What's New > ESTA Standards Watch | August 23, 2022
August 24, 2022
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- CDC streamlines COVID-19 guidance.
- FYI: A new ANSI FAQ page.
- A couple of ESTA standards reaffirmed: E1.32 & E1.58.
- WTO Technical Barrier to Trade notifications: Organic livestock and poultry in the USA; electronic dog and cat collars in England (but not Wales, NI, or Scotland); Ugandan risk assessment standard published; updated Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices in the USA; stationary reciprocating internal combustion engine pollutants in the USA; identifying drones in the USA; and white-space devices in the USA.
- ANSI public reviews: NITMAM time for three NFPA standards; personal fall protection; DC speed drives; three wind energy standards; sound system measurements for audience areas; building energy modeling; and cybersecurity of network-connected products.
- BSI public review announcement: event structures
- DIN public review announcement: safety requirements for stands and truss lifts of stands.
- New ANS projects: One about managing infectious diseases.
- Final actions on American National Standards: seismic requirements for steel buildings; steel building structure specification; risk management vocabulary; ESTA's E1.32 & E1.58; fire tests for structural steel protection; and safety of lasers.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: trampoline parks; respiratory devices; adventure tourism; tourism to industrial sites, RFID; business process outsourcing; certification of software and systems engineering; team competence; energy performance of lifts, escalators, etc.; LED light source characteristics; wind measurement; the carbon footprint of lithium-ion batteries; eleven draft SQL standards for $2,597 the set; lighting systems general requirements; and wind reliability.
- Recently published IEC & ISO docs: BIM; drones; cybersecurity for lifts, escalators, and moving walks; and six more standards for cybersecurity and privacy protection.
- TSP meeting schedule.
- 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 at http://estalink.us/nn7a1.