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

News items in this issue include:

• Seven ESTA standards in public review.
• Nine new ESTA TSP projects. Get involved!
• A fatter October Plugfest.
• WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: vehicle emissions in Delaware; methylene chloride ban in the USA; security of connectable products in the UK; broadband equipment operating in 3900-3980 MHz band in Canada.
• ANSI public reviews: industrial mobile robots, platform and stairway lifts; electrical construction drawings; lamp bases; indoor air quality; Green Globes assessment; UV whole-room disinfection; installing commercial lighting; electronics reuse and recycling; pin and sleeve connectors; button-cell battery safety; Building Information Modeling; identifying pipe systems; safety of machinery; balanced twisted-pair for industrial premises; and safety of UV germicidal equipment.
• CSA public review: access scaffold.
• DIN public reviews: theatre terminology; LED walls and screens; electric chain hoists.
• New ANS projects: gross area; tiny houses; networked lighting systems; selecting technical experts; NFPA standards for responding to hazardous materials and weapons of mass destruction; and NFPA standard for emergency services communications.
• Final actions on ANSs: unlicensed wireless devices, IT asset management; software systems professionals certification; software tools and management; LED driver measurement and performance; portable power packs; cybersecurity of connectable products; solid state transfer switches; six addenda to ASHRAE/ICC/IES/USGBC Standard 189.1; AWS strengthening and repairing existing structures; battery management; IES lighting science and testing methods; and UL standards for virtual reality equipment safety, surface burning tests, and UPSs.
• Draft IEC & ISO docs: safety colors and signs; artificial intelligence; machine functional safety; brain-computer interfaces; and sustainable customer premises cabling.
• Recently published ISO & IEC docs: sustainability in civil engineering works; three FDI standards; intelligent parking; safety of machinery; and protective security for organizations.
• TSP meeting schedule.
• Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program, with a new donor, Inventions Guite.

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