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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.

News items in this issue include:

• A quartet of ESTA standards in public review.
• Registration open for WTO events on climate change and plastics regulation.
• IWA 42, Net Zero Guidelines, for free.
• Gamble for good at the USITT Stage Expo.
• WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: plastic recycling in California; broadband radio, frequency hopping systems and wireless LANs in Canada. 
• ANSI public reviews: two Green Building addenda; industrial turntables; electrical equipment maintenance; adjustable speed drives; building water system risk management; NFPA remote inspections, hot work, electrical inspections, types of buildings; fire walls, flame retardant coatings, and electrical inspector qualifications; and a UL standard for LED retrofit kits.
• CSA public review: multiple system grounding electrodes. 
• New ANS projects: Revising ESTA's E1.23 fog effect planning standard; telecommunications bonding and grounding; casters and wheels, and IoT device cybersecurity label design.
• Final actions on American National Standards: burning characteristics of building materials; burning mattresses; pool and spa maintenance; mast-climbing work platforms; and transport platforms.
• Draft IEC & ISO docs: DALI parts 250, 251, and 252; UPSs; maintaining and repairing concrete structures; workstation layout; describing upper limb amputation stumps; mobile elevating work platforms; bamboo container flooring; and lithium batteries.
• Recently published ISO & IEC docs: secondary cells and batteries; outdoor electrical enclosures; functional safety of machinery; updating road vehicle software; BIM; cloud computing; and two for information security incident management.
• TSP meeting schedule for NAMM in Anaheim
• 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.