ICRC report of the meeting of experts held in Geneva in 2002 (226pp)
Informe editado por el Getty con cinco ensayos sobre métodos de evaluación del patrimonio cultural (125pp)
In this document, Allan Lavell tries to define and clarify those concepts related to Risk Management and the differences between them.
The method presented in this analysis provides a systematic approach that is accessible to the different professional levels that require fire risk assessment for fire risk management decisions.
This note discusses critical issues to consider when upgrading and installing fire protection systems in historic buildings, specifically in historic house museums.
This article describes an attempt by the Canadian Museum of Nature to assess the risks faced by its collections. Ideally, professionals in preventive conservation could quantify all the risks associated with a collection and determine the most cost-effective means to reduce the overall risk. However, currently, there is a lack of necessary information to make precise estimates of many risks. Nevertheless, simply engaging a group of collection care staff in this exercise yields several valuable outcomes.The staff becomes aware of the variety of risks affecting the collections. For certain risks, low-cost or cost-free methods to mitigate them can be immediately identified. Conservation efforts can use information on the uncertainties of estimates to develop improved methods for documenting damage and can devise research plans that address prioritized issues. Finally, although the information obtained might have limited precision, it is consistent and comparable across various collections. This allows managers to make informed decisions regarding resource allocation for preventive conservation.