Lead Safe Work Practices Training July 25 in Mobile

Many homes built before 1978 contain lead-based paint. It is critical that renovation, remodeling and repair activities use methods to reduce and control dust and debris from lead-based paint created during work. Even a small amount of dust can cause permanent brain and nerve damage in children. For these reasons, we need to use lead-safe work practices to avoid making dust from old paint and we must clean up as if we did make dust

The Alabama Cooperative Extension System, in cooperation with the Auburn University McWhorter School of Building Science and the Alabama Department of Public Health is offering contractors, property managers and other health and housing professionals an EPA/HUD-approved Lead-Safe Work Practices Training July 25 in Mobile to help them learn how to work with lead-based paint safely. For anyone working on federally-subsidized housing, this training will enable you to work on lead-based paint independently without a licensed abatement contractor supervising you.

The one-day training will also help you prepare to comply with EPA’s new Renovation, Repair and Painting rule. Contractors disturbing paint in most housing and child-occupied facilities built before 1978 will need to be certified by EPA after April 22, 2010 and comply with EPA’s new lead-safe work practice requirements. With this training, you will only need to take a half day refresher course instead of the full-day initial training when the new certified renovator training is offered in late 2009.

The training will be offered at the Mobile County Extension Office. For more information and registration, visit http://www.aces.edu/lead.

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