We Teach NFPA Compliancy!
The
Insurance Services Office does not grade a fire department on how it performs during
an actual event. They are auditing our compliancy of
NFPA and AWWA. The grade your department earns will be
judged through the usage of the "Fire Suppression Rate Schedule". This schedule inspects a
department's
integrity by auditing the inventory of equipment
carried, records of
testing and training, communications, pre-fire plans, and
data collected from available
water supplies for fire suppression.
Your
department must maintain complete and proper records or
your ISO®
fire suppression rating score will be
poor. A poor score would have a negative effect on your community
because the property owners would be charged substantially higher insurance premiums than
are necessary. "Excellent record keeping" is just as important
as an "excellent response".
Changes are usually more affordable and attainable than you might
think.
You
need to seek help!
Tax Preparers have a special
niche in life. They review your financial records to make sure you receive all the deductions that
are legal and creditable, which means more
savings to you. The IRS has sites to assist you during the tax
preparation process, but it is not tailored to fit your
personal financial needs. Using these sites, you are
faced with self interpretation which means you must
interrupt the laws and reporting techniques applicable.
If your interpretation is wrong, you lose. In the ISO
game, a miss-interpretation could cost your community
hundreds of thousands of dollars each year.
The National Fire Services Office works directly with,
and for, your agency. We develop programs that will help
your agency maximize ISO scores. We do not teach the
test, we teach changes of life styles. We train your
agency to be more NFPA and AWWA compliant. It is only
fair that for insurance companies to reduce our
premiums costs, we give them a better and tighter
run department. These improvements can enhance fire
response delivery far into the future.
On average, less than 1% of a
community's population will need fire services each year,
but over 87% of the population will purchase homeowner's or
commercial insurance. The fire
department directly influences the cost of these
policies. A fire department is the
"Insurance Rate Keeper" for
the community.
The Insurance Services Office has never
provided information about how the actual calculations
are applied during an inspection for all areas graded. The Insurance Services Office
is the designer, and tester, of the PPC inspection
process. The Insurance Services Office
cannot be the teacher of the test. If they were, the test
would have little value.
As a fire department leader, you are expected to know how to interpret the requirements
of NFPA and AWWA. It is unrealistic for a community to
expect your local fire chief to have a complete knowledge
of all NFPA and AWWA subject areas. Not only would
the fire chief be required to have an understanding of
these requirements, but they must also have the most current information available.
Maintaining this current information
could take hundreds of hours in research and could cost
many thousands of dollars in
yearly subscriptions charges alone.
We provide a preparation service that
assists fire departments with these needed interpretations. We deal
with NFPA, AWWA, and ISO® matters every day. You need
someone on your side to help guide you through this
complicated process. We assist your department by collecting
the needed information and give explanations of
needed improvements that can lead to a better score when
completed. Remember, a lower
score can save your community money. We
have also found that
once a fire department truly understands the role it must
play concerning these Insurance Services Office matters, the
more well rounded the department becomes. Our consultants are looking for long term results.
The Insurance Services Office is
only wanting us to be the best that we can be!
It's a journey worth taking. Are
you up to it?
We
own and operate an aviation fleet that can take us
anywhere in the United States at your schedule. During the data collection
process, we commonly assist communities by providing
aerial views of lakes, streams, and ponds. This collected
data can be used to find needed
water sources. Most of our consultants are pilots.
Robinson -- R22
We custom design each program to
fit your community needs. Our professionals work with your
agency in multiple ways. Your policy makers decide how
much we help. For many fire departments we provide a
"Start to Finish" package that provides a consultant to assist during
the entire process, including the final inspection. This
greatly reduces stress for your agency and the Insurance
Services Office inspector. We can make your inspection
day very pleasant and successful.
We are always
just
a call away!
Piper
Turbo Arrow IV
Office
(912) 857-6700
Duty
Line (912) 656-6703
Fax 912-857-6710
Consultants are on duty 7 days a week
National Home Office
Florida District Office
1622 Airport Road Mike Yarbrough -
State Manager
Sylvania, Georgia 30467
(904) 745-0045
Skip@NFSO.us
Mike@NFSO.us
New
York District Office
John Clauson - State Manager
John@NFSO.us
(845)-726-3707
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Inc. ("ISO®") or any subsidiary or affiliate of ISO®."
