Lead Safety Awareness

Lead is one of the most common toxic elements found in industry and is a leading cause of workplace illness. Lead exposure is a health problem worldwide. Nearly every construction trade has the opportunity for potential exposure to lead during “normal” construction tasks including carpenters, electricians, ironworkers, painters, plumbers, sheet metal workers, among others. This training is designed to raise the awareness of employers and workers as to the hazards posed by lead.  Measures, procedures and safe practices need to be in place to control such hazards. Lead in this training refers to “inorganic lead.”