May 2017

Ducts - Providing Clarity on Fire

Rated Ventilation Ducts and

Assemblies

This article focuses on providing detail and

guidance to di�erentiate the types of �re

rated duct, and explains how to �nd the

appropriate �re rated duct solution.

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Fire Extinguishing System

Units Intended for Special

Hazard Applications

For special hazard applications, commonly

available agents include carbon dioxide,

condensed aerosol, dry-chemical,

halocarbon clean agent, inert gas clean

agent and wet-chemical. These agents

have been used in place of or as a

supplement to water when water is less

e�ective or could damage equipment.

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The Fire & Security Authority newsletter is provided to help �re code

authorities, designers and contractors achieve safe sustainable code compliant

installations.  

  

  

  

 

 

  

May is Building Safety Month

Building Safety Month is annual event

intended to promote awareness for safety

in our built environment and our

communities. Visit our Building Safety

Month site to see how UL enhances building

safety throughout this important month and

well into the future.

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UL Product SpecTM

now

includes Canadian

Certi�cations

UL Product SpecTM 

, a web-based

compliance search tool that helps easily

locate certi�cation information needed to

achieve safe, sustainable code compliant

installations now includes cUL and ULC

information.  This search tool is a

combination of �ve tools in one which

requires no special login access or training

to use and although it is not an app it's

designed to work equally well on laptops,

notebooks, iPads, and smart phones. 

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Mike Halligan joins UL

UL is excited to announce Mike Halligan has

joined the UL Building, Fire and Security

Inspections business in the Building and Life

Safety Technologies Division as the North

American Project Manager.

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UL Hosts Medal of Valor

  

  

 

 

  

  

  

WinnerAt the 2017, Detroit Public Safety Awards,

Lead Regulatory Engineer Sean DeCrane

represented UL and hosted Medal of Valor

recipient Bryan Lemon and his family at

the UL-sponsored table.

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Child Entrapment – A UniqueApplication of Fire ProtectionEngineeringUL LLC’s Fire R&D team was requested to

develop a test to evaluate a washer or

dryer’s ventilation. Find out why UL’s Fire

R&D team was requested to conduct this

type of work on these types of electrical

appliances, where the particular risk

prevention being studied was not related to

a potential �re hazard.

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What new online training doesUL have for 2017?Over the past few months UL has released

many online training modules and we

continue to work hard to bring more

cutting edge educational training

opportunities to the building and life

safety industries.

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