CDPH Lead Inspector/Assessor California State Exam 2024 Latest Questions with Passed Solutions!!Atomic Symbol for Lead and origin Latin word? - Correct Answer Pb; plumbum meaning "liquid silver" What form of lead is mostly used in the United States? - Correct Answer #1 Form: Lead Acid Batteries, #2 Form: Ammunition, #3 Form: Paints & Coatings Why is/was lead added to paint? - Correct Answer Durability. Other qualities include: prevents mold growth & corrosion, soundproofing, quick drying.What is white lead? - Correct Answer Major form of lead used in paint before 1950, it was the only white paint used in European paintings until 19th century, heavy consistency, fastest drying white paint.What does Presumed Lead-Based Paint refer to? - Correct Answer Residential structures built prior to January 1, 1978/ also called Target Housing.Supplied Air Respirators (SARs) must use what grade air and what hose length? - Correct Answer Grade D Air (oxygen level greater than or equal to 19.5% and less than or equal to 23.5%), hose must not exceed 300 feet in length.When do you replace coveralls daily? When do you replace them weekly? - Correct Answer Weekly replacement if exposed to 50 - 200 μg/m3. Daily Replacement if exposed to more than 200 μg/m3.When are you required to wear a respirator? - Correct Answer When an employee's exposure to lead exceeds the PEL, work operations for which engineering controls and work practices are not sufficient enough to reduce levels to below PEL, when an employee requests a respirator, and when respirators are used for interim practices during trigger tasks.EPA/HUD definition of Lead-Based Paint? - Correct Answer ≥ 0.5% by weight or ≥ 1.0 mg/cm2 or ≥ 5000 ppm What year was the amount of lead that could be in certain coatings restricted to a lead concentration of less than ≤ 0.06% lead by weight (≤ 600 ppm) if the coating was applied to surfaces that could be accessible to children/the public and who by? - Correct Answer 1978; Consumer Product Safety Commission. 1 / 4
What year was the allowable amount of lead further reduced if applied to surfaces that could be accessible to children/the public and what was it lowered to? - Correct Answer 2009; ≤0.009% lead by weight (≤ 90ppm) Who began phase out of lead gasoline for consumer use? What year and what act officially banned it? - Correct Answer EPA; 1996 Clean Air Act.In October (what year), the U.S. Congress passed a LAW called the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act also known as ____. - Correct Answer 1992, Tile X or Title 10.Title X lists 6 situations where lead is a hazard, what are they? - Correct Answer Lead dust from lead- based paint (1) which is damaged or deteriorated, (2) on any friction surface, (3) on any impact surface. (4) Lead-painted surfaces that a child could chew. Lead-contaminated (5) dust anywhere in the home or (6) soil that is above the acceptable standards set by the EPA.When does the EPA/HUD Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule (RRP) under the authority of the Toxic Substances Control Act apply, and what year was it introduced/enforced? - Correct Answer Addresses hazards caused by renovation, repair and painting work activities in any residential housing or child- occupied facility constructed before 1978 (target housing). It does this by establishing requirements for training/certifying workers, accrediting training providers etc. 2008/2010.Proposition 65 requires what? - Correct Answer Requires California to publish a list of chemicals known to cause cancer or birth defects or reproductive harm (lead).When is a clearance required? - Correct Answer All permanent abatement activities and temporary abatement when a child with elevated blood levels. Outdoor is usually visual unless it's soil (must pass clearance).Abatement for public and residential buildings which is designed to reduce lead paint or lead hazards for a minimum of twenty years must be conducted by? - Correct Answer Certified Lead Supervisor or Certified Lead Worker.Abatement for public and residential buildings which is designed to reduce lead paint or lead hazards for less than twenty years must be conducted by? - Correct Answer According to procedures specified in HUD Chapter 11: Interim Controls, "Guidelines for the Evaluation and Control of Lead- Based Paint Hazards in Housing". 2 / 4
What can a certified Worker do? How long is the course? State exam required yes or no? - Correct Answer Perform Abatement, 3-day course, no state exam required What can a certified Supervisor do? How long is the course? State exam required yes or no? - Correct Answer Perform Abatement and Supervise Abatement, 5-day course, must pass exam.What can a certified Project Monitor do? How long is the course? State exam required yes or no? - Correct Answer Perform Clearance Inspections and Write Abatement Plans, 5-day course, must pass exam.What can a certified Inspector/Assessor do? How long is the course? State exam required yes or no?
- Correct Answer Perform Inspections and/or Risk Assessments and Clearance Inspections, 5-day
- Correct Answer Take Samples only, 1-day course, no state exam.
course, must pass exam What can a certified Sampling Technician do? How long is the course? State exam required yes or no?
What is California Senate Bill 460 (4 things)? Effective when? - Correct Answer Made it illegal to create a lead hazard. Requires any lead hazard in California to be abated. Gives CDPH and other enforcement agencies authority to issue cease and desist from any activity creating a lead hazard.Requires labs to report blood-lead tests conducted on California to CDPH. Effective January 1, 2003.Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL)? - Correct Answer 50 μg/m3, 8-hour TWA OSHA Action Level (AL)? - Correct Answer 30 μg/m3 calculated as an 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA) Result needed to pass surface wipe sampling clearance? - Correct Answer < 10 μg/ft2 Cal/OSHA Class I Trigger Task includes what tasks? Minimum level of respiratory protection? - Correct Answer Manual demolition, scraping and sanding, heat gun, spray painting with lead paint. Half-face respirator.Cal/OSHA Class II Trigger Task includes what tasks? Minimum level of respiratory protection? - Correct Answer Lead burning, using lead containing mortar, manual demo, rivet busting on lead painted surfaces, abrasive blasting enclosure movement and removal. Full-face respirator. 3 / 4
Cal/OSHA Class III Trigger Task includes what tasks? Minimum level of respiratory protection? - Correct Answer Abrasive blasting, welding, cutting, torch burning. Full-face PAPR or SAR respirator.How to adjust PEL when an employee is exposed to lead for more than 8 hours? - Correct Answer 400 divided by the hours worked An employee exposed above the action level (30 μg/m3) on any one day shall be offered what kind of medical surveillance? - Correct Answer Initial Medical Surveillance An employee exposed to lead above the action level (30 μg/m3) for more than 30 days in any consecutive 12 months shall be offered __ scheduled medical surveillance. - Correct Answer Ongoing Medical Surveillance Blood Lead Level = < 40 μg/dL, Action? - Correct Answer At least every 2 months for the first 6 months and every 6 months thereafter.Blood Lead Level = 40 μg/dL - 50 μg/dL, Action? - Correct Answer At least every two months until 2 consecutive blood analysis are < 40 μg/dL According to OSHA, what happens when an employee has two BLL tests ≥ 50 μg/dL 2 weeks apart? - Correct Answer Medical Removal OSHA return to work from medical removal? - Correct Answer 2 consecutive BLL analysis < 40 μg/dL, 30 days apart.Employer must remove an employee from lead work at or above the action level whenever the employee's BLL is at or above? - Correct Answer ≥ 50 μg/dL (on two consecutive tests within two weeks) What is Final Medical Determination? - Correct Answer Written medical opinion to remove an employee from lead work at or above the action level The employer shall provide an employee up to __ months of medical removal protection benefits on each occasion that an employee is removed from exposure to lead. - Correct Answer 18 months (or the end of the job)
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