Personnel grounding is a corner stone of safeguarding static sensitive electronic devices in production areas.

Personnel grounding is important because people are one of the greatest sources of static electricity. As we move about, this contact and separation with objects generates static charge on us and the objects. This is called Tribocharging. A good example of tribocharging involves walking across carpet and getting shocked when touching a door knob. So grounding people is essential to combat static damage.