CDPH LEAD INSPECTOR/ASSESSOR
CALIFORNIA STATE EXAM
2024/2025
Atomic Symbol for Lead and origin Latin word? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅Pb; plumbum meaning "liquid silver"
What form of lead is mostly used in the United States? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅#1 Form: Lead Acid Batteries, #2 Form: Ammunition,
#3 Form: Paints & Coatings
Why is/was lead added to paint? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅Durability. Other qualities include: prevents mold
growth & corrosion, soundproofing, quick drying.
What is white lead? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Major form of lead
used in paint before 1950, it was the only white paint used in European
paintings until 19th century, heavy consistency, fastest drying white
paint.
What does Presumed Lead-Based Paint refer to? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅Residential structures built prior to January 1, 1978/
also called Target Housing.
Supplied Air Respirators (SARs) must use what grade air and what hose
length? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Grade D Air (oxygen level
,greater than or equal to 19.5% and less than or equal to 23.5%), hose
must not exceed 300 feet in length.
When do you replace coveralls daily? When do you replace them
weekly? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Weekly replacement if exposed
to 50 - 200 μg/m3. Daily Replacement if exposed to more than 200
μg/m3.
When are you required to wear a respirator? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅When an employee's exposure to lead exceeds the PEL,
work operations for which engineering controls and work practices are
not sufficient enough to reduce levels to below PEL, when an employee
requests a respirator, and when respirators are used for interim practices
during trigger tasks.
EPA/HUD definition of Lead-Based Paint? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅≥ 0.5% by weight or ≥ 1.0 mg/cm2 or ≥ 5000 ppm
What year was the amount of lead that could be in certain coatings
restricted to a lead concentration of less than ≤ 0.06% lead by weight (≤
600 ppm) if the coating was applied to surfaces that could be accessible
to children/the public and who by? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅1978;
Consumer Product Safety Commission.
What year was the allowable amount of lead further reduced if applied
to surfaces that could be accessible to children/the public and what was
it lowered to? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅2009; ≤0.009% lead by
weight (≤ 90ppm)
,Who began phase out of lead gasoline for consumer use? What year and
what act officially banned it? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅EPA; 1996
Clean Air Act.
In October (what year), the U.S. Congress passed a LAW called the
Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act also known as
____. - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅1992, Tile X or Title 10.
Title X lists 6 situations where lead is a hazard, what are they? -
ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Lead dust from lead-based paint (1) which
is damaged or deteriorated, (2) on any friction surface, (3) on any impact
surface. (4) Lead-painted surfaces that a child could chew. Lead-
contaminated (5) dust anywhere in the home or (6) soil that is above the
acceptable standards set by the EPA.
When does the EPA/HUD Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule (RRP)
under the authority of the Toxic Substances Control Act apply, and what
year was it introduced/enforced? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅Addresses hazards caused by renovation, repair and
painting work activities in any residential housing or child-occupied
facility constructed before 1978 (target housing). It does this by
establishing requirements for training/certifying workers, accrediting
training providers etc. 2008/2010.
Proposition 65 requires what? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Requires
California to publish a list of chemicals known to cause cancer or birth
defects or reproductive harm (lead).
, When is a clearance required? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅All
permanent abatement activities and temporary abatement when a child
with elevated blood levels. Outdoor is usually visual unless it's soil
(must pass clearance).
Abatement for public and residential buildings which is designed to
reduce lead paint or lead hazards for a minimum of twenty years must be
conducted by? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Certified Lead Supervisor
or Certified Lead Worker.
Abatement for public and residential buildings which is designed to
reduce lead paint or lead hazards for less than twenty years must be
conducted by? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅According to procedures
specified in HUD Chapter 11: Interim Controls, "Guidelines for the
Evaluation and Control of Lead-Based Paint Hazards in Housing".
What can a certified Worker do? How long is the course? State exam
required yes or no? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Perform Abatement,
3-day course, no state exam required
What can a certified Supervisor do? How long is the course? State exam
required yes or no? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Perform Abatement
and Supervise Abatement, 5-day course, must pass exam.
