Save Your Stuff in the Workplace: How to Protect & Save Employee Possessions, Collectables, Memorabilia, Artwork and other Corporate Assets - Softcover

Haskins, Scott M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1614486077 ISBN 13: 9781614486077

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Learn How To Store, Protect and Preserve All Your Stuff in Your Workplace.
Save Your Stuff in the Workplace is your constant reference on protecting and saving all your items at your office.
Save Your Stuff in the Workplace gives you all the knowledge and resources you need to protect your papers, photos, letters, journals, figurines, paintings, heirlooms and collectables. Learn how to protect them from falling apart, damage, mishaps at home, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornados, severe winter storms and more. But wait! That’s not all! Learn how to if there is a disaster, to save wet papers, photos and books. Find out what to do if a picture frame gets bashed, what to use if your porcelains are knocked off the shelf and how to get the burnt smell out of your books after a fire. But wait! That’s not all!
You will find complete lists of all the supplies you need and where to buy them. Find out where and how to make copies of documents and photos for archiving and for your relative’s scrapbook. Explore details lists to help you get personally prepared for emergencies. Discover the facts on filing insurance claims and how to find a professional conservator (restorer) when and if you need one. Find complete lists of references and emergency phone numbers you will need to call for assistance.

About this title

About the Author

Scott M. Haskins has worked in the US and Europe as a professional art conservator since 1975. In addition, Scott, for many years, was an adult education teacher on how to preserve your treasured family history items. He works with the general public, historical societies, museums, corporations, private collectors, art galleries, city, state and federal governments and MOST IMPORTANT, he has helped tens of thousands of people, just like you, to save their “stuff.”
He is also an expert witness in the Los Angeles Supreme Court system and on the part of the federal government regarding public art issues. He has done consultation work for a long list of notable organizations including Pope Paul III’s family, the Shroud of Turin project, the Historical Dept of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Getty Conservation Institute among many others.
Scott Haskins has written dozens of articles on what to do at home to take care of your stuff that has been published in corporate newsletters, art magazines, and other specialty publications and websites. He also wrote a pamphlet entitled “How To Respond After An Earthquake”  of which over 500,000 were distributed in Los Angeles, through the human resource departments of the Bank of America after the Northridge Earthquake.
He has been personally involved in seven “major” California disasters: three earthquakes (Silomar ‘71, Whittier ‘89 and Northridge ‘94), two fires (Santa Barbara ’90, 2008 and Oakland ‘93) and one flood (Santa Barbara ’95) and has consulted with people on innumerable other accidents. He is the expert, providing important (essential!) information for those interested in preserving: family history, genealogy, scrapbooking, collectibles, old letters, memorabilia, old photos, books, art and frames that have been afflicted with mold, dirt, rips, broken ceramics and glass, vandalism, smoke, holes, tears and water damage caused by fires, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, leaking water heaters, Father Time. . .or even grandchildren!

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1614486077
• ISBN 13: 9781614486077
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180