For more than a century, UL has advanced Fire Safety with the goals of helping to prevent fires, injury and loss of life, and minimize property damage. Advances in materials, design and construction techniques offer new benefits but also present new challenges and risks, making fire more dangerous today than in the past. From detection and reaction to containment, suppression and prevention, Fire Safety represents an increasingly complex ecosystem. UL works with manufacturers, authorities, built environment professionals and the firefighter community to stay at the forefront, creating New Science to shape the future of Fire Safety. http://www.ul.com/firesafety

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FIRE SAFETY
Today’s advances in materials, design
and construction techniques offer new
benefits but also present new challenges
and risks, making fire more dangerous
today than in the past. From detection
and reaction to containment, suppression
and prevention, Fire Safety represents
an increasingly complex ecosystem.

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FIRE SAFETY CHALLENGES

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1. “The U.S. Fire Problem,” National Fire Protection Association, Web: 18 Mar. 2013.
http://www.nfpa.org/categoryList.asp?categoryID=953
HOW CAN WE HELP MINIMIZE FIRE
RELATED INJURIES?

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2. “Home Electrical Fires,” National Fire Protection Association, Web: 18 Mar. 2013.
http://www.nfpa.org/itemdetail.asp?categoryid=2439&itemid=55501&url=research/statistical%20reports/major%20causes/
HOW CAN WE WORK TO REDUCE
THE RATE OF ELECTRICAL
MALFUNCTIONS IN HOMES?

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3. “Performance of Home Smoke Alarms Analysis of the Response of Several Available Technologies in Residential Fire Settings,”
NIST Technical Note 1455-1, February 2008. Executive Summary, Web: 18 Mar. 2013.
http://www.nist.gov/el/fire_protection/buildings/upload/ExecSummaryfromNIST_TN_1455-1_Feb2008.pdf
HOW CAN WE ASSIST IN DEVELOPING
MORE EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUES TO
FIGHT FIRES?

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4. “Comparison of Modern and Legacy Home Furnishings,” UL Research Demonstration, 2009. Web: 9 Oct. 2012.
https://www.ul.com/room_fire/room_fire.html
HOW CAN IMPROVED PROCESSES AND
ADVANCED INSIGHTS MITIGATE MORE
DANGEROUS FIRES TODAY?

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UL’S NEW SCIENCE
OF FIRE SAFETY
UL’s Fire Safety New Science involves a
variety of important breakthroughs that
can help save lives and limit loss of
property. We are creating new testing
methods, new insights and new
processes that help advance Fire Safety.
UL works with
manufacturers, authorities, built
environment professionals and the
firefighter community to stay at the
forefront, creating New Science to shape
the future of Fire Safety.

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LEARN MORE ABOUT
WIRELESS CHARGING
OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES
UL pioneered a methodology for testing wireless
EV chargers. We created new computational
modeling techniques to gauge safety, compatibility
and efficiency.

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WHAT DOES STATISTICALLY
PREDICTING ELECTRICAL
ARCING OFFER?
UL engineers are using predictive modeling to
help quantify risk and advance standards related
to electrical arcing.

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READ ABOUT OUR
ADVANCED COMPUTER
MODELING
UL is focusing on the behavior and structural
response of steel fire doors and wood beams in
a fire environment.

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DISCOVER THE
NEW DYNAMICS OF
BASEMENT FIRES
Basement fires are among the most dangerous.
UL plays a critical role in examining the hazards
associated with various types of residential
flooring systems to better understand this risk.

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READ ABOUT OUR
WORK WITH LITHIUM
ION BATTERIES
UL scientists and researchers are helping define
and develop safety tests that assess the propensity
of a battery to experience a short circuit under
certain abuse conditions.

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DISCOVER WHY
MODERN RESIDENTIAL
FIRES ARE MORE
DANGEROUS TODAY
UL determined that fires today are more
dangerous and pose more risks than in the past.
Fire propagation is faster, and time to
flashover, escape times and collapse times are all
shorter.

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LEARN ABOUT OUR
PV PANEL RESEARCH
UL has led the discovery around fire risks associated
with PV panels, developing a standard for arc fault
protection for PV systems and are among the first
to address fire service operational hazards.

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