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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.

News items in this issue include:

• GCMA publishes Words Matter.”
• Heat advice from OSHA.
• WTO Technical Barriers to Trade; flammability of building materials and products in China; and IoT gateway devices in India.
• ANSI public reviews: audiometers; aluminum and other brazing; color management; digital audio interfaces; battery duration powering loudspeakers; electrical testing technician certification; technical rescue personnel qualifications, water supplies for suburban and rural fire-fighting; emergency services communications; building environmental control sequences; scene investigation, when responding to a scene; listener area dynamic range; safe use of lasers outdoors; AV equipment safety; photovoltaic hazard control; manufacturing investment guidance; and lithium batteries in stationary applications.
• BSI public reviews: Safety requirements for secondary sodium ion cells and batteries; and electrical enclosures.
• CSA public review:  suspended equipment safety
• New ANS projects. BOMA retail property measurement; generator stator ground fault protection; C and C++; lithium cell safety; solid-state over-current protectors; CTA standard for energy management; and engineered wood flooring.
• Final actions on American National Standards: electric vehicle energy management; drone data transmission, carpet sustainability; photovoltaic module safety, and another lithium battery standard.
• Draft IEC & ISO docs: non-acid batteries; intelligent device management; 5G industrial networks; brain-computer interfaces; IoT behavior and context awareness; industrial robots; vanadium flow batteries; sharing economy; and EV chargers and controllers.
• Recently published ISO & IEC docs: SPINE, IoT, and SHIP; presentation of information for humans; smart city planning; industrial process measurement and control; meta-modeling for smart manufacturing; computer and consumer device power supply interoperability;  human aspects of dependability; and developing smart energy ontologies.
• TSP meetings 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.