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Lead

Lead Safety Documents and Outreach Materials

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Lead Safety Documents and Outreach Materials

EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm Logo

Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule Outreach 

Lead Free Kids Logo, English

General Lead Outreach

Front cover of Protect Your Family pamphlet

Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home

Required to be provided to prospective buyers and renters of pre-1978 homes and apartments.

NEW! A revised January 2020 version of Protect Your Family is available in English, Spanish, Arabic, French, Chinese, Russian, Somali and Vietnamese language formats.

*Note: EPA does not require users to discard older versions of the document. EPA encourages users to exhaust their existing stock prior to printing copies of the new version. In order to ensure that current information is received if copies of the older versions are provided, users are encouraged to provide a PYF supplement (English) or a PYF supplement (Spanish), which contains updates to previous versions.

Front cover of Lead-Safe Certified Guide to Renovate Right

Renovate Right: Important Lead Hazard Information for Families, Child Care Providers, and Schools

General information about legal requirements for safe lead practices for homeowners, tenants, child care providers and parents during renovation activities. September 2011 revised version. Available in color landscape, color booklet, black-and-white booklet, and black-and-white landscape, in both English and Spanish.

Insert sheet to replace page 10 (PDF) (added July 15, 2011; two copies per 8 1/2 x11 page) en español (PDF) If you have remaining stocks of the April 2010 version of the Renovate Right brochure, use this insert to replace page 10 of that document.

Cover of Lead Awareness in Indian Country: Keeping our Children Healthy! Guidebook

Lead Awareness in Indian Country: Keeping our Children Healthy! Curriculum

A curriculum built for community leaders to help tribes and communities protect children from potential lead exposure and lead poisoning. This robust set of educational tools contains four modules that instructors can use to improve public awareness and empower individuals to take preventative actions that protect their families from lead.

Module topics include: Understanding Lead, Effective Cleaning Techniques, Personal Hygiene and Nutrition and Hiring Certified Lead Professionals.

Cover for Lead Poisoning and Your Children pamphlet

Lead Poisoning and Your Children

Information for parents on protecting children from lead poisoning, such as getting children tested for lead, and reducing other exposures from lead-based paint and lead in water. It unfolds into a full poster summarizing seven basic steps for parents. Available in English and Spanish (PDF).

Cover of Steps to Lead Safe Renovation, Repair and Painting: October 2011 Guide

Steps to LEAD SAFE Renovation, Repair and Painting

Information for contractors and homeowners on how to plan for and complete a home renovation, repair or painting project in pre-1978 housing and child-occupied facilities using lead-safe work practices. October 2011 revised version available in English and Spanish.

Front Cover of Small Entity Compliance Guide to Renovate Right

Small Entity Compliance Guide to Renovate Right

A handbook for contractors, property managers, and maintenance personnel working in homes, child care facilities, and schools built before 1978. September 2011 revised version. Available in English and Spanish (PDF).

Cover of Fight Lead Poisoning with a Healthy Diet

Fight Lead Poisoning with a Healthy Diet

Discusses proper nutrition, lead poisoning prevention and features fast, nutritious recipes. Available in English and Spanish (PDF).

Runs Better Unleaded poster

Runs Better Unleaded

Wall poster with a general lead awareness message. Available in color and black-and-white.

Front cover of Best Management Practices for Lead at Outdoor Shooting Ranges manual

Best Management Practices for Lead at Outdoor Shooting Ranges

Manual that provides owners and operators of outdoor rifle, pistol, trap, skeet and sporting clay ranges with information on lead management at their ranges.