The owners at SafeWorld believe that every home should have a safe to preserve your treasures and protect your valuables.  Safes are not only for your home, in fact...every business should have a safe to protect your business assets and your Intellectual data!

Safes are the last defense against burglary

The purpose of a safe or vault is to protect the contents by resisting a physical attack or fire. The longer the safe resists a physical attack or fire, the greater the likelihood that police /security guards or fire department can respond to an alarm signal before property is stolen or burnt.

Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a national testing facility for products and devices, rates safes and vault panels based on their ability to withstand an attack.

There are two basic types of safes:

- Fire safes (UL-listed and non-listed),
- Burglary safes (UL-listed and non-listed)
- Composite Safes ( Fire and Burglar)
 

Fire safes
As the name implies, fire safes only provide fire protection. Most fire safes can be opened with common mechanical tools in two minutes or less. Mechanical tools include hand tools such as chisels, screwdrivers, pliers and hammers, as well as picking tools, portable mechanical and electric tools and carbide drills, to list a few. Fire safes are designed to protect records and other valuable papers. They may be appropriate for jewelry with low values when other security measures compensate for the safe's burglary-resistance deficit.

UL-listed fire safes are classified in three rating categories:
A (four hours of fire protection),
B (two hours of fire protection) and
C (one hour of fire protection).
 

Let's consider the two categories of Burglary resistance Safes:

UL-listed, and non-UL listed.
A safe that is listed by UL has been tested and found to withstand physical attack using a specific complement of common mechanical tools (sometimes including cutting torches, depending on which product label UL is testing) for an established time period. While non-UL listed safes may be well constructed, no testing has been conducted by an objective third party to determine how long the safe can resist attack.

Composite safes offer a variety of combinations of Fire and Burglar resistency in one safe.

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