LEAD HANDLER
EPA Lead Based Paint Handler
This 2-day lead-worker course is designed to meet federal EPA lead
training requirements.
This course, including hands-on activities, will cover topics including:
- background information and sources of contamination on lead federal
and local regulations, hazard recognition and controls
- health effects, safety, medical surveillance
- personal protective equipment, respirators, clothing
- work practices including work area preparation, indoor and outdoor
abatement of paint dust and soil clean-up and disposal and record
keeping.
This course is designed to provide information on the identification
and abatment of lead-based paint hazards.
Course Content:
- Identification of lead-based paint hazards
- Proper abatement and handling of lead-based paint
- Legal, insurance and liability concerns
- State and Federal regulations
- Effects of lead exposure
- Sources of lead contamination
- X-Ray Fluorescence Detectors (XRF)
- HUD's hazard assessment protocol
- State-of-the art abatement procedures
- Removal/encapsulation/enclosure procedures.
