Seven Steps to Successfully Managing Hazards in Collections

Seven Steps to Successfully Managing Hazards in Collections

Trainer: Larry Carr

Suitable for: Staff, trustees and volunteers responsible for managing collections

Identifying hazards in collections, assessing them, and managing their risks doesn’t have to be complicated. This online safety training will navigate participants through a series of seven steps to successfully managing hazards in their collections.

From assigning responsibilities, to identifying and prioritising areas of concern, to assessing the risks, to writing an action plan and implementing it, to recording what has been done, and reviewing the risks. Participants will learn about a sustained and structured approach to the management of hazards in collections.

Please note, this session is about procedures to successfully manage hazards in collections and is not hazard recognition and awareness training.

Before the session:

• It would be useful for participants to come with some prior knowledge of hazards in museum collections. The Hazards in Collections etool is a useful resource to look at beforehand.

About the trainer:

Larry Carr is one of the UK’s authorities in the subject of health hazards found in object collections. He is a health and safety professional with more than a decade of experience in the museums sector including the Science Museum, British Museum and other UK National Museums.

Location: Online via Zoom

Duration: 3 hours

Joining details will be sent out once you have registered for the event.

Terms & Conditions:

For full details of our programmes conditions, see our Terms & Conditions on our website 

By booking a place on to SHARE Museums East Training Programme, you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions:

• That you are from an East of England museum which is in Arts Council England’s Museum Accreditation Scheme. Where this is not applicable you acknowledge that SHARE will facilitate your attendance if availability permits and that your organisation will pay any fees which may apply.
• It is a condition of receiving this ACE funded training that the online evaluation sent to the email address provided at the point of booking is completed by the specified deadline. This deadline is in the email notification unless a paper evaluation is specifically requested and submitted on the day of the training session.
• By booking a place you agree that you are booking as a representative of your organisation and should you cancel your booking without sufficient notice your organisation is responsible for paying the late cancellation fee of £50.