What's New > New Standards Watch | 13 June 2026
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
- FCC announces exemptions of certain UAS systems and routers.
- Counter Terrorism toolkit available.
- Midwest Rigging Intensive registration is open.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: ecodesign in the EU; nuclear materials and byproducts in the USA.
- ANSI public reviews: walking surface safety; testing fall protection products; circular electronics impact; commissioning lighting and control systems; lighting industrial facilities; lighting theatres and liturgical spaces; and lighting systems fault detectors.
- New ANS projects: reporting expert opinions; qualifications of welding fabricators; modeling EMC; wireless coexistence; quality management systems; company programs for certifying welders; and guidelines for AI trustworthiness.
- Final actions on American National Standards: surface flammability; event safety - medical preparedness; RDM; dimming and control designations; lighting equipment injected currents; and AV entertainment center safety.
- Draft IEC & ISO documents: secondary cells and batteries; human-machine collaboration; brain-computer inteface; digital twin; cooperative systems in a connected home environment; and key performance aspects of smart manufacturing.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: Fieldbus; and oodles of battery standards.
- TSP meeting schedule now with a Followspot Position meeting.
- 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.


