Safety and Cultural Heritage Summit
Preserving Our Heritage and Protecting Our Health
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
McEvoy Auditorium
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington DC
PRESENTERS FOR 2019 SAFETY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE SUMMIT
Podium Presentations
Silica Dust Concerns Among Museum and Conservation Managers and Professionals
David F. Goldsmith, PhD, Georgetown and George Washington Universities, Washington DC, Thomas M. Galassi, MPH, CIH
Toxins Within Collections
Jim Fuller, PharmD, MA Candidate Museum Studies Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI); Sarah M. Halter, MA, Executive Director, Indiana Medical History Museum
Taking the Lead in Lead Safety: Mitigating Lead Exposure in Stained Glass Conservation
Ariana Makau, President & Principal Conservator of Nzilani Glass Conservation, MA Stained Glass Conservation RCA, London, AIC-PA; Karen Gunderson, MPH, CIH, CHMM, Consulting Industrial Hygienist State Fund Compensation Insurance
Caution--Do Not Touch: Solutions to Tracking Pesticides on Native American Objects
Alexander “Lexi” Echelman, MA
Wonder Twins – Activate! Collaboration between PRICE and OSHEM
Samantha Snell, AIC-Associate, Collections Management Specialist, PRICE Chair, National Collections Program, Smithsonian Institution; Michael Kilby, P.E., Associate Director for Fire Protection, Office of Safety, Health and Environmental Management, Smithsonian Institution
Avoiding Major Fire Losses at Museums and Cultural Institutions
Joshua Stewart, PE, Fire Protection Engineer, Smithsonian Institution
Revitalizing and Transforming a National Treasure: Planning for Safety during the National Air and Space Museum Renovation
Matthew Gross, Safety and Health Specialist, National Air and Space Museum
Lightning Round Presentations
Modernizing Our Vertebrate Specimen Preparation Safety Manuals
Cailin Meyer, Master of Arts, Master of Science
Managing Mental Health in Cultural Heritage Emergency Response: A Safety Approach for Operational Resilience
Rebecca Kennedy, AIC-PA, Collections Manager, Curae Collections Care LLC; Nora Lockshin, AIC-PA, Senior Conservator, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
The Poison Book Project
Melissa Tedone, Associate Conservator/Lab Head for Books & Library Materials, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library and Affiliated Associate Professor, Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation; Layla Huff; Sara Leonowitz, Phillip De Paola, Meghan Abercrombie, Rosie Grayburn, Emily Guthrie
The Use of Low-Cost Sensors to Measure Mercury Vapor from Tin-Mercury Amalgam Mirrors
Melissa King, Rosie Grayburn, Joelle Wickens, Calos Diego Lima de Albuquerque, Kevin Telmer, Alexandre Brolo
Total Worker Health for the Museum and Cultural Heritage Environment
Kate McPhaul, Baldeep Rai, Morgan Young-Spiers, Anne McDonough
Navigating Hidden Hazards in Collections: Emotional, Physical, and Chemical
Steven Pickman, AIC-PA, Objects Conservator, Steven Pickman Objects Conservation LLC; Kate McPhaul, PhD, MPH, RN, COHN-S, Manager, Occupational Health Services Clinics, Smithsonian Institution; Miriam Doutriaux, Collections Manager, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Grant Czubinski, Registrar, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution