The UL advantage
The UL Mark is trusted as a symbol of safety, providing recognition for robots that undergo rigorous testing. UL provides a comprehensive program to evaluate risk of personal injury, fire, and electric shock under normal and abnormal conditions. UL's independent evaluation also includes risk analysis with component safety function software failures.
Third party, independent product evaluation
- Listing program for suppliers of robotic equipment
- Field evaluation program for users of installed robotic equipment
- Independent of any robot companies and government agencies
The UL experience
- Over 100 years of testing for public safety
- Standards development through industry participation
- Member RIA 15.06 Robot Safety Subcommittee
- Member RIA 10218 Robot Safety Subcommittee
- Member RIA T15.1 Intelligent Assist Devices Safety Committee (IAD)
- Member NFPA 79 Safety Subcommittee Electrical Standard-Industrial Machinery
Ensures conformance to American national, Canadian national and International standards
- ANSI/UL 1740-2007 Robots and Robotic Equipment
- ANSI/RIA 15.06-1999 American National Standard for Industrial Robots and Robot Systems - Safety Requirements
- ISO/ANSI/RIA 10218-1 Safety Requirements for Robots in an Industrial Environment
- ANSI/NFPA 70 National Electrical Code
- ANSI/NFPA 79 Electrical Standard for Industrial Machinery
- SEMI S2-0200, "Safety Guidelines for Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment"
- CE/EN 775, "Manipulating Industrial Robots - Safety; [ISO 10218:1992 Modified]"
- CE Marking
Growing state and local regulations mandate safety mark on robotic equipment
- State of Alabama
- State of California
- City of Chicago, Illinois
- State of Minnesota
- City of Portland, Oregon
- State of Texas
- Roanoke, Virginia
- State of Washington
- Province of Ontario, Canada
- Others
Testing accepted by other regulatory agencies in the United States and overseas
- OSHA (U.S.A.)
- C-UL Mark accepted in all provinces and territories in Canada
- Ontario Ministry of Labour (MOL) Pre-Start Health and Safety Review (PSR)
- CSA (Canada)
- CE Marking (Europe)
- Japan
- Cooperation with test agencies worldwide
Enhanced customer acceptance
- Labor organization
- Insurance interests
- Plant management
- Fire officials
- Municipal authorities
- Follow-up services to ensure continued conformance with UL requirements
