Lead Abatement Risk Assessor

The Lead Risk Assessor training course provides information for those individuals who wish to perform lead-based paint Risk Assessment or Lead Hazard Screening services. This class will prepare students to perform on-site risk assessment, take samples, determine the severity of lead hazards, and develop options for eliminating those hazards. This course is approved by Virginia's Department of Professional Regulations, and is a prerequisite to obtaining a Virginia Lead Risk Assessor license.

The Lead Inspector training course is a pre-requisite for this class.

This 16-hour course includes the required 4 hours of hands-on training and covers the following:

• Roles and responsibilities of a risk assessor
• Regulatory review
• Collection of background information to perform risk assessment
• Visual inspection for the purpose of identifying potential sources of lead-based hazards
• Sources of environmental lead contamination such as paint, surface dust, water, air, packaging, and food
• Lead hazard screen protocol
• Sampling for other sources of lead exposure
• Interpretation of lead-based paint and other sampling results
• Development of hazard control options, the role of interim controls, and operations and maintenance activities to reduce lead-based paint hazards
• Preparation of a final risk assessment report
• Course review and examination