What's New > New Standards Watch | 10 November 2025
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- One ESTA standard in public review.
- ANSI seeks comments on children's rights management ISO TC.
- FCC eliminates 396 rules, gives 20 days to comment.
- BTS presents webinar on dealing with substance use.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: IoT rules in India; electrical equipment in Spain.
- ANSI public reviews: personal fall arrest; welding aluminum; class 4 fault managed power; nickel battery safety; electrical equipment maintenance; building materials fire tests; IoT connected lighting; lighting system photobiological safety; intelligent device management; AFCI and GFCI installation; and data communication networks.
- CSA public review: clarifying grounding connections.
- DIN public review: safety colors and signs.
- New ANS projects: recovery from disasters; and the NFPA's NEC.
- Final actions on ANSs: public safety telecommunicator training; C & C++; inclusive terminology; model life cycle with uncertainty quantification; temporary grounding; lighting EMC; and voltage dips.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: conductor markings; IoT; compliance management; SQuaRe; Fortran; photobiological safety; wind on structures; brain-computer interfaces; and electrical machinery safety.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: natural disaster safety signs; infection control in exhibitions; internships; lifts and escalators; testing AI; JavaScript Object Notation.
- Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Programwith new donors.
The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available at http://estalink.us/nn7a1.


