Workshop on risk assessment and management

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Assessing and Managing Risks to Your Collections
Interactive Training Workshop
CMA Annual Conference
June 9-10, 1997
Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa

The Workshop: This 2-day non-technical workshop has been designed
for directors, managers, administrators, curators, collection
managers, researchers, conservators, preparators, volunteers, indeed
any stakeholder in collection preservation.  It will highlight a
methodology developed by the Canadian Museum of Nature which gives a
global framework for establishing priorities in the area of
preventive conservation.  The methodology is based on risk
assessment processes and risk management principles applied in
business and industry.

During the workshop, participants will learn how to:

    *   identify all agents of deterioration,

    *   identify risk types,

    *   estimate magnitudes of risks,

    *   rank their relative importance,

    *   mitigate risks, and

    *   evaluate the relative costs, benefits and collateral risks
        of implementing the proposed mitigation measures.

The workshop will be presented by Robert Waller (Chief,
Conservation) and Sylvie Marcil (Senior Conservator) of the Canadian
Museum of Nature, at its Victoria Memorial Museum Building location,
McLeod at Metcalfe St., Ottawa.

Registration Information: Registration is limited to 60
participants.  Final deadline for registration is May 10, 1997.
More details can be obtained from

    Wilda Corcoran
    613-566-4771
    566-4244
    Fax: 613-364-4021
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