By Suzanne Davis & Caroline Roberts
Autumn is in the air. Students are back on campus and we’re working to keep things safe and up to date in the Conservation Lab. Every September we perform an annual review of the lab’s safety protocols, things like our chemical hygiene plan and standard operating procedures (now even more exciting, thanks to COVID-19). We’ve also got lots of training updates going on this month: an ethics and research practice refresher for Suzanne, emergency operations training for both of us, and — special to us at the Kelsey Museum — object handling training! Yes, every practitioner working with Kelsey Museum objects (including us) does a little refresher on safely handling our precious ancient artifacts. All part of keeping it real (and compliant) here at the Kelsey.
