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 …
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.
FREE Training! An EPA grant has made this class possible.
Learn some things beforehand with What You Need to Know About Lead.
The Spades Park Branch was built with funds from a $120,000 grant by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation and opened in 1912, six months after the opening of the city’s other remaining Carnegie Library, the East Washington Branch. The 7,500-square-foot branch underwent a $610,000 renovation in 1987 and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2012.
