Lead Safety TrainingLead safety training is required for any building professional who provides renovation, repair, or painting work to customers in pre-1978 homes, rentals, schools, or childcare facilities. The EPA has made this certification mandatory in an effort to stop lead poisoning, the effects of which can seriously harm children and adults who inhale and ingest lead [...]
In just 8 hours, you can be well on your way to obtaining your EPA lead certification, which is mandatory if you plan to provide any renovation, repair, or painting services to occupants of pre-1978 homes and child-occupied buildings. The EPA has enacted its lead RRP rule to limit the dangers of lead paint exposure, [...]
In addition to teaching lead safe working practices to renovators who work in pre-1978 buildings, lead safety training also teaches participants every step they need to take to comply with the EPA’s lead RRP rule, which regulates the safety of renovation, repair, and painting activities in areas known to contain lead-based paint. In order to [...]
Lead safety training courses are intended for anyone who engages in renovation, repair, or painting activities in homes or childcare facilities built before 1978. The EPA passed its lead RRP rule to outline the legally safe working procedures for renovation, repair, or painting activities which encourage the migration of lead based paint chips beyond a [...]
Picture this. Your renovation firm plans to renovate a home built in 1976. You have been hired to transform this home into a masterpiece ready to sell. A lead safety expert assesses the home and informs you that, because the home was built before 1978, the EPA rules that you must use an approved lead [...]
EPA rules concerning the safe handling of lead based paint in homes, schools, and childcare facilities built before 1978 comes in response to extensive research that connected exposure to lead based paint with severe health effects in adults and children, the worst of which include brain damage and physical growth abnormalities to children under 6 [...]