What's New > New Standards Watch | 13 July 2025
July 14, 2025
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- One ESTA/ESA standard in public review.
- Register for the Midwest Rigging Intensive.
- Behind the Scenes Mental Health Initiative virtual trainings.
- Aerosol coatings VOC restrictions delayed two years.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: packaging in Switzerland and WiFi in India.
- ANSI public reviews: educational institutions IT; AI impact assessment; and emergency management.
- BSI public review; electrical system protective earthing.
- CSA public reviews: wiring methods and disconnecting means.
- DIN public review: DIN EN 17206-1, Machinery for stages.
- New ANS projects: sound power levels; mixed use property measurement; voltage ratings; and generator running cover and tent safety.
- Final actions on American National Standards: HID replacement with LEDs; sound pressure; labeling IoT device cybersecurity; encryption of intellectual property; industrial control panels; and building material surface burning.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: IoT management of cultural heritage assets and stress management; OpenOffice XML; roadside feeding; guide for hybrid meetings; AI concepts and machine learning; facility management; lifts and moving walks EMC; community disaster risk reduction; governance of IT; and environmental aspects for lighting.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: headphones and earphones; educational organization management systems; road vehicle software updates; image gain mapping; service excellence; AI auditing; sound system speech intelligibility; digital audio PCM encoding; and explanatory information related to IEC 62368-1:2023.
- TSP meetings later this month.
- 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.