What's New > New Standards Watch | 07 April 2026
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
- Twenty-two ESTA standards docs in public review.
- General service lamps Canadian compliance webinar.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: looser rules for organic farms, perchloroethylene, and carbon tetrachloride in the USA.
- ANSI public reviews: school acoustics, Green Buildings; environmental management; fall protection and fall arrest systems; building measurement; high-vis apparel; sprinkler systems; private fires service mains; NFPA opening protectives and smoke doors; emergency and standby power; quality management; privacy pods; intelligent device management; germicidal UV; UL panelboards; electric scooters and motorcycles; and roller load chains in hoists.
- New ANS projects: private security officer training; pickleball paddles; frontier AI risks; and panelized off-site construction.
- Final actions on ANSs: room noise; risk management; welding aluminum; robotic welding safety; building accessibility; tuneable white LED; and NFPA electrical inspection guide and electrical inspectors.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: cells and batteries; IoT; VR/AR/MR terminology; and BIM.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: ageing societies; AV safety; sustainable cities; and reciprocating internal combustion engine-driven generator safety.
- 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.


