CDPH Lead Inspector/Assessor
California State Exam Questions And All
Correct Answers.
Atomic Symbol for Lead and origin Latin word? - Answer Pb; plumbum meaning "liquid silver"
What form of lead is mostly used in the United States? - Answer #1 Form: Lead Acid Batteries,
#2 Form: Ammunition, #3 Form: Paints & Coatings
Why is/was lead added to paint? - Answer Durability. Other qualities include: prevents mold
growth & corrosion, soundproofing, quick drying.
What is white lead? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - Answer ≥ 0.5% by weight or ≥ 1.0 mg/cm2 or ≥
5000 ppm
,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? - 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? - 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 ____. - Answer 1992, Tile X or Title 10.
Title X lists 6 situations where lead is a hazard, what are they? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - Answer According to procedures
specified in HUD Chapter 11: Interim Controls, "Guidelines for the Evaluation and Control of
Lead-Based Paint Hazards in Housing".
,What can a certified Supervisor do? How long is the course? State exam required yes or no? -
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? - 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? - Answer Perform Inspections and/or Risk Assessments and Clearance Inspections, 5-day
course, must pass exam
What can a certified Sampling Technician do? How long is the course? State exam required yes
or no? - Answer Take Samples only, 1-day course, no state exam.
What is California Senate Bill 460 (4 things)? Effective when? - 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)? - Answer 50 μg/m3, 8-hour TWA
OSHA Action Level (AL)? - Answer 30 μg/m3 calculated as an 8-hour time-weighted average
(TWA)
Result needed to pass surface wipe sampling clearance? - Answer < 10 μg/ft2
Cal/OSHA Class I Trigger Task includes what tasks? Minimum level of respiratory protection? -
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? -
Answer Lead burning, using lead containing mortar, manual demo, rivet busting on lead
painted surfaces, abrasive blasting enclosure movement and removal. Full-face respirator.
Cal/OSHA Class III Trigger Task includes what tasks? Minimum level of respiratory protection? -
, An employee exposed above the action level (30 μg/m3) on any one day shall be offered what
kind of medical surveillance? - 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. - Answer Ongoing
Medical Surveillance
Blood Lead Level = < 40 μg/dL, Action? - 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? - 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? - Answer Medical Removal
OSHA return to work from medical removal? - 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? - Answer ≥ 50 μg/dL (on two consecutive tests within two
weeks)
What is Final Medical Determination? - 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. - Answer 18
months (or the end of the job)
The employer shall provide what kind of training at least annually for each employee who is
subject to lead exposure at or above the Action Level. - Answer Awareness Training
The employer shall ensure that all employees and supervisors who are engaged in lead related
construction work and have been shown to be exposed to lead at or above the PEL meet what
California State Exam Questions And All
Correct Answers.
Atomic Symbol for Lead and origin Latin word? - Answer Pb; plumbum meaning "liquid silver"
What form of lead is mostly used in the United States? - Answer #1 Form: Lead Acid Batteries,
#2 Form: Ammunition, #3 Form: Paints & Coatings
Why is/was lead added to paint? - Answer Durability. Other qualities include: prevents mold
growth & corrosion, soundproofing, quick drying.
What is white lead? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - Answer ≥ 0.5% by weight or ≥ 1.0 mg/cm2 or ≥
5000 ppm
,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? - 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? - 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 ____. - Answer 1992, Tile X or Title 10.
Title X lists 6 situations where lead is a hazard, what are they? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - Answer According to procedures
specified in HUD Chapter 11: Interim Controls, "Guidelines for the Evaluation and Control of
Lead-Based Paint Hazards in Housing".
,What can a certified Supervisor do? How long is the course? State exam required yes or no? -
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? - 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? - Answer Perform Inspections and/or Risk Assessments and Clearance Inspections, 5-day
course, must pass exam
What can a certified Sampling Technician do? How long is the course? State exam required yes
or no? - Answer Take Samples only, 1-day course, no state exam.
What is California Senate Bill 460 (4 things)? Effective when? - 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)? - Answer 50 μg/m3, 8-hour TWA
OSHA Action Level (AL)? - Answer 30 μg/m3 calculated as an 8-hour time-weighted average
(TWA)
Result needed to pass surface wipe sampling clearance? - Answer < 10 μg/ft2
Cal/OSHA Class I Trigger Task includes what tasks? Minimum level of respiratory protection? -
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? -
Answer Lead burning, using lead containing mortar, manual demo, rivet busting on lead
painted surfaces, abrasive blasting enclosure movement and removal. Full-face respirator.
Cal/OSHA Class III Trigger Task includes what tasks? Minimum level of respiratory protection? -
, An employee exposed above the action level (30 μg/m3) on any one day shall be offered what
kind of medical surveillance? - 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. - Answer Ongoing
Medical Surveillance
Blood Lead Level = < 40 μg/dL, Action? - 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? - 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? - Answer Medical Removal
OSHA return to work from medical removal? - 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? - Answer ≥ 50 μg/dL (on two consecutive tests within two
weeks)
What is Final Medical Determination? - 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. - Answer 18
months (or the end of the job)
The employer shall provide what kind of training at least annually for each employee who is
subject to lead exposure at or above the Action Level. - Answer Awareness Training
The employer shall ensure that all employees and supervisors who are engaged in lead related
construction work and have been shown to be exposed to lead at or above the PEL meet what
