What's New > ESTA Standards Watch - September 29, 2020
September 29, 2020
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- Two draft TSP standards in public review.
- The Events Industry Forum updates the updated COVID-19 guidance for England.
- IAFE call to action on HR 7883.
- FCC pushes back push-notification deadline.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: electrical products in Argentina; external power supplies in Chile; electrical & electronic equipment in the Ukraine; two Chinese standards about electrical equipment and fire safety systems; Korean regulations about packaging; spectrum allocation in Switzerland.
- ANSI public reviews: body harnesses; IPv6 host and router profiles; solar, hydronic & geothermal code; pools & spas; below-the-hook lifting devices; Green Globes assessment; industrial robots; photovoltaic hazard control; safe confined space entry; and a guide for assessing fire risks assessment.
- CSA public reviews: emergency stop devices; service entrance ground-fault detection.
- A dozen new ANS projects.
- Final actions on American National Standards: six more addenda to ANSI/ASHRAE/ICC/USGBC/IES Standard 189.1-2017; revisions to NFPA 1, 4, 30, and 101; UL standards for ice cream makers and LED equipment.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: DALI; PCM audio; residual current monitors, semiconductor circuit-breakers; industrial communication networks, laser safety; electrotechnical vocabulary; and more.
- Recently published IEC & ISO docs: smart communities; calculating where space vehicles will crash; digital rights management; control room design; human-system ergonomics, SQL; wire rope eye-splices; cloud computing; and human language selection.
- TSP meeting schedule, now with more meetings!
- Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program.
The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available here.