LEAD ABATEMENT SUPERVISOR QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔ Identify the materials used for enclosure - ✔✔Drywall
vinyl siding
Plywood
Paneling
Caulk and sealant
✔✔Hazards that exist in residential environments - ✔✔Lead dust
Lead contaminated soil
Peeling, chipping paint
Folk remedies
✔✔Describe how children are typically exposed to lead - ✔✔Hand to mouth activities
Worker take home dust
✔✔Identify the common routes of worker lead exposure - ✔✔Inhalation
Ingestion
✔✔Describe the basic health effects of lead to workers - ✔✔Stomachache
Nausea
Headache
Memory loss
High Blood pressure
Kidney damage
✔✔Describe the OSHA ( and other requirements) for lead abatement worker training -
✔✔Info on respirators and their use, types, proper fit
Medical exams for everyone working with lead
Describing what your employer is doing to reduce your exposure to lead
, ✔✔Describe the RCRA regulations and regulated information regarding waste disposal
for lead abatement projects - ✔✔Commercial/ industrial projects- tested, labeled, hauled
correctly
Residential property- household hazardous waste exemption
✔✔Identify the lead RCRA definitions of hazardous waste and testing procedures -
✔✔TCLP test- toxic characteristic leaching procedure
Detects how much lead would leach out of the waste. 5mg/l= hazardous waste
Lead meets the toxicity part of being a hazardous waste
✔✔"Competent Person for health and safety" as defined by OSHA - ✔✔A person who
can identify hazards
Someone who can take corrective action
✔✔OSHA respirator protection standards relevant to lead abatement work - ✔✔When
above the permissible exposure limit:
Need to wear HEPA filter and any other appropriate filter
Have a written respiratory program in place
✔✔OSHA general industry standards relevant to lead abatement work - ✔✔Similar to
the construction rule except: it pertains to exposure to lead when it is not
Construction
Agriculture
Factory manufacturing
Medical removal is different
Return to work level is different
✔✔Describe blood monitoring requirements - ✔✔If air monitoring is above the action
level
30ug/m3 for more than 30 days/year
Every 2 months for the first 6 months
If above 40ug/dl then back to every 2 months
At 50ug/dl- medical removal (if 2 consecutive tests)
✔✔Recognize the correct wording of lead wording signs - ✔✔DANGER: Lead work area
May Damage Fertility or the Unborn Child, Cause Damage to the Central Nervous
System, Do Not Eat, Drink, or Smoke in this Area
✔✔Describe the OSHA construction standards (other than lead regs) - ✔✔-Fall
protection
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔ Identify the materials used for enclosure - ✔✔Drywall
vinyl siding
Plywood
Paneling
Caulk and sealant
✔✔Hazards that exist in residential environments - ✔✔Lead dust
Lead contaminated soil
Peeling, chipping paint
Folk remedies
✔✔Describe how children are typically exposed to lead - ✔✔Hand to mouth activities
Worker take home dust
✔✔Identify the common routes of worker lead exposure - ✔✔Inhalation
Ingestion
✔✔Describe the basic health effects of lead to workers - ✔✔Stomachache
Nausea
Headache
Memory loss
High Blood pressure
Kidney damage
✔✔Describe the OSHA ( and other requirements) for lead abatement worker training -
✔✔Info on respirators and their use, types, proper fit
Medical exams for everyone working with lead
Describing what your employer is doing to reduce your exposure to lead
, ✔✔Describe the RCRA regulations and regulated information regarding waste disposal
for lead abatement projects - ✔✔Commercial/ industrial projects- tested, labeled, hauled
correctly
Residential property- household hazardous waste exemption
✔✔Identify the lead RCRA definitions of hazardous waste and testing procedures -
✔✔TCLP test- toxic characteristic leaching procedure
Detects how much lead would leach out of the waste. 5mg/l= hazardous waste
Lead meets the toxicity part of being a hazardous waste
✔✔"Competent Person for health and safety" as defined by OSHA - ✔✔A person who
can identify hazards
Someone who can take corrective action
✔✔OSHA respirator protection standards relevant to lead abatement work - ✔✔When
above the permissible exposure limit:
Need to wear HEPA filter and any other appropriate filter
Have a written respiratory program in place
✔✔OSHA general industry standards relevant to lead abatement work - ✔✔Similar to
the construction rule except: it pertains to exposure to lead when it is not
Construction
Agriculture
Factory manufacturing
Medical removal is different
Return to work level is different
✔✔Describe blood monitoring requirements - ✔✔If air monitoring is above the action
level
30ug/m3 for more than 30 days/year
Every 2 months for the first 6 months
If above 40ug/dl then back to every 2 months
At 50ug/dl- medical removal (if 2 consecutive tests)
✔✔Recognize the correct wording of lead wording signs - ✔✔DANGER: Lead work area
May Damage Fertility or the Unborn Child, Cause Damage to the Central Nervous
System, Do Not Eat, Drink, or Smoke in this Area
✔✔Describe the OSHA construction standards (other than lead regs) - ✔✔-Fall
protection
