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Download the Guidance for Use of the Blue Shield Logo

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To download the Blue and white shield emblem of the Convention, please see the Blue Shield International website.
NOTE: The cultural emblem is a protective symbol used during armed conflicts and its use is restricted by law.

Risk Management and Disaster/Emergency Planning Documents

British Library (Preservation Advisory Centre) - Disaster/Emergency planning (online guide).

Dorge, V. and Jones, S. (1999) Building an Emergency Plan: A Guide for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions (pdf), The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles.

Herb, S. (1998) Risk Preparedness: a management manual for World Cultural Heritage (pdf) , ICCROM, Rome.

ICCROM – A Guide to Risk Management of Cultural Heritage (pdf).

This guide is an abridged version of The ABC Method. It explains the ABC Method using many images, basic examples and simple exercises. It has been designed to introduce the risk-based approach to decision makers and to promote its use by heritage professionals and a younger generation of conservators.

ICCROM – The ABC Method – A risk management approach to the preservation of cultural heritage.

This manual offers a comprehensive understanding of risk management applied to the preservation of heritage assets, whether collections, buildings or sites. It provides a step-by-step procedure and a variety of tools to guide the heritage professional in applying the ABC method to their own context. The method can be applied to a range of situations, from analysis of a single risk to a comprehensive risk assessment of the entire heritage asset.

Smithsonian Institution (Office of Risk Management) - Primer on Disaster Preparedness, Management & Response (pdf).

State Gallery New South West - Disaster Planning, Response and Recovery.

UNESCO - Fire risk management guide: protecting cultural and natural heritage from fire (2024), Paris: UNESCO (ENG / ESP)

ICA - Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness: A Manual for Protecting Archives. Emilie Gagnet Leumas and Margaret Crockett (ENG / Others forthcoming)
ICA - Practical Guide to Emergency Digitization of Paper-Based Archival Heritage (ENG / UKR)

Guide on Historic Buildings and Fire in War-affected Countries. By request of the Maidan Museum and The Heritage Emergency Response Initiative; By René Teijgeler Nina Kjølsen Jernæs

Wenk, T., and Giovanni, A. (2024). Cultural property shelters: construction of new refuges and repurposing of decommissioned protected facilities. Protection of Cultural Property Section, Swiss Federal Office for Civil Protection

Heritage Crime Prevention & Security and Terrorism

Historic England Heritage Crime Website has resources and advice, including how to report a heritage crime.
Publications include:

Historic England - Heritage Crime Risk Assessment
Historic England - Heritage Crime Prevention
Historic England - Heritage Crime A Guide for Law Enforcement Officers

ACT (Action Counters Terrorism) training

Protect UK / National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) - Training

Security Guidance for Venues

Archives & Records Association (UK & Ireland) and Trident Manor - Security Guidance for Venues

This security guidance document ... will not answer all of the security questions that you may have but it will provide a solid basis upon which security risk management decisions can be taken. The guidance has been written to apply to a wide range of venue types and in a manner that is sensible, proportionate, and easy to understand. Not all venues can afford specific physical or technical security systems, nor do they have additional human resources to devote to security so a balanced approach that is risk and resource-based must be offered. This guidance aims to provide advice and guidance needed for members to make informed decisions about security risk management, how to use available resources and actions to consider to proactively protect their staff, users and assets. All organisations will have their own particular ways of working and there are different methodologies that can be applied to areas such as risk management. This document offers a particular approach but members should select and interpret the different sections with regard to their own circumstances.