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Quality Assurance
How our Products are Rated?Our products are certified
to international standards like Underwriters' Laboratories (UL) and Japan
Industrial Standard (JIS). These international certifications are important to
ensure that the products meet the required standards. Choose from our range of
professionally certified products to have the quality assurance.
About Underwriters' Laboratories (UL) Underwriters'
Laboratories (UL) is a non-profit, non-bias agency that tests and rates the
safety and performance of consumer products. Safes that have earned specific UL
ratings will carry a UL label which designates the product's security and
fire-protection ratings. Listed below are some of the UL certifications that
come with our products
- Net Working Time
Denotes time spent trying to
break into a safe using tools such as diamond grinding wheels, high-speed
drills with pressure applying devices, or common hand tools such as hammers,
chisels, saws, and carbide-tip drills. If a safe has been rated with a
30-minute net working time, (TL30), the rating certifies that the safe
successfully withstood a full 30 minutes of attack time with a range of
tools.
- Residential Security Container rating (RSC)
This UL rating is based on testing conducted for a net working time of five
minutes, on all sides, with a range of tools.
- TL-15 rating
The TL-15 rating means the safe
has been tested for a net working time of 15 minutes.
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- TL-30 rating
A product carrying the TL-30
security label has been tested for a net working time of 30 minutes.
- TRTL-30
The TRTL rating designates a safe which
successfully resisted 30 minutes of net working time with a torch and a range
of tools which might include high speed drills and saws with carbide bits, pry
bars, and other impact devices.
- Fire Ratings
- Impact test
The impact test calls for the safe
to be heated to 1550 degrees for 30 minutes (1638 degrees for a 2-hour fire
rated safe) then dropped onto concrete rubble from a height of 30 feet. The
safe is then turned upside down and reheated for another 30 minutes (45 minutes
for a 2-hour fire rated safe). During this process, it must maintain its
integrity and protect all contents in order to pass the UL impact test.
- Explosion hazard test
All UL fire-rated safes
must undergo this test, during which the unit is inserted into a pre-heated
2000 degree oven. If the safe is not constructed properly, the rapid heating
will likely cause an explosion.
- Class 350 1/2-hour fire rating
During this
test, the safe is heated for one-half hour to reach an exterior temperature of
1550 degrees. Because paper will begin to char at approximately 400 degrees,
the unit being tested must maintain an interior temperature of less than 350
degrees during heat-up and cool-down testing in order to earn its rating.
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- Class 350 1-hour fire rating
To earn this
rating, the safe is heated for one hour to reach an exterior temperature of
1550 degrees, then put through the cool-down test. During this time the safe
must maintain an interior temperature of less than 350 degrees.
- Cool-down test
This procedure is a key part of
UL's fire testing procedures. After a one- or two-hour fire rating test, the
safe is left in the oven for cool-down time with the heat turned off. Because
of the intensive heat of one- and two-hour tests, the temperature inside the
safe will continue to rise for up to one hour after the oven is turned off. To
pass UL testing, the safe's interior temperature may not exceed 350 degrees at
any time during heat-up or cool-down procedures.
- Class 350 1-hour Fire & Impact label
The
safe has passed both UL impact testing and Class 350 1-hour fire testing.
- Class 350 2-hour Fire rating
The safe is
heated for two hours to reach an exterior temperature of 1550 degrees and must
maintain an interior temperature of less than 350 degrees to earn this
rating.
Class 350 2-hour fire & impact label - The safe has
passed both UL impact testing and Class 350 2-hour fire testing.^ TOP
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