What's New > ESTA Standards Watch - February 26, 2021
The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- Seven ESTA standards in public review.
- New ESTA American National Standards projects: two original, one revision.
- The future of atmospheric effects in film making.
- Registration opens for the Virtual New World Rigging Symposium.
- Severe Weather Summit returns.
- Registration opens for ICC Group A Code Committee Action Hearings.
- WTO Technical Barrier to Trade notifications: “More Integrity” in Brazil; paints and respirators in Morocco; electrical and electronic equipment and equipment used outdoors in the Ukraine; chemicals in Russia; vaping products in the USA; workplace machinery in Mexico; and everything electrical in Denmark.
- ANSI public reviews: automated mobile platforms; slings; building accessibility; and off-site construction (but not HUD manufactured housing).
- New ANS projects: energy simulation aided design; MPEG-A; lots of cold-formed steel framing standards; and mental health technology solutions.
- Final actions on American National Standards: laser safety; retail property sizing; stored/standby energy safety; weapons of mass destruction response planning; safety of holiday decorations; safety of adjustable speed drives; and cloud computing SLA framework part 2.
- Draft IEC & ISO documents: Fieldbus; UV-C safety; IoT underwater; HES EMA functional requirements; coating aluminum and alloys; and managing open data for smart cities.
- Recently published IEC & ISO documents: oodles of Fieldbus and Field Device Integration; modularity of service robots, unmanned aircraft personnel training; building management energy performance; measurement uncertainty; cooperative intelligent transport systems; safety of machinery; and human resource management compliance and ethics metrics.
- TSP meeting schedule, with a longer CPWG meeting in April.
- TSP donors who have made long-term, multi-year pledges.
- Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program, with some additions.
The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available here.