Search CITT/ICTS

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

News items in this issue include:

• Proposed IBC changes affecting ANSI E1.21 open for comment.
• WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: organic food in the Ukraine; explosives in Viet Nam.
• ANSI public reviews: personal fall protection and virtual reality equipment safety.
• CSA public review announcement: IEC wire guages.
• New ANS projects: oodles of OSI; safeguarding data in AI; inclusive language;  wireless networked lighting controllers; and adjustable speed drives.
• Final actions on American National Standards: two addenda to ASHRAE/ICC/IES/USGBC Standard 189.1 and two addenda to ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1-2019; additive manufacturing; exterior lighting; lots of Linux; and LED sign retrofit kits.
• Draft IEC & ISO docs: plain language; cybersecurity; AI; photobiological safety of lamps part 7; sustainable mobility; noise cancelling headphones; and programming languages for programmable controllers.
• Recently published IEC & ISO docs: UPS safety and amendment to UPS safety; power converter equipment;  Single-drop digital communication interface; and wireless industrial network coexistence.
• TSP meeting schedule.
• Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's TSP.

The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available at http://estalink.us/nn7a1.