Introduction To The Preventive Maintenance Program

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Introduction To The Preventive Maintenance
Program



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Objectives

• What is the preventive maintenance program?
• Who is eligible to participate?
• What are the benefits to owners and residents?
• What is involved in participation? 

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What is the Preventive Maintenance Program?

• In 1997 the North Carolina General Assembly
  adopted the Childhood Lead Exposure Control Act
  establishing a new voluntary preventive
  maintenance program (PMP).
• The PMP is designed to reduce childhood lead
  exposure in pre-1978 rental housing.
• The PMP is primary prevention!

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Participation is Voluntary!

• Owners of pre-1978 residential property are
  eligible to participate.
• Owners of property identified as a potential
  source of childhood lead poisoning are also
  eligible to participate.
• The following are not eligible
• Child occupied facilities
• Child day care facilities
• Schools
• Determined by the department

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Benefits of Participation

• Protect children from exposure to lead-based
  paint hazards
• Liability relief from lead poisoning litigation
• Market property as lead-safe with a certificate
  of compliance
• Free use of High Efficiency Particulate Air
  (HEPA) vacuums
• Discounts on building materials and paint
  supplies at local businesses
• Training for maintenance workers at no cost

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Participation

• Annual lead-safe maintenance activities
  - Repair and repaint areas of
  deteriorated paint - Pre-1950s
  property must also
• Address exterior areas
• Cover bare soil areas within 3 ft. of the
  foundation
• Adjust doors and windows
• Make interior surfaces smooth and easy to clean
• Use specialized cleaning to remove lead dust
• Provide occupants with EPA information
• Summaries of lead inspection reports
• Verify compliance by having a certified lead
  inspector or risk assessor conduct a visual
  inspection and collect dust samples for analysis

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Safe Work Practices For Interior Surfaces

• Use safe work practices to avoid creating
  lead-based paint hazards
• Use safe work practices to prevent the spread of
  lead dust.

• Limit work access to work area for workers only.
• Cover area with 6 ml polyethylene plastic or
  equivalent.
• Protect Occupants belongings.
• Wet surfaces before disturbing.
• Wet debris before sweeping.
• Thoroughly clean the work area of lead
  contaminated dust.

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Prohibited Practices
-DO NOT
use the following unsafe paint removal practices

• Stripping on-site with methylene chloride-based
  solutions
• Open flame burning
• Heating paint above 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit
• Power sanding or sandblasting (unless you use a
  special vacuum attachment to contain dust)
• Water blasting/abrasive blasting
• Dry scraping

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 Disclosure

-Provide lead-based paint (LBP) hazard
information to tenants per title X including the
EPA-developed educational pamphlet and any
information available about LBP or LBP hazards
specific to the unit. 
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Owners must

- Post written notices to tenants asking
them to report deteriorating paint within 72
hours of discovery and letting them know who to
contact and, - notify the department and
occupants three days prior to commencing
maintenance, renovation, or remodeling activities
that occur after a certificate of compliance is
issued.
Reporting
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Maintenance Staff
Your maintenance staff must have proper
training.
At a minimum, maintenance supervisors need to
complete a training course based on HUD/EPA
operations and maintenance/ interim control
activities.
The maintenance supervisor should ensure that all
workers either complete a training course or have
a clear understanding of LBP hazards, unsafe
practices, occupant protection, and dust cleanup
methods.
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 Maintenance Staff need to- Correct
conditions in which painted surfacesare rubbing,
binding, or being damaged to protect the
integrity of the paint and to prevent the
generation of lead dust. Examples of this
include re-hanging binding doors, installing
doorstops to prevent doors from damaging painted
surfaces, and reworking windows.- Cover or
restrict access to bare soil (unless it is found
not to be lead contaminated). In most cases,
covering lead-contaminated bare soil with mulch
or sod is an effective control method.

• Maintenance

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Dust Sampling

• Certified Lead Inspectors must perform sufficient
  dust tests to ensure safety.
• Dust tests of the work area should be performed
  after maintenance activities are completed in any
  unit occupied by a family with a child under six
  or a pregnant woman if more than a minimum amount
  of paint is disturbed.

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- Smooth horizontal surfaces as much as
possible. Examples include -recoating
hardwood floors with polyurethane
-replacing or recovering worn out linoleum
floors - treating interior window
sills and capping window troughs with vinyl or
aluminum.- Perform specialized cleaning to
remove lead dust.
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PMP Annual Monitoring

• Dust Sampling
• Certified Lead Inspectors must perform sufficient
  dust test to ensure safety.
• Dust tests of the work area should be performed
  after any maintenance activities are completed.

• Two main phases
• Visual examination
• Environmental sampling for dust

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Visual Examination

• Determines the adequacy of lead hazards controls
  and whether work was completed as specified.
• Inspector must
• -Be aware of the projects history
• -Have a keen eye for detail
• -Keep good records

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Edgecombe-Nash Preventive Maintenance Program
Edgecombe County Health Dept. 107 Atlantic
Ave. Rocky Mount, NC 27801 252-212-0131
Beverly Baldinger Program Coordinator Certified
Risk Assessor/ Lead Inspector