Title: Lead Hazard Awareness Project: Housecleaning for Lead Safety | Clean Water Action
Headings: Lead Hazard Awareness Project: Housecleaning for Lead Safety
Lead Hazard Awareness Project: Housecleaning for Lead Safety
Cleaning strategies for lead dust:
Dealing with lead dust in carpets
Routine cleaning of hard surfaces
Cleaning RRP-Style – EPA/HUD rules for cleaning bare floors after Renovation, Repair, and Painting
Issues:
Campaign:
Region/State:

Content: Lead Hazard Awareness Project: Housecleaning for Lead Safety | Clean Water Action
Lead Hazard Awareness Project: Housecleaning for Lead Safety
If you live in an old city house, you likely have lead in your paint and lead in your soil. Dust from both paint and soil contributes to house dust, and lead in house dust is a major source of lead poisoning in babies and small children. Minimizing lead dust is therefore one of the most important things you can do for your children. Begin by blocking dust from your house by covering bare soil in your yard, removing outdoor shoes, covering deteriorated paint, and placing air filters in opened windows. Whatever dust makes it into your house can be removed using the cleaning strategies and procedures in this brochure. Lead dust particles come in two sizes: very small and microscopically small. Very small lead dust settles lightly and is easily stirred up into the air by dry sweeping.