Underwriters laboratories INC.'s mission is: to advance safety science through research and investigation for the public good; to promote safe living and working environments for people by the application of safety science research and hazard-based safety engineering; to support the research and development of products that are physically and environmentally safe and to apply our research efforts towards prevention or reduction LOSS of life and property for the broader public good; to educate the general public about safety science through the publication and dissemination of research results