The Washington Conservation Guild, the Potomac Section of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, and the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Safety, Health & Environmental Management present a Professional Development Seminar:
Control of Health and Safety Hazards in Museums and Collection Care
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Smithsonian American Art Museum, McEvoy Auditorium
9:00 – 9:30 am Coffee and Registration Enter the museum at 8th and G Street NW, Washington DC. Doors open at 9:00 AM. (All other doors will be locked at this time)
9:30 am Program begins – see details below
5:00-7:00 pm Stay to network in Courtyard and enjoy the Galleries
Registration cost is $60 and includes lunch
Register at: http://www.potomacaiha.org/
Registration will close COB Friday November 4, 2016.
There is NO ONSITE registration, so you must pre-register
Program includes…
Special Guest Speakers on AIHA and AIC Collaboration
Daniel H. Anna, PhD, CIH, CSP; past President, American Industrial Hygiene Association
Eryl Wentworth, Executive Director, American Institute for Conservation
Collaborative presentations by Health, Safety, Fire Protection, and Conservation Professionals
Lead and Asbestos Issues with the National Museum of African American History and Culture Collections and Artifacts
Hayes C. Robinson, III, M.S., Associate Director for Environmental Management, Smithsonian Institution, Office of Safety, Health & Environmental Management (OSHEM); Sophia Kapranos, Industrial Hygienist, OSHEM.
Fluid Collections Storage at the Smithsonian
Michael Kilby, P.E., Associate Director for Fire Protection, Smithsonian OSHEM; Joshua Stewart, P.E., Fire Protection Engineer, OSHEM.
Moving Beyond “Is it Mold?”
Nora Lockshin, PA-AIC, Senior Conservator, Smithsonian Institution Archives; Sophia Kapranos, Industrial Hygienist, Smithsonian OSHEM.
Occupational and Environmental Risk Assessment of Elemental Mercury at the Edison National Historic Site in West Orange, NJ
Bernard L. Fontaine, Jr., CIH, CSP, FAIHA; Managing Partner, The Windsor Consulting Group, Inc.
OSHA: Small Business Resources
Bruce A. Love, MBA, Program Analyst, Office of Small Business Assistance, Directorate of Cooperative and State Programs, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Washington, DC.
Safe Access: Exposure Assessment of Residual Legacy Pesticides on Anthropology Collections
Michele Austin-Dennehy, Contract Conservator, Anthropology Conservation Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Institution; Kathryn Makos, CIH, Research Collaborator, NMNH; (Ret) Smithsonian OSHEM
New Uses of New and Old Technologies: Marvelseal, Lugol’s Iodine, and Scavengers for Mercury Mitigation in a Mineral Collection
Leslie J. Hale, National Rock and Ore Collections Manager, Dept. of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Institution; Catharine Hawks, AIC-PA, IIC-Fellow, Conservator, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution; Kathryn Makos, CIH, Research Collaborator NMNH, (Ret) Smithsonian OSHEM