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The charge of the committee is to: provide educational and technical information to the AIC membership to increase knowledge of safety hazards and general health issues related to the conservation profession; offer information through lectures, workshops, displays, AIC publications, AIC website, and other electronic and print media; address health and safety issues of concern to the AIC membership by maintaining current information through research, by collaboration with health and safety professionals and with other health and safety organizations, and, periodically, by statistically valid surveys, the results of which will facilitate establishing priorities.

Committee Leadership

	Ms. Tara D. Kennedy (Chair) Preservation Services Librarian/ Preventive Conservator Yale University Library New Haven, CT United States
	Ms Anne Kingery-Schwartz (Chair Emeritus) Principal Objects Conservator Kingery Conservation LLC Washington, DC United States
	Ms. Kerith Koss Schrager (Chair Emeritus) Objects Conservator The Found Object Art Conservation White Plains, NY United States
	Ms. Anne Marigza (Chair Emeritus) Conservator United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Washington, DC United States
	Ms. Arianna Carini Johnston (Member) Independent Contractor Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Falls Church, VA United States
	Health & Safety Committee (Member) American Institute for Conservation/Foundation for Advancement in Conservation Washington, DC United States
	Ms. Susan D. Costello (Member) Associate Conservator of Objects and Sculpture Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Cambridge, MA United States
	Ms Kimberly Harmon (Member) Industrial Hygienist Smithsonian Office of Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Washington, DC United States
	Ms. Kathryn A Makos, MPH, CIH (Member (Ex-Officio)) Industrial Hygienist (Retired) Rockville, MD United States
	Mrs. Kate L. McEnroe (Member) Associate Conservator of Archaeological Materials Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Williamsburg, VA United States
	Ms. Laura Mina (Member) Head of Textile Conservation Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library Winterthur, DE United States
	Ms. Paulette Reading (Member) Textile Conservator Mountain States Art Conservation Denver, CO United States
	Ms. Katherine Ridgway (Member) Conservator, State Archaeology Division Virginia Department of Historic Resources Richmond, VA United States
	Ms. Rachael Perkins Arenstein (e-Editor) Partner AM Art Conservation LLC Scarsdale, NY United States
	Ms Anita Dey (Student Member) Graduate Felllow Patricia H. and Richard E. Garman Art Conservation Department State University of New York College at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo State) Buffalo, NY United States
	Ms. Lisa Goldberg (AIC News Editor) Goldberg Preservation Services, LLC Corning, NY United States
	Mr. Thomas J. Braun (Board Liaison) Head of Conservation and Senior Objects Conservator Minnesota Historical Society Saint Paul, MN United States
	Ms. Bonnie Naugle (Staff Liaison) Communications & Membership Director American Institute for Conservation/Foundation for Advancement in Conservation Washington, DC United States