What's New > ESTA Standards Watch - February 16, 2022
February 17, 2022
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- Six ESTA docs in public review.
- Learn and support the TSP with CM-ET training.
- ICC seeks DEI committee members.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: oodles of stuff (from butter to breakers) in Sri Lanka; oils in packaging and inks in France; computer room air conditioners in the USA; Ukrainian telecommunications; and radios in the 1710-1780 MHz and 2110-2200 MHz bands in Canada.
- ANSI public reviews: concrete structures; rescue and fall protection training; zero net energy and carbon; storm shelters; prefabrication of electrical installations; radon mitigation; motors and generators; particle board and MDF; industrial control panel safety; storing fissile materials; lever hoist performance; and the elevator and escalator safety code.
- CSA public reviews: surge protection on feeders and how much grounding conductor current is okay.
- New ANS projects: portable power feeder cables for mines; guidance on followspot positions in places of public assembly; eight SQL standards, including SQL with JSON; and remote direct memory access.
- Final actions on American National Standards: BOMA; LED drivers; two addenda to to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1-2019; entering confined spaces; information and communication systems for schools.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: human resource management; artificial intelligence risk management; COBOL; BIM; unmanned aircraft; software content management; functional safety of machines; IoT trust and architecture; SQuaRE and CIF; nickel metal hydride batteries; LED luminaires; EMC with inverters; innovation management; bar code format; and USB Type-C connectors and cables.
- Recently published IEC & ISO docs: software maintenance; and laser displays scanning the retina.
- TSP meeting schedule for March 2022.
- TSP donors who have made long-term, multi-year pledges.
- Investors in Innovation, the current list of supporters for ESTA's TSP.
The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available at http://estalink.us/nn7a1.