Hybrid Heritage Engineering Network Meeting

Stationary steam engine restoration and management, and health & safety Please note this is a hybrid event, so you can join in person or online. Please choose the correct ticket to reflect how you wish to attend. What will be covered? Staff from the Forncett Steam Museum will describe the work of the museum and how they manage a unique collection of stationary steam engines. Ian Reed will outline the use of generic risk assessments. Terry Bendall will describe how the Leighton Buzzard Railway Museum is managing the implementation of a formal improvement notice issue by the Office of Road and Rail. Learning objectives Awareness raising of issues involved in the restoration of stationary steam engines. Awareness of ways in which generic risk assessments can be used to manage health and safety. Awareness of strategies for implementing an improvement notice. Who should attend? The meeting is arranged by the Heritage Engineering Network which is a network group in East Anglia but the meeting is open to all museums in the MDSE region. Travel The museum has on site parking. The nearest stations are Diss and Norwich, but there is no direct public transport to the site. Accessibility To help us ensure you get the most out of the session, you will be asked to email us with any access requirements you may have when you complete your order form. Please see the list of examples of adjustments we can make. This list is not exhaustive and we would be happy to accommodate other requirements where possible, please email us to discuss. Eligibility 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 Accreditationmuseums 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. London tickets MDSE is working with Museum Development London (MDL) to deliver some of our training and development programmes. If you are working or volunteering for a museum in London you are eligible to attend this session. Terms & Conditions: 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.