Risk Assessment and Disaster Plan Development Workshop

Join your fellow heritage professionals to ensure your site is fully prepared and ready for the next possible emergency. The Pro Football Hall of Fame, in conjunction with the Stark County Heritage Emergency Response Team (Stark-HERT), will be hosting a “Risk Assessment and Disaster Plan Development” Workshop on Tuesday, June 16, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for heritage site professionals. 

Conducting the workshop will be Tom Clareson, Senior Consultant for Digital & Preservation Services at Lyrasis—a nonprofit membership organization whose mission is to support enduring access to the world’s shared academic, scientific, and cultural heritage resources. Tom, who is a Northeast Ohio native, has served over 20 years at Lyrasis, consulting and teaching nationally and internationally on preservation, disaster preparedness, digitization, digital preservation, special collections/archives, funding, strategic planning, and advocacy for libraries, archives, and museums.

Attendees will gain the tools and resources needed to assess and mitigate risks, learn how to develop and update disaster preparedness plans, and understand how institutions can collaborate on disaster response efforts regionally. The workshop will include a walk-through of our host site to look at risks you can consider in your own building. If you have a disaster plan—old, new, or in need of updating—feel free to bring it to this workshop.

Registration can be completed via the "Get Tickets" button on this page. Please register by Monday, June 8. The registration fee is $50. Attendees have the option of adding on a boxed lunch to their order for $10. Additional lunch options are available at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.