Initiatives

Product design must be inclusive to be effective. Read how we’re using standards to help make products and systems gender responsive.

To ensure products, systems and services operate safely and effectively, we develop standards that address risks while guiding safety, performance, and sustainability.

Companies are making great strides with sustainability, but the impact is often difficult to quantify. Read how we're using standards to help companies evaluate circular economy efforts.

We convene roundtable sessions with key leaders from industry, government, consumer groups, and standards bodies to create a roadmap for the development of consistent and effective safety standards. 

To help advance the U.N. 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, we're working to align our standards catalogue and standards development process with the 17 critical SDGs.

Women who are safety science experts provide insights on navigating their careers and reflect on how they push the boundaries, develop resilience and confidence, and build a niche for themselves.

Work continues with partners across North America to help harmonize standards and promulgate UL standards across the Latin American region.

By optimizing our approach to standards development, we continue to drive safety through standardization and quickly adapt to the rapidly changing and advancing world around us.

As a corporate partner of Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep, we are proud to participate in the work-study program to provide students with a valuable, hands-on internship experience.

Battery-powered ground support vehicles at airports offer zero emissions and reduced fuel consumption, but also present new safety risks. Our Standard, UL 5840, help to address these risks.

Read how UL 3100, the Standard for Safety for Automated Mobile Platforms (AMPs), helps to safely guide the development of automated hardware in industrial environments.