Prepare to protect: Operating and maintaining a tornado safe room

Andrew Herseth, Jennifer Goldsmith-Grinspoon and Pataya Scott

Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 2017, vol. 10, issue 4, 328-338

Abstract: Operating and maintaining a tornado safe room can be critical to the effective continuity of business operations because a firm’s most valuable asset is its people. This paper describes aspects of operations and maintenance (O&M) for existing tornado safe rooms as well as a few planning and design aspects that affect the ultimate operation of a safe room for situations where a safe room is planned, but not yet constructed. The information is based on several Federal Emergency Management Agency safe room publications that provide guidance on emergency management and operations, as well as the design and construction of tornado safe rooms.

Keywords: safe room; storm shelter; tornado; emergency planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M1 M10 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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