A method and apparatus for ensuring and tracking electrostatic discharge (ESD) safety and compliance via electronics that gather information and parameters from wearable electronics, such as a wrist strap, worn by each user at a company's electronics-manufacturing plant or similar facility that indicate whether and when a functional ESD ground is established and continually maintained between each respective user and each workstation at which each respective user locates, wherein a system monitor is configured to receive on a continual or periodic basis whether each user is complying with the ESD policy of the company. In some embodiments, the parts worked on at each workstation, billing and job numbers, and/or employee work hours are also tracked by a computer server that aggregates data from one or more system monitors and generates compliance reports for each part, job, and/or employee.
