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Residential Tornado Shelters
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Homeowner Information
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Community Tornado Shelters
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Find a Community Tornado Shelter Provider
Useful Links & Information
Industry Professionals
NSSA Accredited Professional
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Membership Benefits
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
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