New book on health and safety

New Publication:

    Health and Safety for Museum Professionals

The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic
Works (AIC) and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History
Collections (SPNHC) have joined forces on the ultimate reference
book for museum professionals: Health and Safety for Museum
Professionals, edited by Catharine Hawks, Michael McCann, Kathryn
Makos, Lisa Goldberg, David Hinkamp, Dennis Ertel, and Patricia
Silence.

This comprehensive volume is treated in three parts:

    Part 1:     Principles of Safety and Health - fire protection,
                occupational hazards, and waste management.

    Part 2:     Specific Hazards (particulates, chemical hazards,
                and toxins, physical, mechanical, and electrical
                hazards, and radiation).

    Part 3:     Museum Work (facilities management, emergency
                salvage, collections management, fieldwork,
                conservation and restoration, and exhibit protection
                and maintenance).

The nineteen chapters were written by top specialists in their
field.

This hardcover book is nearly 650 pages.

Available from

    <URL:http://www.universityproducts.com>

Susan Butts, Ph.D.
Senior Collections Manager, Division of Invertebrate Paleontology
Yale Peabody Museum
170 Whitney Avenue
PO Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118


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