As a contractor, you play an important role in helping to prevent lead exposure. Ordinary renovation and maintenance activities can create dust that contains lead. By following the lead-safe work practices, you can prevent lead hazards.
Contractors who perform renovation, repairs, and painting jobs in pre-1978 housing and child-occupied facilities must, before beginning work, provide owners, tenants, and child-care facilities with a copy of EPA's lead hazard information pamphlet Renovate Right: Important Lead Hazard Information for Families, Child Care Providers, and Schools (PDF) (20 pp, 3.3MB) | en español (PDF) (20 pp, 3.2MB). Contractors must document compliance with this requirement. EPA's pre-renovation disclosure form (PDF) (1 pp, 36K) may be used for this purpose.
Understand that after April 22, 2010, federal law will require you to be certified and to use lead-safe work practices. To become certified, renovation contractors must submit an application and fee payment to EPA.
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Application for firm certification (PDF) (9 pp, 642K)
Please note that EPA has eliminated any exemptions from the RRP rule. All contractors who may perform renovations, repairs, or painting on properties built pre-1978 MUST be Lead-Safe Certified by April 22, 2010. Quantus will be offering Lead-Safe Certified classes in the Ohio and Indiana areas.
