ANSI Z97.1 & Safety Glazing Material Markings
For a change, look at glass (or plastic), not through it. In small lettering, you might see some letters and numbers. Markings like “ANSI Z97.1-2015”…
ASTM F1148-22: Home Playground Equipment Safety Standard
For practically any child, visiting a playground is a treat, but having a playground back home is a blessing. However, the luxury of home equipment…
NSF/ANSI Drinking Water Treatment Standards
Water is, of course, the liquid molecule that we need to sustain life. Any kind of contaminant in water can be detrimental to granting this…
ANSI/ESD S20.20-2021: Protection of Electrical and Electronic Parts
There’s electricity within you. The human body, at rest, contains around 100 volts. Our bodies are not alone in generating a charge. In manufacturing and…
Uniform Plumbing Code (IAPMO/ANSI UPC 1-2021)
If extraterrestrials landed on Earth, across homes, they would find furniture designed for similar purposes, lights in typical placements, an affinity for screens, and, of…
ANSI/ASHRAE 103-2022: AFUE Testing of Residential Furnaces & Boilers
Most homes in the United States are heated with either furnaces, systems that heat air and distribute it throughout the house, or boilers, appliances with…
Fitness-For-Service: API 579/ASME FFS-1-2021
What is Fitness-For-Service? Standards for pressurized equipment, such as those developed and published by the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Society of Mechanical…
Preventing Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)
What is Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)? When we walk across a carpeted floor and touch a doorknob, we feel a startling shock. This is one of…
ANSI/ESD S1.1-2021: Standard for Wrist Straps
The power of lightning is in your hands. Not the hands of Thor or Zeus or whatever lightning-casting being—but yours! The average human body, at…