for the meeting will be:

     

    • Meeting Policies
    • Review Recent Work
    • Adjudicate Newest Comments from TAS on TR29

     

    At our last meeting, we completed adjudication of comments from TAS on our draft TR29 and resubmitted back to TAS.  We will have a second round of comments from TAS ready for our meeting so that we can begin the process of adjudicating those comments.  The document is shaping up very nicely and I’m looking forward to moving it to the next stage. 

     

    I’m looking forward to the meeting and seeing you all there. 

     

  • The group reviewed and discussed an initial draft of the new ESD TR29.

  • Summary of meeting activities:

    The committee reviewed current draft sections of ESD TR29.0-01. The group also identified the next sections the group will continue working on.

  • Summary of meeting activities:

    The group finalized an outline for a new technical report. A writing team has been formed to create the document content and a task group was created to develop an industry survey.

  • Summary of meeting activities:

    This was the second meeting for the ad hoc group. The group reviewed and summarized SEMI E-78, and identified additional sectors such as: semi back end/assembly & test, fiber optics, other optics, board manufacturing, MEMs devices, and incoming materials. A decision was made to divide into key industry sectors with sub groups to have one or more calls prior to the April meeting and present at the April meeting findings such as key problems, perform a literature survey, and a potential direction.  Sectors identified are: basic electrostatics & particle physics, data storage (possibly), painting and surface treatments, general manufacturing, semiconductor, fiber optics, medical, aerospace, and military.

  • Summary of meeting activities:

    The group discussed reasons for considering ESD control in healthcare facilities and existing documents related to ESD control in healthcare facilities.