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.