What's New > ESTA Standards Watch | August 31, 2023
The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- A dozen ESTA standards in public review.
- NEC Tentative Interim Amendment about battery-powered controls.
- WTO Technical Barrier to Trade notifications: plywood and cybersecurity labeling in the USA; robots in Korea.
- ANSI public reviews: office building measurement; green buildings; spraying and dipping flammable materials; fire protection of IT equipment; electrical standard for industrial machinery; smoke control systems; smoke and heat venting; aircraft maintenance; mobile home park fire safety; protecting cultural resources; smoke detectors; managing AI bias; installing and testing fiber optic cables; portable generator safety; 11 SQL standards; and supplier relations cybersecurity.
- BSI public review: multimedia signal transmission.
- New ANS projects: ESTA's rigging support points; national electrical safety code (but not the NEC); local and metropolitan area networks; measuring solid-state lighting; wireless LANs; and AI data life cycles.
- Final actions on American National Standards: NFPA standard for motion picture studios and sound stages; robot safety; safety of industrial control cables; flexible lighting products; machine system integration safety; and maintenance of switches.
- TSP meeting and Plugfest schedule for October
- Investors in Innovation.
The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available at http://estalink.us/nn7a1.