[NHCOLL-L:3812] Fwd: Assessing and Managing Risks to Your Collections Workshop Announcement

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 From: LSmyk at mus-nature.ca
To: charlie_costain at pch.gc.ca,  David_Grattan at pch.gc.ca, 
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Sent: 4/4/2008  12:06:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Assessing and Managing Risks to  Your Collections Workshop Announcement



 
Assessing and Managing Risks to  Your Collections 
An Interactive Training Workshop   
The Canadian Museum of Nature will be  offering an interactive training 
workshop on Assessing and Managing Risks to  Your Collections. The workshop is open 
to anyone with a professional interest  in collection preservation.  
Dates and  Location 
The Workshop will take place in Ottawa  October 15-17th, 2008. The specific 
location is yet to be  determined.  
Protecting Our  Heritage 
Museum collections continue to grow, and their  maintenance is increasingly 
costly. These collections often contain  irreplaceable objects and represent 
centuries of painstaking work and great  investment. Every institution needs 
cost-effective preventive conservation to  protect collections for generations to 
come. It is critical to establish  priorities of action, to ensure the care 
and safekeeping of collections.   
The Workshop 
This three-day, interactive, non-technical workshop is  designed for all 
stakeholders in collection preservation. It introduces a  methodology based on the 
Cultural Property Risk Analysis Model (CPRAM),  developed by the Canadian 
Museum of Nature. This tested and  proven model gives a global framework for 
establishing priorities in the area  of preventive conservation. The methodology 
is based on current risk  assessment processes and risk management principles 
used in business and  industry.  
During the 3-day workshop, participants will learn how  to:  
    *   identify all agents of deterioration;  
    *   identify risk types;  
    *   describe specific risks;  
    *   estimate magnitudes of risks;  
    *   rank their relative importance;  
    *   mitigate risks;  
    *   evaluate the relative costs, benefits and collateral  risks of 
implementing the proposed mitigation measures;  
    *   apply the method in a museum situation (one day is  on-site 
practice). 
Participants will receive a workshop manual, which  contains the complete 
course content, exercises, references and a glossary of  terms.  Each Participant 
will also receive an Excel Risk Assessment  Worksheet designed to assist in 
the completion of a comprehensive collection  risk assessment.   
Key Benefits for Your Staff and  Institutions 
This workshop will enable anyone involved with  collections to:  
    *   compare different risks among different collections;   
    *   prioritize and identify preventive conservation  issues and 
mitigation measures;  
    *   develop cost-effective plans to reduce overall  risks;  
    *   consider all issues related to proposed mitigation  strategies from 
an institutional perspective;  
    *   clearly communicate preventive conservation issues,  requirements, 
and their relative importance to other staff and to management  and funding 
bodies;  
    *   work in teams within their own institution;   
    *   convince management and funding bodies of the  importance of the 
issues and of the necessity to invest in preventive  measures. 
Workshop  Presenter 
This workshop will be presented by Dr.  Robert Waller, (Chief, Conservation) 
and staff of The Canadian  Museum of Nature’s Conservation Section. 
We have presented the risk assessment approach or  delivered workshops in: 
Amsterdam, Birmingham, Dallas, Halifax,  Gainesville, Gothenburg, Hong Kong, 
Leicester, London, Montréal, New Orleans,  New York, Ottawa, Portland, Rio de 
Janeiro, St. Louis, Sydney, Stockholm, The  Hague, Victoria, Washington, 
Wellington, Winnipeg and Worcester.  
For registration or more information please  contact: 
Laura  Smyk
Conservation  Technician
Canadian  Museum of  Nature
P.O.  Box  3443, Stn  D
Ottawa,  ON
K1P  1P4 
Tel.:  (613)566-4236
Fax: (613)364-4027
lsmyk_ at mus-nature.ca_ (mailto:rwaller at mus-nature.ca)   
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