Transcript Introduction To The Preventive Maintenance Program

Introduction To The Preventive
Maintenance Program
Objectives
• What is the preventive maintenance program?
• Who is eligible to participate?
• What are the benefits to owners and residents?
• What is involved in participation?
What is the Preventive
Maintenance Program?
• In 1997 the North Carolina General Assembly
adopted the Childhood Lead Exposure Control
Act establishing a new voluntary preventive
maintenance program (PMP).
• The PMP is designed to reduce childhood lead
exposure in pre-1978 rental housing.
• The PMP is primary prevention!
Participation is Voluntary!
• Owners of pre-1978 residential property are eligible
to participate.
• Owners of property identified as a potential source
of childhood lead poisoning are also eligible to
participate.
• The following are not eligible:
• Child occupied facilities
• Child day care facilities
• Schools
• Determined by the department
Benefits of Participation
– Protect children from exposure to lead-based paint hazards
– Liability relief from lead poisoning litigation
– Market property as lead-safe with a certificate of
compliance
– Free use of High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA)
vacuums
– Discounts on building materials and paint supplies at local
businesses
– Training for maintenance workers at no cost
Participation
• Annual lead-safe maintenance activities:
- Repair and repaint areas of deteriorated paint
- Pre-1950’s property must also:
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Address exterior areas
Cover bare soil areas within 3 ft. of the foundation
Adjust doors and windows
Make interior surfaces smooth and easy to clean
• Use specialized cleaning to remove lead dust
• Provide occupants with EPA information
– Summaries of lead inspection reports
– Verify compliance by having a certified lead inspector or risk
assessor conduct a visual inspection and collect dust samples for
analysis
•Safe Work Practices For Interior
Surfaces
– Use safe work practices to avoid creating lead-based
paint hazards
– Use safe work practices to prevent the spread of lead
dust.
•Limit work access to work area for workers only.
•Cover area with 6 ml polyethylene plastic or equivalent.
•Protect Occupant’s belongings.
•Wet surfaces before disturbing.
•Wet debris before sweeping.
•Thoroughly clean the work area of lead contaminated dust.
Prohibited Practices
-DO NOT use the following unsafe
paint removal practices:
– Stripping on-site with methylene chloride-based solutions
– Open flame burning
– Heating paint above 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit
– Power sanding or sandblasting (unless you use a special
vacuum attachment to contain dust)
– Water blasting/abrasive blasting
– Dry scraping
Disclosure
Provide lead-based paint (LBP) hazard information
to tenants per title X including the EPA-developed
educational pamphlet and any information available
about LBP or LBP hazards specific to the unit.
Reporting
Owners must
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- Post written notices to tenants asking them to report deteriorating paint
within 72 hours of discovery and letting them know who to contact; and,
- notify the department and occupants three days prior to commencing
maintenance, renovation, or remodeling activities that occur after a
certificate of compliance is issued.
Maintenance Staff
Your maintenance staff must have proper training.
At a minimum,
maintenance supervisors
need to complete a training
course based on HUD/EPA
operations and
maintenance/ interim
control activities.
The maintenance
supervisor should ensure
that all workers either
complete a training course
or have a clear
understanding of LBP
hazards, unsafe practices,
occupant protection, and
dust cleanup methods.
Maintenance
Maintenance Staff need to:
- Correct conditions in which painted surfaces
are rubbing, binding, or being damaged to
protect the integrity of the paint and to
prevent the generation of lead dust.
Examples of this include re-hanging binding
doors, installing doorstops to prevent doors
from damaging painted surfaces, and
reworking windows.
- Cover or restrict access to bare soil (unless it is found not to be lead
contaminated). In most cases, covering lead-contaminated bare soil with
mulch or sod is an effective control method.
Dust Sampling
• Certified Lead Inspectors must perform sufficient
dust tests to ensure safety.
• Dust tests of the work area should be performed
after maintenance activities are completed in any
unit occupied by a family with a child under six or a
pregnant woman if more than a minimum amount of
paint is disturbed.
- Smooth horizontal surfaces as much as possible. Examples
include:
-recoating hardwood floors with polyurethane
-replacing or recovering worn out linoleum floors
- treating interior window sills and capping window troughs with
vinyl or aluminum.
- Perform specialized cleaning to remove lead dust.
Dust Sampling
•Certified Lead Inspectors must perform sufficient dust test
to ensure safety.
•Dust tests of the work area should be performed after any
maintenance activities are completed.
PMP Annual Monitoring
• Two main phases
• Visual examination
• Environmental sampling for dust
Visual Examination
• Determines the adequacy of lead hazards controls
and whether work was completed as specified.
• Inspector must
-Be aware of the project’s history
-Have a keen eye for detail
-Keep good records
Edgecombe-Nash Preventive
Maintenance Program
Edgecombe County Health Dept.
107 Atlantic Ave.
Rocky Mount, NC 27801
252-212-0131
Beverly Baldinger
Program Coordinator
Certified Risk Assessor/
Lead Inspector