NYSWDA Lead Update
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Earl Hicks, our Program Coordinator, has done a great job on the forms you should use for documenting Lead Safe Weatherization Practices (LSW); "See Lead Logs Page" for more information and reasons the logs are so important to your agency! He is also working with several agencies on updating the air monitoring, adding several furnace techniques to the process plus will be testing whether the Duct Blaster creates a lead dust problem. For the agencies that will be working on updating the air monitoring, we have assembled a straight forward package of forms and procedures to follow when working on houses built before 1978. We have also secured an affordable quote from a EPA certified lead lab (EMSL) to process your lead samples (for agencies that will be processing updated air monitoring with NYSWDA).
The procedures for collecting the samples,
Air
Sampling Field Form, and
Chain of Custody Forms
are on our website
(bookmark these pages or drag them onto your Desktop). NYSWDA will receive
a copy of all test results to use for our Statewide NID and to evaluate
our LSW practices. We feel with the legal climate in |
NY, that this could be a real
issue for the network. We will do regional trainings for staff on this
issue, but in the meantime please read our information on the Lead
Logs Pages. We have also posted the data collected from Essex, Onondaga, Cattaraugus, Niagara, and Orleans Counties from the past two years. There is a great deal of air monitoring in the collection and you can use that data as a temporary NID. Click Here for a copy of the NID.
NOTE: One agency recently had
an OSHA visit on lead issues and OSHA was impressed with the data the
agency was able to show from our website.
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