Workshop on risk management

Workshop

Israel Society for the Conservation and Preservation of Cultural
    Property (ISCPCP)
Hebrew University - Givat Ram Campus
Jerusalem
Monday - Tuesday, January 25-26, 2015

On Monday - Tuesday January 25-26, 2015 the Israel Society for the
Conservation and Preservation of Cultural Property (ISCPCP) is
sponsoring a 2-day workshop on assessing and managing risks to
collections, with R. Robert Waller (Protect Heritage Corp.  under
license from Canadian Museum of Nature) at the Hebrew University,
Givat Ram Campus, Jerusalem, Israel.

Today, preventive conservation has become a leading theme in all
fields of cultural property.  Despite the best intentions,
professionals and institutions dealing with the preservation of
cultural property may apply unrealistic standards, guidelines or
lists of best practice, with no clear sense of priority, or of
realistic expected benefits.  With limited resources, decision
makers are usually confronted with difficult choices in planning
conservation strategies.  Since 2005, leading professionals in the
field such as Rob Waller, have worked on developing and
disseminating the risk management approach for cultural heritage.
This risk management approach, which informs and guides decision
makers in many other fields, offers a sound methodology to
incorporate the most recent preservation knowledge into current
practice.  It allows an integrated view of all expected damages and
loss to cultural property, and of their mitigation, thus providing a
useful tool for the design of more efficient conservation
strategies.  Preservation requirements and priorities will no longer
be seen as overhead costs but as sound strategic investments.
Participants learn to determine their preventive conservation
priorities and how best to invest their limited funds.

The objective of this non-technical workshop is to demonstrate to
participants a method of assessing and managing risks to collections
based on the award winning Cultural Property Risk Analysis Model
(CPRAM).

Participants will learn to:

    Identify all the risks to which collections are exposed, which
    agents of deterioration are responsible and how risks differ

    Assess the relative importance of risks

    Identify means of controlling risks using different methods
    applied at different levels and

    Develop risk mitigation strategies and evaluate their costs,
    risks and benefits in order to choose the most valuable option
    in a given context

Course methodology: The workshop is a highly interactive training
session.  It includes both theory and tightly integrated practical
components in which the participants play an important part.
Information is gained through lectures, demonstrations,
brainstorming in small groups, assembling of ideas, presentation and
discussion.  The teaching approach fosters team-building and mutual
understanding.  Participants are provided with various learning
tools including the workshop manual which contains the complete
workshop content, exercises, references, copies of key reference
papers, and a glossary of terms.

Audience: The 2-day workshop is designed for a maximum of 35
participants.  Instruction will be in English.  The course is open
to:

    Directors
    Managers
    Administrators
    Curators
    Collection managers
    Researchers
    Conservators
    Preparators
    Volunteers

Workshop content

Part One - Assessing Risks to Collections

    Identify all risks to collections and the agents of
    deterioration

    Identify the types of risk according to their frequency and
    severity

    Recognise the parameters for estimating risks: fraction
    susceptible, loss in value, extent, probability

    Calculate magnitudes of risk

Part Two - Managing Risks to Collections

    Identify methods of controlling risks

    Identify levels for applying the methods of controlling risks

    Develop mitigation strategies

    Evaluate the relative costs, risks and benefits of mitigation
    strategies

For fees and registration details please send an email to the Israel
Society for the Conservation and Preservation of Cultural Property

    <URL:http://iscpcp<-at->hotmail<.>com>

Instruction and course materials will be in English.


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