What's New > ESTA Standards Watch | November 16, 2022
November 16, 2022
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- Eight standards in public review—a different eight.
- ANSI approves three more ESTA standards and they are published.
- Two new ESTA Projects.
- USITT seeks comments on inclusive, non-offensive terms.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: paper packaging and hydrofluorocarbons in the USA; and low voltage equipment in Uruguay.
- ANSI public reviews: telecommunications infrastructure; personal fall protection; balanced twisted-pair cabling; NFPA 1 Fire Code; and NFPA electrical equipment maintenance.
- BSI public review: EN building ventilation.
- New ANS projects: landscape lighting; lithium cells and batteries; balanced twisted-pair telecommunications; declaring product noise; drawing paper sizes, lettering, and line conventions; adult changing tables; LED drivers; stationary energy storage systems; escalator and moving walk brakes; display image size, professional floor cleaning; and information security management systems.
- Final ANS approvals: four ESTA standards; three ASHRAE/ICC/IES/USGBC Standard 189.1 addenda; one ASHRAE/IES Standard 100 addendum; mobile wiring designations; UV hazards and measurements; NFPA risk assessment, personnel qualifications, and motor sports safety; and two UL photovoltaic systems standards.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: wireless power transfer; secondary cells and batteries; home system user interfaces; IoT; functional safety and complex semiconductors; smart urban planning; exoskeleton and service robots; programming language vulnerabilities; and part 305 of DALI.
- Recently published IEC & ISO docs: more secondary cells and batteries; industrial, cultural, and historical site tourism; crisis management; generator set noise; information and cybersecurity; software assurance; software architecture; and smart community infrastructure.
- TSP meeting schedule.
- 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.