What's New > ESTA Standards Watch - March 30, 2021
30 Mars 2021
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- Seven ESTA standards in public review.
- Two new ESTA standards published.
- Apply to serve on the 2024 IECC Development Committees.
- Behind the Scenes offers mental health toolbox.
- WTO Technical Barrier to Trade notification: electrical machinery and parts, audio/visual recorders and parts in Brazil.
- ANSI public reviews: flame tests for building materials; fire terminology; web services for control networking; winches; Green Globes and commercial buildings; face protection from spurting bodily fluid; and NFPA compressed gasses and cryogenic fluids.
- BSI public review: electromagnetic exposure from lighting equipment.
- CSA public reviews: self-retracting fall arrest devices, and electric fence energizers.
- DIN public review: a framework for digital preservation of cinematographic works.
- New ANS projects: safety requirements for rigging qualifications; safety of receptacles with integral switches; fall descent controllers; ring gaskets for toilets and urinals; low-voltage switchgear enclosures; and passenger ropeways and aerial lifts.
- Final approvals on American National Standards: ESTA's E1.15 and ES1.7; full body harness safety; portable ventilation systems; flame tests for building materials; evaluating fire risks; vaccine storage; and safety of single-pole, locking connectors.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: interpretation sheet for IEC 61000-3-2, harmonic current limits; real-time IoT; hiking & trekking; four standards about luminaires; amusement rides; smart transportation and buses; more amusement rides; risk management vocabulary; three more IoT standards; HR employee engagement guidelines; and registered safety symbols for doors that open right and for doors that open left.
- Recently published IEC & ISO docs: rotating electrical machine standard for $8,936.00; laser product safety standard for $2,842.00; machinery safety; USB power; smart city concepts; quality management; three standards for eye and face protection; project & portfolio management; IoT chattel asset monitoring; robustness of AI neural networks; information security management; global transport data management; and key definitions for women's entrepreneurship.
- TSP meeting schedule for April and July.
- TSP donors who have made long-term, multi-year pledges.
- 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 here.