I use this service for tracking new safety requirement. http://tsapps.nist.gov/notifyus/data/index/index.cfm
This free, web-based service provides U.S. entities (citizens, businesses, organizations, etc.) with the opportunity to review and comment on proposed domestic and foreign technical regulations that can affect their businesses. Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are required under the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT Agreement) to report to the WTO any proposed technical regulations that may affect trade with other WTO Members. The WTO Secretariat receives these reports and distributes them as "notifications" all WTO Members. By subscribing to Notify U.S., U.S. entities receive, via e-mail, notifications of changes to domestic and foreign regulations for a specific industry sector and/or country. The industry sectors are defined by the International Classification for Standards (ICS) codes developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). WTO notifications contain a summary of information about the proposed regulation, including a description of the regulation, the country issuing the regulation, and a final date for comments from other WTO Members. We hope you find this a useful service. Please let us know what you think. We welcome your comments: National Center for Standards and Certification Information (NCSCI) National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Drive, MS 2160 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-2160 Telephone: (301) 975-4040 Fax: (301) 926-1559 E-mail: [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian O'Connell Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 3:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Regulatory Search I am reticent to unleash my particular form of madness on this good community. But if my employer approves, I could post my python-based code that implements a web crawler and an RSS client; but my system does most of the work off-line using Beautiful Soup, see <cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/BeautifulSoup>. Your MIS people may have problems with your use of a web crawler, so ask first... If it is not your bent to play with 'raw' source code, perhaps something like the stuff found at <www.google.com/reader> may help to automate some of this. luck, Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Tyra, > John > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 2:39 PM > To: Umbdenstock, Don; Aldous, Scott; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Regulatory Search > > I have searched for years for a single resource which will provide > updates just for Safety regulations and to date have not > found anything. > > We get info from the same sources as others, Agency contacts, news > letters like Compliance Magazine, and just going to > Government websites > on a regular basis to see if there are any updates. If anyone has a > better system I sure would love if they would share the contact. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Umbdenstock, Don > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 5:27 PM > To: Aldous, Scott; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Regulatory Search > > Thanks, Scott. That's a great tool if you know what standards you are > interested in. > > Does anyone know of a way to discover new requirements? For example, > California has mandated an energy conservation law that will require > finding new transformers for some products. > > Don > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Aldous, > Scott > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 4:54 PM > To: Tarver, Peter; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Regulatory Search > > Techstreet has a free tracking service for standards updates. > > http://www.techstreet.com/tracking/track_instruct.tmpl > > Scott Aldous > Compliance Engineer > Advanced Energy > Tel: 970-407-6872 > Fax: 970-407-5872 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Tarver, > Peter > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 2:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Regulatory Search > > I primarily use four points, but there are actually many more > available. > All are easy on the wallet. > > 1) EMC-PSTC list > 2) CDRH update list > 3) IEC update e-mail service > 4) UL update e-mail service > > Regards, > > Peter L. 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