What's New > ESTA Standards Watch | May 30, 2024
June 3, 2024
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- Four ESTA standards in public review.
- OSHA heat safety rulemaking.
- Sign-up for ESTA Plugfest.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: digital radios in Thailand; fall protection in China; and white space devices in Canada.
- ANSI public reviews: phosphorescent safety markings; installing panelboards; reusable packaging, oxy-fuel torches; and heat detectors for protective signaling.
- New ANS projects: self-healing GPS; quantum cybersecurity; accessible intelligent cyber-physical systems; Safety by design in generative models; electric vehicle supply equipment; microgrids; LED drivers; and a new NFPA battery safety code.
- Final actions on ANSs: lithium batteries, breath alcohol measuring; three addenda to ASHRAE 62,1; single anchor life lines; four ESTA standards, included E1.1, E1.11, E1.21, and E1.68; IES standard for measuring LED temperature; IES standard for BIM; NFPA alternate approaches to life safety; NFPA emergency and standby power systems; and UL standard for electrical enclosures.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: electrotechnical vocabulary, IoT; additive manufacturing; city needs analysis, smart city water and operations centers; USB interfaces; EV battery swaps and charging stations; and home electronic systems architecture.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: safety colors and signs; IoT trust anchor; innovation management; and corrections to low-voltage switchgear general rules.
- Editors: Richard Nix and Karl Ruling.
- TSP meetings for July in Brooklyn.
- 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.