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Text Box: Safe Ratings

 

Safe Ratings & Terminology

 

 

Burglary Ratings:

 

·   B                  Theft resistant (minimum security)

 

·   RSC            Underwriters’ Laboratories Residential Security Container label

 

·   C                  Non-rated anti-theft (incorporates features of high security safes without a UL rating)

 

·   TL15            Underwriters’ Laboratories TL-15 label

 

·   TL30            Underwriters’ Laboratories TL-30 label

 

·   TL30X6        Underwriters’ Laboratories TL-30X6 or TRTL-30 label

 

Fire Ratings:

 

·   FR — Fire resistant unrated insulated safe

 

·   1/2 hr — UL class 350. Protects valuables for up to 30 minutes with outside temperature of 1550

      degrees.

 

·   1 hr — UL class 350. Protects valuables for up to 1 hour with outside temperature of 1700

      degrees.

 

·   1 hr+ — UL class 350. Protects valuables for up to 1 hour with an outside temperature of 1700

      degrees, plus survived drop test from 30 feet.

 

·   2 hr — UL class 350. Protects valuables for up to 2 hours with an outside temperature of 1850

      degrees.

 

·   2 hr+ — UL class 350. Protects valuables for up to 2 hours with outside temperature of 1850

      degrees, plus survived drop test onto rubble from 30 feet.

 

UL Underwriters' Laboratories (UL) - 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.

 

·   Net Working Time - This is the UL term for testing time which is 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.

 

·   Theft resistant - This rating means the safe provides a combination lock and minimal theft protection.

 

·   Residential