UL-ULC Qualified Firestop Contractor Program

FCIA's Accreditation Committee worked with UL for three years to develop the UL and ULC Qualified Firestop Contractor Programs.  Launched at the 2007 FCIA Firestop Industry Conference, this program is gaining steam as a way to improve fire and life safety in buildings through firestopping installed by contractors with audit proven quality.  The program is owned and administered by Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.

Do you want your firm to become a UL-ULC Qualified Firestop Contractor or need UL CEU's?  Go to this FCIA page first : UL-ULC Qualified Firestop Contractor "How to get and stay UL Qualified' page .  Here are Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

UL also has a new eLearning Course on the Quality Management System Manual.  FCIA Members get a discount - email evie@FCIA.org for your discount code.

Building Owners and Managers, Fire Marshals, Building Officials, Specifiers - Learn why it makes sense to specify and use UL-ULC Qualified Firestop Contractors...check out the info to the right.Visit the UL-ULC Qualified Contractors Map to see company coverage areas and locations.


FCIA Member UL-ULC Qualified Firestop Contractors

#) Contractors with branches
*) Contractor that is a branch of another member

UL-ULC Qualified Firestop Contractor Program Info

The UL Qualified Firestop Contractor Program's objective is to give Specialty Firestop Contractors a credible 3rd party Quality Management System Program to set themselves apart, while offering specifiers, building owners and managers a quantifiable qualification of the firm.  The Management System audit verifies that the contractor does what they say in their quality manual, every day, as part of the company culture.  Special attention to how non-conformances are managed. 

The UL-ULC Qualified Firestop Contractor Program and the ASTM E 2174 & ASTM E 2393 Standards for the Inspection of Firestop Systems, are complimentary programs.  A contractor who has invested in the UL-ULC Program, inspected by a Consultant to the ASTM Standards, means quality contractors and quality installation. The inspection validates that the installation quality process is working.

The UL-ULC Qualified Firestop Program has been accepted nationwide by architects and engineers through programs like MasterSpec and other master specifications for projects worldwide.

To become qualified, the contractor firm appoints a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI).  To become a DRI the person must past the rigorous UL and or ULC firestop industry exam to become the key person in the firm to manage the firestopping quality management system process. The DRI Designation is not awarded the individual until the firestop contractor firm is Qualified by UL-ULC. The firestop firm qualification follows the company.

Once a DRI is in place, the contractor firm then authorizes and pays UL-ULC to audit the contracting firm's quality management system (procedures) as listed in their Managmenet System - Quality Manual to confirm that the firm's processes meet their own statements for Firestop Systems installation processes. A field audit of a jobsite is also part of the process, with a destructive test, performed to verify the management process works in the field.  Upon successful audit, the firm would be deemed 'qualified', by UL-ULC.

UL-ULC Qualification is only given those firms who have passed both the UL-ULC Firestop Exam and the Intial Facility and Procedure Audit Process. Follow up Audits are performed by UL-ULC yearly by UL-ULC Personnel. DRI's must retest or provide verification of CEU eligible Education sessions attended.  Testing and CEU's occurs at FCIA Conferences.