UL Standards & Engagement’s 2024 Holiday Safety Guide
It’s no mystery that the holidays can create elevated safety risks. Check out our 2024 guide so you can make smart and safe decisions when cooking, gifting, decorating, and traveling this season.
Deaths From E-Bike Fires Declining in New York City After UL Standards Written Into Law
One year after taking effect, NYC's e-bike law is showing a drop in injuries and deaths for the first time since 2021. Read how our standards are helping to make NYC safer.
Battery Thermal Runaway Incidents on Board Passenger and Cargo Aircraft Hit Record High as Passengers Remain Largely Unaware of Risks
Read the report, featuring previously unreleased data from our Thermal Runaway Incident Program.
E‑mobility Fires Can Be Devastating. They Don’t Have To Be.
The e-mobility market has grown dramatically, reducing cars on the road, supporting workers in the gig economy, and helping cities meet sustainability goals. Preserving the e-bike and e-scooter market means protecting against the fire risk these devices carry.
Safety Science in Action
To create a safer, more sustainable world, data and scientific discoveries must be amplified and translated into action.
That's what we do at UL Standards & Engagement. Through data analysis, expert testimony, and deliberation, we work to bring members of standards technical panels into alignment on a common set of safety requirements.
Distinguished by our independent research and scientific acumen, we’ve been driving cutting-edge science into practical safety guidance since we developed our first standard for tin-clad fire doors in 1903.
We develop and publish consensus standards that help guide the safety, performance, and sustainability of new and evolving products, technologies, and services that range from household appliances, smoke alarms, and batteries to building materials, cybersecurity, and autonomous vehicles.
A Globally Influential Standards Development Organization
Delivering Standards for Safety, Performance, and Sustainability
Safety standards are documents that outline the process through which a product or service is tested and evaluated to confirm its compliance with requirements that help to instill safety, security, and sustainability. Since publishing its first standard in 1903, UL Standards & Engagement has developed more than 1,700 standards. In extending our global public safety mission, we partner with national and regional standards bodies in countries around the world to build a safer, more sustainable world.
Accredited Standards Developers in Canada and the U.S.
We are proud to be an accredited standards developer in Canada and the U.S. and authorized to develop national standards for Mexico. This means that we are able to develop standards to advance safety, performance, and sustainability to meet stakeholder needs and bridge standards development gaps across much of North America.
Our Stakeholders
Stakeholders are essential to the development and maintenance of UL standards through their voluntary service on our technical committees and technical panels to share expertise and achieve consensus. We convene manufacturers, retailers, consumers, trade associations, regulators, and other authorities from around the world to capture varied and vested interests across different groups. This approach enables input, reviews, and open discussion from wide-ranging perspectives — all facilitated by our non-voting standards development organization.
Issues
As an accredited, globally influential standards development organization, we apply research and safety science to keep pace with new discoveries and technology.
