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One-Day Lead-Safe Training

EPA Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) Training

Free one-day Lead-Safe Training for anyone who provides renovation or maintenance for homes, schools, or day-cares built before 1978. Participants can take the class and exam, and receive certification in one day!

This 8-hour class offers training on lead-based paint renovation and will include a presentation of modules, hands on-exercises, and an exam for certification. 

ANYONE who provides renovation or maintenance work for homes, schools, or daycare centers built before 1978 MUST COMPLETE THIS TRAINING. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) needs your help in preventing lead poisoning in children.

This class is for painters, renovation and repair contractors, building code officials, regulators, residents, parents, landlords, staff working with contractors. Also …

• Youth Build trainees or apprentice programs, profit, or non-profit groups
• Renovators, painters, window installers, housing maintenance staff, electricians, HVAC specialists, plumbers, floor finishers, as well as landlords who perform any of these tasks
• Any worker who removes windows or disrupts more than six square feet of paint in pre-1978 homes, schools, or daycare centers. Even if structures are vacant, workers must be in compliance

Requirements: Work or live in the area, at least 18 years of age, and available all day. Must understand and read English and have a state-issued photo ID to show proof of residence for EPA. You will be photographed—a requirement for your Certificate after passing the exam.

 Why? It is the law—without training you could face fines up to $37,500 per day.

• Exposure to lead dust can cause irreversible brain damage in children.
• Avoid poisoning children, prevent lawsuits, and stop losing work to certified competitors.
• Protect yourself, workers, customers, and children from serious health risks.
• Attract new clients via the EPA website as a Lead-Safe EPA Certified Firm.

FREE Training! An EPA grant has made this class possible. 

U.S. EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago is funding this training.
Public Health & Safety, Inc. is accredited to teach Lead Renovator Initial Classes.
The Indianapolis Public Library and IU-I are making this class possible in Indianapolis.
 

Learn some things beforehand with What You Need to Know About Lead.

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