[Nhcoll-l] Abstracts Due Aug 1 Safety & Cultural Heritage Summit

[Kathryn Makos]

Abstracts Due Aug 1 for the 

2023 Safety and Cultural Heritage Summit: 

Preserving Our Heritage and Protecting Our Health 

Professional Development Seminar 

 

The Potomac Section of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the
Washington Conservation Guild, the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of
Safety, Health, and Environmental Management (OSHEM), and the Smithsonian
National Collections Program will once again collaborate with the Lunder
Conservation Center to host a Safety and Cultural Heritage Summit.  

 

Friday, 27 October 2023 Hybrid Event: In-Person and Streamed On-line 

 

We are now accepting abstracts focusing on controlling health and safety
risks from preparing, treating, managing, and exhibiting artistic, historic,
and natural science collections as well as abating structural hazards and
responding to disasters impacting collections, including challenges of the
pandemic. We welcome case studies and action plans, and we encourage joint
presentations by conservators, collections care professionals, AND health &
safety professionals! 

 

Topics and themes for consideration include but are not limited to:  

 

*	Gallery Exhibits: Installation and management safety
challenges--working at heights or outdoors; with heavy, large, or hazardous
objects; with touchable/interactive exhibits.
*	Hazardous Collections: Exposure determinations and risk controls

*	Conservation Laboratories and Treatments: safe work policies for
object- and material-specific hazards.   
*	Emergency preparedness and response in collections, with action
steps. 
*	Maximizing sustainability without compromising safety.
*	Scalable solutions for small/large institutions or private
practices, with small or large budgets. 
*	NAGPRA Due Diligence: Contaminant Testing, Reporting and Disclosure
Policies

 

Presenters have 3 submission options:

1.    A podium presentation of 20 minutes, with 5-10 minutes for questions.
(30 min. max) 

2.    A lightning round presentation of 5 minutes.  Q&A segment may follow
as a group.

3.    A 60- or 90-minute panel with multiple speakers; either time-frame
must allow for 15 minutes for speaker/audience discussion. Abstracts must
include names of moderator and panelists.

Posters will be accepted only if content can be reduced to a readable 8½ x
11inch or folded 11 x 17 inch sheet handout. There is no available space at
the venue for mounted poster presentations.

Abstracts must specify: your submission preference, a provisional title,
names and contact information for each submitter, panelist(s) & moderator,
and not exceed 400 words. Presentations will be delivered in person. 

Questions are welcome! Please send your presentation abstracts to 

summit-abstracts at washingtonconservationguild.org
<mailto:summit-abstracts at washingtonconservationguild.org>  by close of
business on Tuesday, 1 August 2023.

 

 

Kathryn Makos, MPH CIH 

(Retired:Smithsonian Institution)

 

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