Toxinformer Newsletter Volume 20 Issue 2 NASSCO

VOLUME 20, ISSUE 4, November, 2001

Home Safe Home / Hogar Seguro Hogar

Dennis Livingston, left, author of Maintaining a Lead Safe Home,
shows a member of the MAAC Project Weatherization Program
crew how to perform a safe and cost-effective window repair.
In August, Livingston provided a two-day training on lead-safe reno-
vation, abatement and work practices for EHC’s Promotoras, Sherman
Heights residents, workers from the MAAC Project, and representatives
from National City and the City of San Diego.

Dennis Livingston, a la izquierda, autor de Maintaining a Lead Safe Home,
le demuestra a un miembro del equipo del grupo del MAAC Project
Weatherization Program como reparar una ventana de manera segura
y barata. En agosto, Livingston hizo un entrenamiento de dos días sobre
la renovación segura de plomo, reducción y prácticas de trabajo para las
Promotoras de EHC, residentes de Sherman Heights, trabajadores del
MAAC Project y para representantes de National City y de la Ciudad de San Diego.

Livingston demonstrates lead-safe techniques for prepping an area containing lead-based paint before sealing it with encapsulating paint. Livingston’s work in the field of lead-poisoning prevention has included serving on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Title X Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction and Financing Task Force. He serves as an instructor at the University of Maryland Environmental Health Center and has developed dozens of lead prevention and weatherization training programs.

Livingston demuestra técnicas seguras de plomo para preparar un área que contiene pintura a base de plomo antes de sellarla con pintura que la encapsularía. El trabajo de Livingston, en el área de la prevención de envenenamiento por plomo incluye haber formado parte de Environmental Protection’s Agency Title X Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction and Financing Task Force. Es instructor en el Centro de Salud Ambiental de la Universidad de Maryland y ha desarrollado docenas de programas de entrenamiento de prevención de plomo y de protección contra el clima.

Among his many other credentials, Livingston was an author and illustrator of the EPA Lead Worker and Risk Assessor Curricula and the National Institute of Building Sciences’ Guide Specification for Reducing Lead-Based Paint Hazards. Contact EHC at (619) 235-0281 for more information on lead-safe renovation practices.

Una de sus muchas credenciales, es que Livingston fue el autor e ilustrador del EPA Lead Worker and Risk Assessor Curricula and the National Institute of Building Sciences’ Guide Specification for Reducing Lead-Based Paint Hazards. Para más información contacte a EHC al (619) 235-0281.