What's New > ESTA Standards Watch | May 9, 2023
May 10, 2023
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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.