Health and Safety for Workers, Students, and Families

Argus Pacific is EPA-certified to provide Lead Renovator training

Argus Pacific has become one only of 120 trainers across the country certified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide training in lead-safe work practices. As of April 22, 2010, the EPA requires contractors performing renovation, repair and painting (RRP) projects that disturb lead-based paint in homes, child care facilities, and schools built before 1978 to receive lead renovator training and become EPA-certified. Renovators also must follow specific EPA-designated work practices to prevent lead contamination.

Argus Pacific's EPA-Certified Lead Renovator Training is an 8-hour class that gives training in lead-safe work practices to renovators, remodelers, painters, maintenance personnel, and any other workers who are being paid to remove or modify painted surfaces in pre-1978 housing and child-occupied facilities. After the training. workers receive EPA certification, which lasts for 5 years.

The class also teaches workers how to comply with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Lead-Safe Housing Rule and satisfies the training requirements for the U.S Department of Energy's (DOE) Lead-Safe Weatherization guidance.

To register for Lead Renovator training classes, go here or call us at 206.518.6095.