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Raising expectations for meaningful lead-safety and healthy homes standards and especially for their enforcement by a well-equipped regulatory infrastructure is crucial in the fight to prevent childhood lead poisoning. Enhancing work safety, ensuring appropriate training/certification programs, increasing property owner responsibility, expanding housing codes, allowing lead hazard information to be shared, and broadening screening triggers are but a few of the general methods localities can utilize to intensify their commitments to safer home environments.
Adopt State and Local Lead Hazard Disclosure Laws Certify Lead Sampling Technicians Ensure Lead Safety in Licensed Child Care Programs Establish a Lead-Safe Housing Registry Make Lead Hazards a Violation of the Housing or Health Code Notify All Residents in a Building Found to Contain Lead Hazards Protect Occupants during Hazard Remediation and Renovation Work Require Rental Property Owners to Inform Tenants How to Repair Deteriorating Paint Require Safe Work Practices during Remodeling, Repair, and Painting Train Painters, Remodelers, and Maintenance Staff in Lead-Safe Work Practices
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