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The late March issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available. Check it out!

News items in this issue include: 

• A quartet of ESTA standards in public review. 
• Three ESTA standards approved and published. 
• What is an American National Standard anyway?
•  Facebook and the Bardo. 
• Virtual training for mental health first aid and bystander intervention. 
• Revised ICC code development schedule published. 
• WTO Technical Barrier to Trade notifications: battery chargers in the USA; revised RoHS in the UK; and industrial safety for lots of common chemicals in Japan. 
• ANSI public reviews: withdrawal of a sound standard; a tweak about LPA and LPD in ASHRAE/IES 90.1; battery management systems; portable cells and batteries; cybersecurity for consumer robotics; maintaining electrical equipment per the NECA; industrial premises telecoms infrastructure; information security parts 2 and 3; JPEG 2000 extensions; universal coded character set; cloud management interface; more information security; and the C programming language. 
• DIN public review announcement: words for theatres and multi-purpose venues. 
•  New ANS projects: measuring audio amplifiers, ICC Performance Code; glass and glazing safety; maintaining electrical equipment per the NFPA; NFPA explosive materials code, premises security, premises security systems, and facility emergency action plan. 
• Final actions on ANSs: three addenda to ASHRAE/ICC/IES/USGBC Standard 189.1-2020; one addendum to ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1-2022; one addendum to ASHRAE/IES Standard 100-2018; evaluating net zero energy and net zero carbon; personal fall protection; how big is that house; and cloud services security. 
• Draft IEC & ISO docs: laser safety, compressed air systems, urine-absorbing products; wiring systems, EMC; and luminaire general requirements and tests. 
• Recently published ISO & IEC docs: CIE photometry; virtual keyboards; USB 4 specs; and five Fieldbus standards costing a total of $1,500.00. 
• TSP meeting schedule for NAMM in Anaheim 
• Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program.

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