What's New > ESTA Standards Watch | October 25, 2023
The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- NATEAC 2024 requests session proposals.
- ESTA standards in public review.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: single-use plastic bags, containers, and utensils in Canada; fusion power in the USA; cadmium in quantum dots in the EU; and ozone-depleting chemicals in the USA.
- ANSI public reviews: welding; electronics reuse and recycling; aluminum alloys; safe motor vehicle operation: hot work blankets & curtains; good workmanship; unmanned aircraft systems and networks; active shooter response; and AI life cycle.
- Technical Reports Registered with ANSI: measuring voltage, current, power, et cetera.
- New ANS projects: cybersecurity, personnel nets; construction and demolition site emergency procedures; personal fall protection systems; and safety & health with multi-employer projects.
- Final actions on American National Standards: rescue and fall protection; wood construction, crime scene cleanup; leakage current, and an EMC dictionary.
- Draft IEC & ISO documents: medical robots; DALI part 306; multimedia battery life, tourist information, goods and passenger lifts; EMC in industrial environments; IoT and quarantines; brain-computer interfaces; professional farmer organization; product instructions; and non-linear PCM audio encoding.
- Recently published ISO & IEC documents: cybersecurity, and smart buildings in smart communities.
- Editors.
- TSP meetings.
- Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program, with a new investor, Ondelight.
The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available at http://estalink.us/nn7a1.