ESD handling and safe equipment installation
Protect components from static and people from injury when racking and servicing equipment.
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- About 35 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Apply ESD precautions when handling components
- Plan a safe lift and rail installation
- Identify unsafe practices before they cause harm
Course outline
- 1.ESD and safe installationVideo · 2 min
- 2.Static and componentsLesson · 12 min
- 3.Lifting and racking safelyLesson · 12 min
- 4.ESD-safe workstation and packagingLesson · 12 min
- 5.ESD handling and safe equipment installation: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 18 questions
- 6.ESD handling and safe equipment installation: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
- 7.Memory upgrade without ESD protectionScenario
- 8.Final exam5 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- ANSI/ESD S20.20: Protection of electrical and electronic parts from electrostatic discharge
- Your equipment vendors' installation and service guides (rail kits, PSU and BMC documentation)
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