What can a certified Project Monitor do? How long is the course? State
exam required yes or no? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Perform
CALIFORNIA STATE EXAM
2024/2025
Atomic Symbol for Lead and origin Latin word? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅Pb; plumbum meaning "liquid silver"
What form of lead is mostly used in the United States? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅#1 Form: Lead Acid Batteries, #2 Form: Ammunition,
#3 Form: Paints & Coatings
Why is/was lead added to paint? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅Durability. Other qualities include: prevents mold
growth & corrosion, soundproofing, quick drying.
What is white lead? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Major form of lead
used in paint before 1950, it was the only white paint used in European
paintings until 19th century, heavy consistency, fastest drying white
paint.
What does Presumed Lead-Based Paint refer to? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅Residential structures built prior to January 1, 1978/
also called Target Housing.
Supplied Air Respirators (SARs) must use what grade air and what hose
length? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Grade D Air (oxygen level
,greater than or equal to 19.5% and less than or equal to 23.5%), hose
must not exceed 300 feet in length.
When do you replace coveralls daily? When do you replace them
weekly? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Weekly replacement if exposed
to 50 - 200 μg/m3. Daily Replacement if exposed to more than 200
μg/m3.
When are you required to wear a respirator? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅When an employee's exposure to lead exceeds the PEL,
work operations for which engineering controls and work practices are
not sufficient enough to reduce levels to below PEL, when an employee
requests a respirator, and when respirators are used for interim practices
during trigger tasks.
EPA/HUD definition of Lead-Based Paint? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅≥ 0.5% by weight or ≥ 1.0 mg/cm2 or ≥ 5000 ppm
What year was the amount of lead that could be in certain coatings
restricted to a lead concentration of less than ≤ 0.06% lead by weight (≤
600 ppm) if the coating was applied to surfaces that could be accessible
to children/the public and who by? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅1978;
Consumer Product Safety Commission.
What year was the allowable amount of lead further reduced if applied
to surfaces that could be accessible to children/the public and what was
it lowered to? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅2009; ≤0.009% lead by
weight (≤ 90ppm)
,Who began phase out of lead gasoline for consumer use? What year and
what act officially banned it? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅EPA; 1996
Clean Air Act.
In October (what year), the U.S. Congress passed a LAW called the
Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act also known as
____. - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅1992, Tile X or Title 10.
Title X lists 6 situations where lead is a hazard, what are they? -
ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Lead dust from lead-based paint (1) which
is damaged or deteriorated, (2) on any friction surface, (3) on any impact
surface. (4) Lead-painted surfaces that a child could chew. Lead-
contaminated (5) dust anywhere in the home or (6) soil that is above the
acceptable standards set by the EPA.
When does the EPA/HUD Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule (RRP)
under the authority of the Toxic Substances Control Act apply, and what
year was it introduced/enforced? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅Addresses hazards caused by renovation, repair and
painting work activities in any residential housing or child-occupied
facility constructed before 1978 (target housing). It does this by
establishing requirements for training/certifying workers, accrediting
training providers etc. 2008/2010.
Proposition 65 requires what? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Requires
California to publish a list of chemicals known to cause cancer or birth
defects or reproductive harm (lead).
, When is a clearance required? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅All
permanent abatement activities and temporary abatement when a child
with elevated blood levels. Outdoor is usually visual unless it's soil
(must pass clearance).
Abatement for public and residential buildings which is designed to
reduce lead paint or lead hazards for a minimum of twenty years must be
conducted by? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Certified Lead Supervisor
or Certified Lead Worker.
Abatement for public and residential buildings which is designed to
reduce lead paint or lead hazards for less than twenty years must be
conducted by? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅According to procedures
specified in HUD Chapter 11: Interim Controls, "Guidelines for the
Evaluation and Control of Lead-Based Paint Hazards in Housing".
What can a certified Worker do? How long is the course? State exam
required yes or no? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Perform Abatement,
3-day course, no state exam required
What can a certified Supervisor do? How long is the course? State exam
required yes or no? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Perform Abatement
and Supervise Abatement, 5-day course, must pass exam.
What can a certified Project Monitor do? How long is the course? State
exam required yes or no? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Perform
