What's New > ESTA Standards Watch - August 6, 2021
August 10, 2021
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- Two ESTA standards in public review for reaffirmation.
- Event Safety Summit returns in-person and on-line.
- 2021 Behind the Scenes Holiday Cards are on sale.
- FCC publishes a 4G LTE map for the USA.
- WTO Technical Barrier to Trade notifications: Florida Building Commission product evaluators; wireless communications in Brazil; electric vehicle charging in the UK; EU hazardous substances; and 511 pages of Vietnamese environmental protection regulations.
- ANSI public reviews: storage racks, bolt-less shelving, and industrial steel work platforms.
- BSI public reviews: competence of building safety managers and fundamentals of Fieldbus.
- CSA public reviews: high-visibility clothing and hearing loss prevention.
- New ANS projects: walking surface safety; safe motor vehicle operation; personal fall arrest systems; occupational safety and health management systems; emergency and standby power systems; and stored energy for emergency and standby power.
- American National Standards approved: postmortem fingerprint recovery; welding procedure specifications; modular communications interface; energy measurement of network lighting control devices; hazmat clothing selection and care; standards for hazmat and medical protective ensembles.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: WRAN; JPEG coding; hydrogen peroxide sterilization; immersive media; stinky, leaky garbage trucks; cyber-physically controlled machines; part 826 of the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary; fiber optic cables; home and building automation; setting stuff on fire with hot wires; evaluating RF exposure of humans; hosting and organizing citywide and regional events; date and time vocabulary; facility management; cold hoses; Fieldbus; non-destructive testing; knee and hip joint replacement implants; design of structures for earthquakes; protection against intense light; and forged shackles for lifting.
- Recently published IEC & ISO docs: C behavioral language; RCD breakers; System Verilog; and space-based high-accuracy positioning systems.
- Link to the TSP meeting schedule.
- TSP donors who have made long-term, multi-year pledges.
- 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.