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

News items in this issue include:

• ANSI public reviews:  family engagement following a mass fatality incident; functional safety: process safety controls, alarms, and interlocks as protection layers;  minimum training standards for public safety telecommunicators;  safety requirements for personnel hoists; ASTM's test method for surface burning characteristics; NFPA's standard methods of fire tests for flame propagation; standard for certification of electrical testing technicians; NFPA standards for fire safety and emergency symbols, safe confined space entry and work, emergency medical services and community health care, guide for the evaluation of fire risk assessments, community risk assessment and risk reduction, and facility emergency action plans; balanced single twisted-pair cabling for industrial premises; and telecommunication infrastructure standard for industrial premises.
• New ANS projects: ASIS organizational security and resilience; standard welding procedure specification for gas metal arc welding aluminum; guide for strengthening and repairing existing structures; and a standard for robot lidar safety.
• Final actions on ANSs: industrial robots and robot systems safety; and professional cleaning of the built environment for infection prevention and control.
• Draft IEC and ISO docs: LED lamp Safety; multicore and symmetrical pair/quad cables; extended colour encodings for digital image storage; requirements for training citizen science divers; secondary cells and batteries containing alkaline or other non-acid electrolytes, sealed nickel-metal hydride prismatic rechargeable cells and batteries; germicidal UV luminaires radiation safety; safety framework and guidelines for home control and data communication messages; test methods of electrolyte for vanadium flow battery.
• Recently published ISO & IEC docs: test methods for laser-induced damage threshold; requirements and recommendations for human capital reporting and disclosure; functional requirements to determine the status of self-quarantine through Internet of Things data interfaces; and managing public health emergencies in smart cities.
• TSP meetings in October in Minneapolis.
• 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.