What's New > ESTA Standards Watch | March 7, 2023
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.
- Funding to offset energy costs for German cultural institutions.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: USA leasing 4.9 GHz for public safety radio; AV equipment EMC in Brazil; hazardous material labeling in Mexico; and 154 pages of packaging regulations in the EU.
- ANSI public reviews: balancing HVAC; below-the-hook lifting devices; physiological and behavioral effects of lighting in interior daytime environments; managed fall protection programs; NFPA building code, workplace electrical safety, static electricity, and life safety code.
- New ANS projects: NFPA community risk reduction and training fire service personnel to do community risk reduction.
- Final actions on ANSs: mental health technology; uniform mechanical code; uniform plumbing code; and spatial daylight autonomy.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: video fire detection; unmanned aircraft words; building noise; and three circular economy standards.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: TV loudspeakers; two AV power consumption standards; lithium batteries; photobiological safety of lamps; EMC mitigation; partially automated parking systems; ergonomics ease of operation; public information guidance systems, enterprise canonical model part 1; and immersive content for education.
- 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.