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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
• WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: USA Blade contact injuries on table saws
• ANSI public reviews: Safety standards for holiday decorative panels, portable power cables, A/V enclosure and rack systms, and pin and sleeve connectors; sheet metal welding; power consumption of A/V equipment; noise-cancelling headphones and earphones; existing building inspections; portable power distribution equipment; low voltage landscape lighting systems; image sizes for 2D A/V content; continuous hinges; DTV profile for high-speed digital interfaces; ESD protection; seven NFPA drafts: flammable or combustible spray applications; electrical equipment maintenance; smoke control systems; grandstands, seating, tents and membrane structures; smoke and heat venting; fire lods for structural fire protection design; MPEG codecs; SJI load tables for K-, LH-, and DLH-series joists; automatic roof vents for smoke and heat
• One DIN standard for use of safety signs
• New ANS projects: Worm gear mesh geometry; T100 information and communication technology code for buildings; use of social media in emergency communications centers; master clock standard
• Final actions on American National Standards: Glue-lam timber for utility structures; Information security non-repudiation; KPEG 200 image coding; Security techniques for time-stamping services; project management; cables in fault-managed power systems; outdoor patio heaters; secure software development framework; DC power capacitors, receptacle enclosures and portable power racks
• Draft IEC and ISO docs: Acoustic design for buildings; preparation for painting of steel substrates; differentiation of textile coloration process; describing whole-body movement sequences; cybersecurity and privacy protection; affective computing user interfaces; IGBTs; OLEDs; laser products safety - measurements for classification; transportable table saws; air quality units of measurement; cylindrical involute gears; digital publishing of EPUB 3 archives; AI system logging, and guidance for human oversight; digitization of product carbon footprints; IoT data format; brain computer interfaces
• Recently published ISO & IEC docs: BIM data templates; information security, cybersecurity, and privacy protection; Photovoltaic systems performance; ergonomics; W3C web content accessibility guidelines; DSDL
• 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.