What's New > ESTA Standards Watch - February 12, 2021
February 12, 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.
- Two more ESTA standards approved and published.
- OTP Rocks promotes ANSI E1.59.
- Registration opens for the Virtual New World Rigging Symposium.
- Event Safety Alliance offers OSHA 30 training.
- WTO Technical Barrier to Trade notifications: prepackaged products in Paraguay; cells and batteries, loudspeakers and headphones in Pakistan; and things that might be unsafe in Viet Nam.
- ANSI public reviews: powered platforms and traveling ladders; human readiness level scale; backpack radiation detectors; single-pole locking connectors; specifications for agencies that do inspections; and heat-links for fire protection.
- New ANS projects: a standard for police response; a standard for free, fair, and trustworthy elections; oxygen reduction fire control systems; hot work robots; electric chain hoist performance; lever hoist performance; pandemic response self-symptom checker, drive-through testing, and walk-up testing; and hand hygiene--Wash your hands!
- Final actions on American National Standards: measuring loss of productivity; lithium cells and batteries; theatrical hoisting systems, Object Transform Protocol, and portable platforms; and protecting the public at construction sites.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: IoT; cybersecurity; digital audio interfaces; home electronic systems; Smart City information modeling; noisy electrical machines; multimedia battery life, reused components; and industrial automation.
- Recently published IEC & ISO docs: more digital audio interfaces; HD recording link guidelines; AV power consumption; e-publishing; laser display devices; IT cabinet aisles; lighting vocabulary; and the implications of artificial intelligence machine learning.
- TSP April meeting schedule.
- TSP donors who have made long-term, multi-year pledges.
- Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program, with some additions.
The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available here.