The article reports that the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a broad rule requiring contractors working on homes built before 1978 to use lead-safe work practices. According to the author, the proposal would create the first nationwide requirements covering the way contractors perform ...
I work for a company in Northern Virginia. We are a lead safe certified firm and also have a division in Southern Virginia. The Southern division is venturing in to North Carolina for possible lead renovation, and repairs. I do understand that there needs to be an individual certificate class...
Repair, and Painting Program. The regulations include requirements to train employees in proper work practices; obtain certification from EPA prior to performing renovations; as well as compliance with lead safety practices
This presentation will demonstrate the inadequacies of the new EPA/HUD lead safe work practices for achieving OSHA compliance for worker safety. These inadequacies result in OSHA violations and worker exposures when contractors disturb lead-based paint in residential and child occupied facilities. The EP...
How to Become a Certified Renovation Firm To be a Certified Renovation Firm, contractors must be approved by the EPA. This requires that at least one employee has received training from an EPA-accredited training provider for Lead Safe Work Practices. Contractors must assign a Certified Renovator ...
In late September, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it was launching Enhancing Lead-Safe Work Practices through Education and Outreach (ELSWPEO). The new training and outreach initiative is meant to raise awareness about childho
The RRP Rule, which went into effect in April 2010, mandates lead-safe certification and work practices for contractors performing renovation, repair and painting projects that disturb more than six feet of lead-based paint in most pre-1978 homes, child-care facilities and schools. Cost Savings ...
1486 Washtenaw Ave, Ypsilanti, MI 48197 Avoid fines of up to $37,500 per violation Now is the time to get your lead paint certification Make sure you are following lead safe practices by becoming lead paint certified as an EPA RRP Lead Renovator. If you bid on or perform work on ...
“EPA’s proposed Lead and Copper rule is grounded in the best available science and successful practices utilized by drinking water systems to protect children and adults from lead in drinking water,” added EPA Assistant Administrator for Water Radhika Fox. “Cities like Newark, NJ...
said public health experts have long understood there is no safe level of lead in a child’s blood, yet New York state leads the nation in cases of children with elevated blood levels. Black children in Harlem living below the poverty line are twice as likely to suffer from lead poisoning...