Course on health and safety

How to Stay Safe and Healthy in a 'Green' Studio:
Concerns and Solutions while Caring for our Cultural Heritage
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
March 30 - April 1 2010

Restauratoren Nederland, the National Dutch Association for
Conservation, is offering a 3-day course on Safety in the
Studio/Laboratory

The course will be held in English at the end of March 2010 in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Conservators/restorers employ hazardous materials and processes
unlike those in any other industry. Instead of modifying precautions
designed for common situations, this course is designed to provide
sufficient training about safety regulations, chemicals, toxicology,
and air pollutants for participants to be able to make well-informed
choices about ventilation systems, protective equipment and
precautionary strategies. After 30 years of training and
architectural planning, occupational hygienist Monona Rossol
believes this is simpler and a lot more fun than it sounds.
Industrial hygienist, Frank Brekelmans will give an overview of
Dutch safety regulations on the first day and in the workshop on the
last afternoon, Erich Jelen and Nico Hijman will show you how we can
deal with future problems by learning from the past. For details
concerning the program and for the application form please see:

    <URL:http://www.conserveer.nl/>

Where:

    Reinwardt Academie
    Dapperstraat 315
    1093 BS Amsterdam
    The Netherlands
    <URL:http://www.reinwardtacademie.nl>

Restauratoren Nederland is offering this first course of the
Education Committee for its members and for a wider audience of
related professionals (artists and scientists, etc.) at a heavily
reduced price to celebrate the occasion and because work safety is
important for us all. The Board of the organization would also like
to stimulate non-members to become members, encouraging them in this
way to follow the course at the member's price.

Course fees:

    Non-members: 245 euro
    Please submit the application form before 15 March, 2010

    Members: 95 euro
    Please submit the application form before 25 February, 2010

To apply: Send your completed application form

    <URL:http://www.conserveer.nl/>

to info<-at->restauratoren<.>nl

Membership costs RN:

    Restorer-Conservator member: 140 euro

        (note: a transitional ruling ('grandfather clause') can be
        used to apply for this category during 2010; as of 2011, all
        applicants must have completed a five year University
        training program in conservation in accordance with the
        Association's ECCO membership)

    Associated member: 95 euro
    Student member: first year free

The National Dutch Association, Restauratoren Nederland, was
established on 1 July 2005 through the fusion of four Dutch
Conservation Associations (VAR, TRON, VeRes and IIC-NL). In this
way, the new Association is the forum for conservators in all
disciplines and for a wider group of related professionals
(conservation technicians, scientists, art historians, art
handlers...). Restauratoren Nederland represents her members working
in both public and private sectors in Holland.
The Association supports the interests of its professionals while
aiming to care for cultural heritage in general. The Board wishes to
advance the expertise of its members and to stimulate the
professionalization of the sector by supporting (among others) the
Education Committee to offer such courses for its more than 500
members. The commitment to continuing education augments the recent
admission of the first members to the Restorer-Conservator
membership category.

Gwen M. Tauber
Education Committee
Restauratoren Nederland
Gwen Tauber
Senior Painting Conservator
Conservation and Restoration Dept.
The Rijksmuseum
Postbus 74888
1070DN Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 674 72 89
Fax: +31 20 674 00 01


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