Project EPIC aims to provide locally relevant data using the best available science for country and sub-national thresholds for standard development.
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In pursuit of the UL mission of working for a safer world, UL Standards & Engagement believes in optimizing the reach and impact of our safety standards. Project EPIC (Engineering Principles for International Considerations) provides stakeholders with the minimum criteria for consideration when adopting global standards to help ensure that these standards mitigate the risks and hazards associated with their specific regions. By displaying minimum criteria for various regions, the web-based application allows standards bodies to apply relevant engineering principles and technical considerations as they adopt or adapt standards.
When adopting or adapting a standard, it is important to help reduce risk by considering appropriate region-specific conditions such as climate and environmental factors. These factors are becoming increasingly important to standards development as extreme weather events become more severe, more frequent and more costly – a trend we have observed over the past two decades. Through data collection, analysis and reporting, we provide regulators and regional representatives with a documented scientific approach to help ensure that region-specific conditions, parameters and other limiting factors can be taken into consideration when adopting standards. Standards adoption and adaptation requires standards development organizations (SDOs) to consider historic, current and future environmental scenarios at local and global scales.
To create a safer, more sustainable world, data and scientific discoveries must be amplified and translated into action.
That's what we do at UL Standards & Engagement. Through data analysis, expert testimony, and deliberation, we work to bring members of standards technical panels into alignment on a common set of safety requirements.
Distinguished by our independent research and scientific acumen, we’ve been driving cutting-edge science into practical safety guidance since we developed our first standard for tin-clad fire doors in 1903.
We partner with leading minds and standards organizations from around the world to draw upon an ever-growing body of scientific knowledge. Informed by the findings of UL Research Institutes and other global experts, we develop unbiased consensus-based standards that help create a dynamic road map to a safer future. But we don’t stop there. We also build policy partnerships to help ensure that our knowledge reaches the safety professionals, policymakers, scientists, and industry leaders who use safety science to protect and educate our communities.
These standards and policy initiatives promote awareness and adoption of safer products, services, systems, and behaviors, including the safe commercialization of evolving technologies.
As a science-backed safety advocate with global reach, we engage key stakeholders to advance our mission worldwide. UL Standards & Engagement is a trusted and objective resource for an international array of public and private partners. Our public outreach initiatives, safety advocacy, and related coalition-building activities leverage standards that measurably impact public safety in nations throughout the world.
We advocate for scientifically tested measures and policy changes that have the power to make emerging technologies, products, and systems safer. Together with the leaders and communities that join us, we are moving the world toward a safer, more secure, and more sustainable tomorrow.
