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  • Home
  • About
    • Mission
    • History
    • Board & Committee Members
    • Industry Standards
    • Kiesling Award Winners
  • Consumers
    • Residential Tornado Shelters >
      • Find a Residential Tornado Shelter Provider
      • Homeowner Information
      • Financing & Rebate Programs
    • Community Tornado Shelters >
      • Find a Community Tornado Shelter Provider
    • Useful Links & Information
  • Industry Professionals
    • NSSA Accredited Professional
    • NSSA Certified Inspector
    • AP/CI Code of Conduct
    • Become A Member
    • Membership Benefits
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    • Resources & Educational Materials >
      • 2024 Conference Sessions
      • Educational Information
  • News
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​Membership Benefits

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Benefits of NSSA to Shelter Producers:

  • Reinforcement that you are “doing it right”
  • Industry standard that delineates quality essentials
  • Test procedures for verifying debris impact resistance
  • Quality verification by an independent third-party engineering firm to verify standard compliance
  • Identification and visibility as a producer of quality shelters through the NSSA seal program and web listing
  • Improved position with respect to liability issues through NSSA process for standards compliance verification

Benefits of NSSA to a Shelter Consumer:

  • Identity of shelter producers who provide quality-verified products
  • Labels on quality-verified products
  • ICC/NSSA standard that establishes quality criteria
  • Information and education via seminars, web pages, and response to inquiries
  • Checklists of important elements of shelter quality
  • Advocacy for incentive programs for shelter construction

Benefits of NSSA to a Policy Decision-Maker:

  • Quality verification of manufactured shelters or site-built shelters
  • Industry leaders available for guidance on mitigation strategies and policies
  • Involvement with International Code Council to develop a comprehensive shelter standard, ICC-500, available for building code adoption in 2007

Benefits of NSSA to a Policy Decision-Maker:

  • Quality essentials checklist
  • Tornado shelter quality standard
  • Educational programs to identify essentials of quality construction/installation
For membership grades and their descriptions, visit our Become A Member Page

SEE THE LINK TO OUR WHY CHOOSE NSSA BROCHURE BELOW:
  • Why NSSA TriFold 1 ​
  • Why NSSA TriFold 2
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National Storm Shelter Association
c/o Hannah Argueta
P.O. Box 54
Flora, IL  62839
1-618-599-7037 Or
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