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 [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> . ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).