What's New > ESTA Standards Watch | July 10, 2023
The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- Powered floor machinery standard in public review.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: RoHS in the EU; EMC in Saudi Arabia; lighting efficiency, functionality, and labeling in Kuwait; and lasers in Canada.
- ANSI public reviews: mass fatalities victim accounting; ropes; product noise declarations; storm shelters; lighting equipment fluctuations and flicker; balanced twisted-pair cabling; and severe accident progression and radiological release for light water reactors.
- CSA public reviews: user guide for steel storage racks and workplace ergonomics.
- New ANS projects: documenting shooting scenes, initial response for scene investigators; response of weighted acoustical measurements; safety of electrical system design; adaptive management of cloud computing; audio and data coding for AI; perceived brightness of colors; eleven parts to IEC 9075, SQL; and supplier relationships cybersecurity.
- Final actions on ANSs: four ASHRAE/ICC/IES/USGBC Standard 189.1 addenda; two ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 addenda; and B11 safety of machinery.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: International Electrotechnical Vocabulary, part 428, safety of machinery; DALI part 305; generic cabling for customer premises, part 1; IoT reference architecture; software acquisition; and IEC 60947 part 10, semiconductor circuit-breakers.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: safety of machine electrical equipment; footwear sizes; acuponit magnetotherapy plasters, RFID data elements and interference rejection; JPEG universal metadata box format; making written text easy to read and understand; SQuaRE for AI systems; Internet security; and HR learning and development metrics.
- 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.