What's New > New Standards Watch | 17 March 2025
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- One ESTA standard in public review.
- FCC: delete, delete, delete.
- NAMM offers tariff perspective.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: four Chinese standards for fall protection.
- ANSI public reviews: furniture sustainability; installing panelboards, NFPA fire code; commissioning fire protection and life safety systems; integrated fire protection and life safety; electrical inspections; protecting buildings from exterior fire; UL standard for industrial control panels; IoT cybersecurity labels; NFPA building construction types; elevators and escalators; active fall protection; fall protection anchorages; NFPA workplace electrical safety; stationary energy storage systems; and inclusive information technology.
- BSI public review announcements: legged robots, and aluminum alloy castings.
- CSA public review announcement: BIM.
- New ANS projects: four ESTA projects about rigging and crowd management; design for risk prevention; risk management; inspection of energy storage systems; Near Field Communications; EMC and lighting equipment; climate risk assessment; and cannabis good manufacturing practices.
- Final actions on American National Standards: testing energy storage systems; cybersecurity; IES file formats; IES color science; lighting museums; roadway lighting; LED chromaticity shift; flicker; track lighting safety; emergency lighting and power; radio noise emissions from low-voltage equipment.
- Recently published ISO & IEC documents: industrial wireless coexistence; electrical energy storage systems; anti-bribery management; industrial protective helmets; construction project governance; Internet of media things; and large outdoor fires and the built environment.
- 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.