What's New > ESTA Standards Watch | March 27, 2023
March 28, 2023
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- A quartet of ESTA standards in public review.
- Three ESTA standards approved and published.
- What is an American National Standard anyway?
- Facebook and the Bardo.
- Virtual training for mental health first aid and bystander intervention.
- Revised ICC code development schedule published.
- WTO Technical Barrier to Trade notifications: battery chargers in the USA; revised RoHS in the UK; and industrial safety for lots of common chemicals in Japan.
- ANSI public reviews: withdrawal of a sound standard; a tweak about LPA and LPD in ASHRAE/IES 90.1; battery management systems; portable cells and batteries; cybersecurity for consumer robotics; maintaining electrical equipment per the NECA; industrial premises telecoms infrastructure; information security parts 2 and 3; JPEG 2000 extensions; universal coded character set; cloud management interface; more information security; and the C programming language.
- DIN public review announcement: words for theatres and multi-purpose venues.
- New ANS projects: measuring audio amplifiers, ICC Performance Code; glass and glazing safety; maintaining electrical equipment per the NFPA; NFPA explosive materials code, premises security, premises security systems, and facility emergency action plan.
- Final actions on ANSs: three addenda to ASHRAE/ICC/IES/USGBC Standard 189.1-2020; one addendum to ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1-2022; one addendum to ASHRAE/IES Standard 100-2018; evaluating net zero energy and net zero carbon; personal fall protection; how big is that house; and cloud services security.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: laser safety, compressed air systems, urine-absorbing products; wiring systems, EMC; and luminaire general requirements and tests.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: CIE photometry; virtual keyboards; USB 4 specs; and five Fieldbus standards costing a total of $1,500.00.
- TSP meeting schedule for NAMM in Anaheim
- 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.