Does ESD20:20 allow tailoring to the extent that you can completely remove requirements related to the distance requirements for charged insulators?
Kevin,
ANSI/ESD S20.20 Annex C says, “tailoring allows users of ANSI/ESD S20.20 to deviate from or exclude a requirement of the standard if the user can provide justification and technical rationale for the deviation or exclusion.”
I’m not sure what justification or technical rationale you could give to tailor out the insulator distance requirements. If you want to specify what kind of justification or technical rationale you are thinking of using, perhaps someone can better evaluate
On looking at the examples of tailoring - excluding distance requirements does not seem to fit here.
The rational appears to be that if you don’t have ionizers, and you don’t want to separate a charged insulator from a SSD, then you rely on the operator handling to ensure that no discharge event occurs. Basically removal both risk mitigations and relying operator handling.