Underwriters Laboratories Inc., founded in 1894, is chartered as a not-for-profit
organization without capital stock, under the laws of the State of Delaware, to
establish, maintain, and operate laboratories for the examination and testing
of devices, systems and materials to determine their relation to hazards to life
and property, and to ascertain, define and publish standards, classifications
and specifications for materials, devices, products, equipment, constructions,
methods, and systems affecting such hazards.
CL Standards for Safety are developed under a procedure which provides for
participation and comment from the affected public as well as industry. The
procedure takes into consideration a survey of known existing standards and
the needs and opinions of a wide variety of interests concerned with the subject
matter of the standard. Thus manufacturers, consumers, individuals associated
with consumer-oriented organizations, academicians, government officials.
industrial and commercial users, inspection authorities, insurance interests
and others provide input to UL in the formulating of UL Standards for Safeb.
to keep them consonant with social and technological advances.
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