Underwriters Laboratories Inc. was founded in 1984 and is chartered as a not-for-profit organization without capital stock, under the laws of the State of Delaware, to establish maintain and operate laboratories for the examination and testing of devices, systems and materials to determine their relation to hazards to life and property.
UL Standards for Safety are developed under a procedure which provides for participation and comment from the affected public as well as the industry. The procedure takes into consideration a survey of known existing standards, and the needs and opinions of a wide variety of interests concerned with the subject matter of the Standard. Thus manufacturers, consumers, individuals associated with consumer-oriented organizations, academicians, government officials, industrial and commercial users, inspection authorities, insurance interests and others provide input to UL in the formulating of UL Standards for Safety, and keeping them consonant with social and technological advances.
Although UL approval has not been required for tanning beds in the past, many local ordinances and municipalities now require it.
The following is a list of UL rules and regulations that must be met in order to obtain UL approval for sun/heat lamps.
