Emergency Planning and Salvage Training

Trainer: Claire Fry ACR, Director, Spencer and Fry 

What will be covered?

Gain confidence in emergency planning and salvage for collections. 

This course will cover all aspects of emergency planning, including prevention measures, what makes a good emergency plan and how to protect and rescue collections. 

Practical sessions will give you the opportunity to get hands-on experience of salvage techniques. 

Who should attend?

Trustees, Managers, Beginners, Volunteers. Anyone with a responsibility for collections. 

Learning objectives 

• Understand why emergency planning is important 

• Have gained knowledge to help you respond to an emergency situation for your collection 

• Be able to update or write an emergency plan 

• Have skills to protect, pack and carry out basic first aid for collections 

Approximate session timetable

• 10.30am – 11.10am - Introductions and aims of the training  and introduction to emergency planning
• 11.10am – 11.30am - Prevention is better than cure  
• 11.30am – 11.45am - Break
• 11.45am – 1.15pm - Emergency plans , salvage equipment  and first aid treatment for historic objects  
• 1.15pm – 2pm - Lunch  
• 2pm - 3pm - Health and safety in salvage  and salvage exercise  
• 3pm - 3.15pm - Break
• 3.15pm - 4pm - Debrief from exercise, tabletop exercise  and questions and answers  

Please note: We require you to complete the full booking form in order to confirm your eligibility for the session. The main booking form questions will appear after you have been through the 'check out' process. If you do not complete this form we will be in contact and reserve the right to cancel your ticket if we do not receive a response.

MDSE is funded by Arts Council England (ACE) to support museums in the South East of England within ACE’s Accreditation scheme. The South East is defined as the local authority areas of:

• Bedfordshire (Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Luton Borough)
• Berkshire (Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor & Maidenhead and Wokingham)
• Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Essex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock
• Hertfordshire
• Kent and Medway
• Norfolk
• Oxfordshire
• Suffolk
• Surrey
• East Sussex and Brighton & Hove
• West Sussex

We prioritise places on our training programmes for museums which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation. ACE publishes the official lists of Accredited and Working Towards Accreditation museums on its website. Where possible we will make places available for museums which do not meet these criteria but the number of places will vary depending on the event format.

For full details of our programmes conditions, see our Terms and Conditions on our website

By booking a place on to a Museum Development South East training event, you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions:

• That you are from a South East museum which is in Arts Council England’s Museum Accreditation Scheme. Where this is not applicable you acknowledge that MDSE will facilitate your attendance if availability permits and that you or your organisation will pay any fees which may apply.
• It is a condition of receiving this ACE funded training that the online evaluation sent to the email address provided at the point of booking is completed by the specified deadline. This deadline is in the email notification unless a paper evaluation is specifically requested and submitted on the day of the training session.
• By booking a place you agree that you will make every endeavour to attend the event and you will give us at least 24 hours’ notice if you need to cancel your booking. If you repeatedly cancel your booking without sufficient notice you agree that we may exercise our right to remove you from future event bookings.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park, Bletchley, United Kingdom