Month: October 2015

Lead regulations can be very confusing, especially for contractors trying to do things right. The first and main question as a contractor that you need to ask is “is the building considered child-occupied?” . The EPA defines a child-occupied building as a building or portion of a building, constructed prior to 1978, visited regularly by ...

When I first started working in the environmental consulting field while still in college, I didn’t even know what asbestos was. The “have you been exposed to asbestos and been diagnosed with mesothelioma?” ads were not on TV, or at least I didn’t notice them, and having to think about the health and protection of ...

In this field, you learn something new every day. Sometimes the information is there, but if you aren’t searching for it, you may not get it. When doing a lead inspection, representative painted surfaces are tested, and the EPA is very specific as to how many components, etc. are tested, so there isn’t much room ...