What's New > New Standards Watch | 25 August 2025
August 26, 2025
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- Ten ESTA/ESA standards in public review.
- Newest edition of ACN is available for download.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: frequency-hopping systems in Canada; more time to use Trichloroethylene in the USA; and reconsidering the 2009 endangerment finding and greenhouse gas vehicle standards in the USA.
- ANSI public reviews: small wind turbines; arc welding aluminum; measuring retail shop size; uniform mechanical code; uniform plumbing code; balance lifting units; structural stainless steel buildings; glulam timbers; and solid-state circuit breakers.
- New ANS projects: human-AI systems tests and workplace violence prevention.
- Final actions on ANSs: power feeder cables in mines; school security; structural welding code for sheet steel; VR video; gait monitoring; robot safety; battery powered industrial trucks; and panelboard safety.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: Ethernet transceivers; 5G industrial networks; multimedia in the metaverse; IoT; unmanned space systems guidelines; human resource management data handling; digital twins; and cross-platform IoT management policy.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: DALI; environmental declarations for wires and cables; guidelines for using ISO 14001; bar code and two-dimensional symbols for shipping; mobile elevating work platforms; guidelines for urban reclaimed water for landscaping; essential requirements for luxury yacht harbours; bases for design of structures; internet of media things, part 4; SQuaRE measurement of quality in use; and technical criteria for food ingredients to be considered natural.
- TSP meetings in October.
- 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.