N7: Aggregating Museum Exposure Monitoring Results
Wed, 6/3: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
Education Sessions
Education Sessions
Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Convention Center
Room: 395
CM Credit Hours: 1
Description
The preservation, research and exhibit of collection objects and specimens pose unique hazards, such as arsenic, formaldehyde, silica, toxic pigments, asbestos, solvents, and radiation. Industrial hygienists may not be aware that these work tasks occur within their scope of practice: campus teaching collections, libraries/archives, military bases, industry historical holdings, county museums, state art galleries. Collections care professionals are specialists with highly variable work schedules, making it difficult to monitor exposures frequently enough to characterize the distribution statistics.
To fill the knowledge gap, AIHA Museum and Cultural Heritage Industry Working Group, with the Exposure Assessment Strategies Committee, issued a call for all available museum data regarding personal exposures in collections care, facility maintenance and construction activities. Building on the efforts of others such as the Industrial Hygiene Exposure Risk Assessment by Market Segment, Data Analytics Whitepaper, this session explores the results of data solicitation, data cleaning and preliminary analysis of the received data sets. The aggregated museum-industry data analysis provides industrial hygienists, cultural heritage employers, and their professional organizations with baseline data on the effectiveness of task-specific risk controls and priorities for additional monitoring of agents or tasks.
To fill the knowledge gap, AIHA Museum and Cultural Heritage Industry Working Group, with the Exposure Assessment Strategies Committee, issued a call for all available museum data regarding personal exposures in collections care, facility maintenance and construction activities. Building on the efforts of others such as the Industrial Hygiene Exposure Risk Assessment by Market Segment, Data Analytics Whitepaper, this session explores the results of data solicitation, data cleaning and preliminary analysis of the received data sets. The aggregated museum-industry data analysis provides industrial hygienists, cultural heritage employers, and their professional organizations with baseline data on the effectiveness of task-specific risk controls and priorities for additional monitoring of agents or tasks.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion, the participant will be able to:
• View baseline measurement profiles to anticipate and recognize the hazards they may need to manage.
• Outline evaluation efforts and support recommendations for appropriate controls.
• Apply appropriate statistical methods in analysis and interpretation of aggregated exposure data across an industry as the manner of confirming exposure profiles.
• View baseline measurement profiles to anticipate and recognize the hazards they may need to manage.
• Outline evaluation efforts and support recommendations for appropriate controls.
• Apply appropriate statistical methods in analysis and interpretation of aggregated exposure data across an industry as the manner of confirming exposure profiles.
Content Level
Intermediate
Core Competencies
Exposure Assessment
IH/OH Program Management
Risk Communication
Keywords
Consulting
Exposure Assessment
Hazard Communication
Risk assessment and management
Session Availability
In-person
OnDemand
Targeted Audience
Professional
Transfer of Knowledge
Case Studies
Practical Application