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California, during the last decade, enacted
landmark legislation to prevent childhood lead poisoning.
This legislation has established the Childhood Lead Poisoning
Prevention Branch (CLPPB) a children's environmental health
program offering multi-layered solutions to this complex
problem.
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CLPPB Overview
About
the Branch
Vision: The Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch's vision is a
healthy, lead-safe environment where all children can achieve their full potential.
Mission: The mission of the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention
Branch is to eliminate childhood lead poisoning by identifying and caring for lead
burdened children, and preventing environmental exposures to lead.
Goals: The Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch has six goals.
- An informed public able to protect children from lead exposures;
- Well-supported, effective local programs to detect, manage and prevent childhood lead
poisoning;
- Fully developed capacity to track lead exposure statewide and to monitor the management
of lead burdened children;
- Strong infrastructure and preventing children's exposure to lead through partnerships
with government agencies, community-based organizations, and the private sector;
- Full compliance with Federal and State statutory and regulatory requirements; and
- Continued State and national leadership through research, policy development and
standard setting.
California Statutes Related to Childhood Lead Poisoning
Prevention
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act of 1991
(California Health & Safety Code
124125 to 124165)
Declared childhood lead exposure as the most significant childhood environmental health problem in the state. Established the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program and instructed it to continue to take steps necessary to reduce the incidence of childhood lead exposure in California.
Accreditation of Training Providers and Certification of Individuals
(California Health & Safety Code 105250 to 105257)
Establishes a program to accredit lead-related construction training providers and certify individuals to conduct lead-related construction activities.
Reporting of Elevated Blood Lead Levels by Medical Laboratories
(California Health & Safety Code 124130)
Requires laboratories analyzing human blood drawn in California for lead to report all blood lead test results, on persons of any age, to the State. Analyzing laboratories must also report specific information on the person tested and the test performed.
Lead Exposure Screening
(California Health & Safety Code 1367.3)
Requires health care service plans, covering hospital, medical, or surgical expenses on a group basis, to offer benefits that include screening for blood lead levels in at-risk children.
(California Insurance Code, Section 10119.8)
Requires insurers offering individual or group disability insurance policies, covering hospital, medical, or surgical expenses, to offer coverage for blood lead screening.
Real Estate Disclosure Requirements
(California Civil Code 1102 to 1102.16)
Requires the disclosure of known lead-based paint hazards upon sale of a property.
Lead-Safe Schools Protection Act
(California Education Code 32240 to 32245)
Implemented a lead poisoning prevention and protection program for California schools for a survey to ascertain risk factors that predicted lead contamination in public schools. The survey was completed in 1998.
Findings of the survey are under Materials and Products.
Lead-Related Activities in Construction Work
(California Labor Code 6716 to 6717)
Provides for the establishment of standards that protect the health and safety of employees who engage in lead-related construction work, including construction, demolition, renovation and repair.
Lead in Children's Toys
(California Health & Safety Code 108550 to 108580)
Prohibits the manufacture, sale, or exchange of toys with lead content in excess of the amount permitted by federal regulations.
Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention
(California Health & Safety Code 105185 to 105197)
Establishes an occupational lead poisoning prevention program to register and monitor laboratory reports of adult lead toxicity cases, monitor reported cases of occupational lead poisoning to ascertain lead poisoning sources, conduct investigations of take-home exposure cases, train employees and health professionals regarding occupational lead poisoning prevention, and recommended means for lead poisoning prevention.
Lead-Safe Housing
(California Civil Code 1941.1; California Health & Safety Code 17961, 17980, 124130, 17920.10, 105251 to 105257)
Deems a building to be in violation of the State Housing Law if it contains lead hazards, and requires local enforcement agencies to enforce provisions related to lead hazards. Makes it a crime for a person to engage in specified acts related to lead hazard evaluation, abatement, and lead-related constructions courses, unless certified or accredited by the Department. Permits local enforcement agencies to order the abatement of lead hazards or issue a cease and desist order in response to lead hazards.
California Lead Poisoning Prevention Regulations
Title 17
(California Code of Regulations, Title 17, Section 35001 et seq.)
Requirements for lead hazard evaluation and abatement activities, accreditation of training providers, and certification of individuals engaged in lead-based paint activities.
(California Code of Regulations, Title 17, Sections 37000 to 37100)
For more information, please see Children at Risk and
Provider Outreach
pages.
Specifies a standard of care for health care providers, regarding screening and assessing for childhood lead poisoning. It includes anticipatory guidance, risk assessment, and blood lead testing for children at risk for lead poisoning.
Title 8
(California Code of Regulations, Title 8, Section 1532.1 et seq.)
Worker protection requirements for employees conducting lead-related construction activities.
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