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Title: CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM


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CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE
PROGRAM
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Learning 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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Preventive Maintenance Program
  • In 1997 the North Carolina General Assembly
    adopted the Childhood Lead Exposure Control Act
    establishing a voluntary preventive maintenance
    program (PMP).
  • The PMP is designed to to reduce childhood lead
    exposure in pre-1978 rental housing.
  • The PMP is primary prevention !

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Who is Eligible to Participate?
  • 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.

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Who cannot Participate?
  • Child occupied facilities such as child care
    centers and schools.

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Benefits Of Participation
  • Protect children from exposure to lead-based
    paint or lead-contaminated dust.
  • Liability relief from claims arising from
    exposure to lead-based paint or lead-contaminated
    dust.
  • Property Marketing

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Maintenance Standard Activities
  • Program participants must do the following
  • - repair and repaint interior areas of
    deteriorated paint
  • - adjust doors and windows
  • - make interior surfaces smooth and easy to clean
  • - pre-1950s property must also
  • repair and repaint exterior areas
  • cover bare soil within 3 ft. of the foundation
  • see 18A .3107

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Maintenance Standard Activities (contd)
  • Participants must use work practices that
    prevent the spread and exposure to lead dust.
  • Protect occupants belongings by covering or
    removing from the work area.
  • Wet painted surfaces before sanding or scrapping
    or cutting.
  • Wet debris before sweeping.
  • see 18A .3101 Safe work practices for a more
    complete list

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Maintenance Standard Activities (contd)
  • - Use specialized cleaning to remove lead dust.
  • - Provide occupants with summaries of lead
    inspection reports and EPA information.
  • - Cap window troughs with vinyl or aluminum.
  • - A certified lead inspector must verify
    compliance by conducting a visual inspection and
  • dust sampling.

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Maintenance Standard Activities (contd)
  • Reporting (130a-131.9g 18a .3108)
  • - Post written notices to tenants asking them to
    report deteriorated paint within 72 hours.
  • - The department and occupants must be notified
    three days prior to commencing maintenance,
    renovation, or remodeling activities that occur
    after a certificate of compliance is issued.

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Maintenance Staff
  • Maintenance staff must have proper training.
  • Maintenance workers should have a clear
    understanding of lead-based paint hazards, safe
    work practices, occupant protection, and dust
    cleanup methods.

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Questions?
  • Alan Huneycutt
  • Preventive Maintenance Program Coordinator
  • Childrens Environmental Health Branch
  • 1632 Mail Service Center
  • Raleigh, NC 27699
  • Tel. (704) 895-2737
  • Fax (704) 895-9646
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