Certified Lead Inspectors and Risk Assessors
These professionals are equipped to test a residence or yard for lead, and to provide you with a “game plan” for creating a lead-safe environment.
Certified Lead Abatement Contractors
These professionals are trained to properly undertake work designed to eliminate lead-based paint hazards.
Certified RRP Contractors
Federal law requires contractors that disturb painted surfaces in homes, child care facilities and schools built before 1978 to be certified and follow specific “lead safe work practices” to prevent lead contamination. Ask to see your contractor’s RRP Certification number. Don’t chance it with a contractor that is not RRP certified.
RRP contractors are typically remodelers, painters and plumbers. They are not lead abatement contractors. They have been trained to use “lead safe work practices” that are intended to contain the debris in the area in which they are working and to properly clean up the debris and dust once the job is finished. Be sure to ask the contractor for their RRP Certification Number before you have them do the work.
Certified RRP Contractors
Lead Hazard Control Products
These products are designed for do-it-yourselfers to control lead hazards in the home or apartment. They may be purchased directly from the manufacturer or found in retail stores.
Water Filtration Products
Choose the type of filter based on your needs. For example, do you simply want to filter water in your kitchen, or do you want to a filtration system or an entire home? You can check whether a particular brand of filter has been certified by the NSF International or by the Water Quality Association. Keep in mind that some products will claim to be tested to NSF standards but do not have the organization’s certification. These products may not have been tested by NSF International.
Lead in Paint, Dust, Soil and Water Analysis Laboratories
These are accredited laboratories that are certified in analyzing dust, soil or paint chips for lead, or for analyzing water samples for lead, or both.
Find Accredited LaboratoriesChild Testing Facilities
Among the facilities where a child may be tested for lead poisoning are public health clinics, physicians’ offices, and, in some cases, WIC clinics.