What's New > ESTA Standards Watch | June 15, 2023
June 16, 2023
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- Eight ESTA standards in public review.
- FCC requires video conferencing accessibility and proposes ASL support. Okay?
- A report from Mike Wood on EU & UK Ecodesign, RoHs, and US laser regs.
- A fatter Plugfest.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: Ecodesign for lamps in Jordan; RF exposure in Canada.
- ANSI public reviews: voltage surges; elevators, escalators, and moving walks; bullet-resisting equipment; and manual chain hoists.
- CSA public reviews: welded steel and aluminum construction; DEI in apprenticeship programs; and workplace electrical safety.
- DIN public reviews: theatre terminology; LED walls and screens; electric chain hoists.
- New ANS projects: withdrawal of structural concrete building code; withdrawal of assessing and repairing concrete structures; our personal fall arrest standards; shipboard cabling; control cabling shielding; stationary lithium-based batteries; managing information security and cybersecurity risks; existing building safety inspections; and MEWP safety and training.
- Final actions on ANSs: public safety career progression; 12 addenda to ASHRAE/ICC/IES/USGBC Standard 189.1-2020; testing audio amplifiers; assessing carpets; peer review terminology; and UL standard for plugs.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: programmable controller programming language; IoT cultural heritage; wireless coexistence; ethical AI in assisted living; coding audio-visual objects; gigabit video interface; and maintaining low-voltage switchgear.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: pandemic response and temporary medical facilities; HR recruiting; 11 parts to the ISO/IEC SQL standard (totaling $2,867 and these are not all the parts); and AI security and privacy.
- TSP meeting schedule, now with eight CPWG meetings.
- 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.