What's New > New Standards Watch | 25 September 2025
September 29, 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.
- Virtual trainings from the Behind the Scenes Mental Health Initiative.
- ESA Canada Event Safety Summit.
- DTHG Energie Studie.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade with USA changes to NRTL standards and reporting greenhouse gases.
- ANSI public reviews: room noise; winches; arc-flash hazard; shipboard electrical systems; TLS for data storage; SQL; GQL; and online privacy notices.
- New ANS projects: mobile ladder stands; permanent scaffold support equipment; and six ESTA projects for fire safety, manual hoists, Uniform Device Representation, cybersecurity, and photobiological safety.
- Final actions on American National Standards: five ASHRAE/IES 90.1 addenda; LED drivers; drapery operators; wearable sound amplifiers; digital and analog audio interfaces; portable loudspeaker battery duration; cleaning meth labs; engine-generator safety; scaffold hoists; flexible lighting products; automated mobile platforms; underwater luminaires; electric sign safety; and GFCI safety.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: wireless power beams; verification of low-voltage electrical installations; collaborative business management; smart community infrastructure; and Fieldbus.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: quality management systems; ergonomics of the thermal environment; beneficial AI systems; short-range optical wireless communications; and service excellence maturity model.
- TSP meetings in October in Minneapolis.
- Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program--with a new investor!
The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available at http://estalink.us/nn7a1.