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

News items in this issue include:

• Powered floor machinery standard in public review.
• WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: RoHS in the EU; EMC in Saudi Arabia; lighting efficiency, functionality, and labeling in Kuwait; and lasers in Canada.
• ANSI public reviews: mass fatalities victim accounting; ropes; product noise declarations; storm shelters; lighting equipment fluctuations and flicker; balanced twisted-pair cabling; and severe accident progression and radiological release for light water reactors.
• CSA public reviews: user guide for steel storage racks and workplace ergonomics.
• New ANS projects: documenting shooting scenes, initial response for scene investigators; response of weighted acoustical measurements; safety of electrical system design; adaptive management of cloud computing; audio and data coding for AI; perceived brightness of colors; eleven parts to IEC 9075, SQL; and supplier relationships cybersecurity.
• Final actions on ANSs: four ASHRAE/ICC/IES/USGBC Standard 189.1 addenda; two  ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 addenda; and B11 safety of machinery.
• Draft IEC & ISO docs: International Electrotechnical Vocabulary, part 428, safety of machinery; DALI part 305; generic cabling for customer premises, part 1; IoT reference architecture; software acquisition; and IEC 60947 part 10, semiconductor circuit-breakers.
• Recently published ISO & IEC docs: safety of machine electrical equipment; footwear sizes; acuponit magnetotherapy plasters, RFID data elements and interference rejection;  JPEG universal metadata box format; making written text easy to read and understand; SQuaRE for AI systems; Internet security; and HR learning and development metrics.
• TSP meeting schedule.
• 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.