Emergency plan – Collections Trust

Resources Accreditation Organisational health Assessing and managing risk Emergency plan

‘Your museum must be able to respond effectively to emergency or disaster situations. This means having an emergency plan. It should cover all buildings and sites that house collections and services, and should include:

arrangements for staff and volunteers, visitors, collections and collections information

a risk assessment of threats

how you authorise, maintain, communicate, and test your emergency plan, and how you share it with your staff and volunteers, and the emergency services

how your museum works with the emergency services, and any other relevant emergency plans

a priority salvage list – a record of any priority collections you would save first in an emergency

when you’ll review your emergency plan’

(Accreditation standard, November 2018)

Pocket salvage guide

Resource

A concise and helpful guide in case of collections emergencies.

Part of: Emergency plan

Assess and manage risk in collections care

Resource

This resource, developed by Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service, SHARE Museums East and Collections Trust, provides an introduction to the assessment and management of risk in the context of the care of museum collections.

Part of: Collections care and conservation, Collections in lockdown, Emergency plan, Emergency planning for collections

Flood water ingress due to burst pipes

Resource

This case study explores how The Argory National Trust site managed a burst pipes and flood ingress emergency when, on 31 December 2010, a burst pipe in the attics flooded directly into the Archive room and spread to other areas of the house.

Part of: Emergency plan