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Director Alan Donohoe Redd joins U.S. Underwriters Laboratories Technical Panel 72
Being a member of the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) Working Group 263 responsible for writing European Standards for safes, strongrooms (vaults), secure cabinets and physical data protection for the European Union over the last eight years Certified Safes Ireland™ Managing Director Alan Donohoe Redd was delighted to be invited to join Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Standards Technical Panel TC 72 covering UL standards for fire resistance of record protection devices and the UL 155 standard for fire resistance of vault and file room doors.
Many people in Ireland working with physical document and data management will be familiar with Underwriters Laboratories certification for record protection units, UL being the largest testing laboratory in the United States testing over twenty-two billion different products annually, ranging from consumer electronics, alarms, and security equipment, to lasers, medical devices, and robotics.
Having previously helped with U.S. to European standards crossover for the American Airforce in Europe and Ireland’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-IE), Alan is excited to now be involved in affecting secure storage standards for data used on both sides of the Atlantic.