New Senior Vice President and CFO Ron Blaustein to provide financial leadership as Underwriters Laboratories organizations grow to help solve urgent global safety challenges.

Underwriters Laboratories has been researching how to prevent battery-related fires and other safety hazards issues affecting high-energy batteries.

UL’s Firefighter Safety Research Institute has published a third online training course to share lessons learned through a series of experiments designed to uncover the most effective ways of coordinating firefighting suppression and ventilation tactics.

As a National Science Foundation’s Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) advisory board member, Cramer will help drive transformative engineering research.

“Find solutions that you can build that will help people as quickly as possible and work from there,” urged Brent Hecht, a computer science associate professor at Northwestern University and director of applied science in Microsoft’s Experiences and Devices division. “There’s nothing wrong with a highly iterative low-hanging fruit-based strategy at this stage of the game.”

In a recent episode of the Tech for Change podcast from 94.3 Radio One FM India, Electrochemical Safety Research Institute Vice President and Executive Director Dr. Judy Jeevarajan spoke about how exponential growth in the battery industry has called for greater safety measures and her work to help bridge that gap.

The deadly Iroquois Theatre fire of 1903 prompted numerous fire safety reforms still in place today, as described in an upcoming episode of WTTW-TV’s “Chicago Stories” series that explores downtown Chicago disasters with lasting impact. Its horrible toll also helped inspire the creation of UL labels, a symbol of safety now widely recognized by consumers. Formed in 1906, the UL Label Service was in part a response to findings that the Iroquois Theatre’s six fire extinguishers and other so-called fire protection measures were ineffective.

We prioritize the safety, security and sustainability of our employees, our customers and our communities worldwide. Accordingly, Underwriters Laboratories has made the decision to stop all work in Russia and Belarus.