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

News items in this issue include:

• A call for members.
• A new TSP working group.
• OSHA resources: Equal protection for all, OSHA translations, Download OSHA’s Heat Illness Prevention poster, Participate in OSHA’s Beat the Heat photo contest, Hydration is key to heat illness prevention, Use the OSHA-NIOSH heat app, and new wallet cards and pocket-sized brochure.
• WTO Technical Barriers to Trade notifications: mercury in products in Canada.
• ANSI public reviews: lock-out, tag-out; health and safety training; green building design; soil gas mitigation; quality management;  high-voltage Electronic Control Devices and Conductive Electrical Weapons; video surveillance systems; electric vehicle supply equipment; and portable dehumidifiers.
• CSA public review: PoE.
• DIN public reviews: media servers and stage machinery.
• New ANS projects: commercial air conditioning and heat pumps; smart doors; electrical equipment enclosure ratings; IoT harmonization; parallel autonomy systems within passenger vehicles; cannabis growing and processing fire protection; unmanned aircraft; and a standard for active shooter/hostile event response.
• Final actions on American National Standards: fall protection code; portable batteries, ESTA's raked stages standard; and a revision of TM-30.
• Draft IEC & ISO docs; DALI; assistive listening devices; assessing the proportion of recycled materials; LED horticultural luminaires; high power wireless power transfer; physical network security for cabling; and the installation and quality control of cabling systems. 
• Recently published ISO & IEC docs: three electric vehicle charging standards. LED control gear, and CIE colorimetry.
• 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.