Shocking time !!!

[MangoPete]

My son has a job in a clothes store ,
When he has to take metal clothes bars from the store via the lift he has to pass through a door with a coded key entry and also type in the required floor in the lift. Each tme he gets a very bad static shock.
How can he avert this static shock?
I know I get shocks from metal in MnS, so I don't g in there anymore.
What should he do?

[johnizere]

just a thought...is he holding the metal clothes rails when he presses the lift button?...if so, he could be "earthing" himself through the rail. Ask him to let go of the rail next time and see what happens.

[oldwoman]

Rubber soled shoes and wear nothing that contains nylon. If it still persits I think he will have to have a word with management.

[flipflop104]

I was going to say the same - when we were in Vegas once, it was very dry heat (desert) and very hot and we used to get huge static build ups from walking aorund the casinos (cheap carpets obviously!!!) so it got to the point where we would walk around and just tap ANYTHING metal as we saw it to discharge ourselves (I'm tlaking every minute or so) - this prevented the static building up too much and so prevented big electric shocks