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Is Your Company Ready to Become Part of the Make Life Safer Program?
If this is your first time participating in a UFAC Verification Program, take these three steps to verification: 1) apply and agree to the current Terms of Participation, 2) complete sample testing, and 3) order your tags.
Your company will be required to provide product component samples for testing at an UFAC-approved, independent, third-party accredited laboratory. Once your samples have been processed and passing test results received, you will then be eligible to purchase Make Life Safer or Make Life Safer Plus program hangtags, depending on which testing you have completed.
NOTE: All UFAC participating companies must get verified first with the Make Life Safer (blue) program before joining the Make Life Safer Plus (green) program.
It’s easy. If UFAC already has your current year verification testing results on file, you may simply reorder tags.
Which Tag is Right for Your Product Line?
Make Life Safer (Blue) Tag
- Independent support for a manufacturer’s advertising claims that its furniture complies with the CPSC national furniture flammability standard.
- Testing is not required by the CPSC. Voluntarily testing to verify compliance shows that your company takes home fire safety seriously.
- Knowledge that your upholstered furniture is safer, having met the national furniture fire safety standard for upholstered furniture, as administered by UFAC, with verification by an independent laboratory
Make Life Safer Plus (Green) Tag
- Independent support for a manufacturer’s advertising claims that its furniture a) complies with U.S. state bans on flame retardant chemicals, and b) reduces consumer exposure to flame retardant chemicals.
- Testing is not required by the any State’s FR regulation. Voluntarily testing to verify compliance shows that your company takes home fire safety and consumer health seriously.
- A laboratory test and data-management system that goes beyond written assurances from suppliers about the use of common toxic flame retardants (FR) chemicals and relies upon independent data from third-party testing by certified laboratories and overseen by UFAC and the UFAC Technical Advisory Committee.
- A standard FR chemical test protocol established (and continually updated) by a technical committee that includes a world-recognized flame retardant specialist and a diverse group of chemical, furniture, textile, and other experts.
Both Tags Include These Great Benefits
- Product differentiation with a preeminent, attractive, on-product mark that provides a recognizable and reliable brand for healthier and safer living
- A modern website with answers to common consumer questions about home fire safety and chemical safety (flame retardants)
- A product safety social media campaign that reflects positively on the manufacturer’s brand
- An ability to help reduce liability and credibly respond to consumer advocates, litigants, and/or government inquiries by relying on robust and independent data and science
- Retail Sales Support through consumer education and sales materials
- New! Compliance Recordkeeping through our Online Portal
