About the CLPPB - Background

California Statutes Governing Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch
California Lead Poisoning Prevention Regulations

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, effecitve 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 Statutues Governing Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch
	Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act (California Health & Safety Code 105275 to 105310) Establishes the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program within the California Department of Health Services and requires them to compile information, identify target areas, and analyze information to design and implement a program of medical follow-up and environmental abatement to reduce childhood lead exposure.
	Accreditation of Training Providers and Certification of Individuals (California Health & Safety Code 105250)
	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 124125 to 124165)
	Declared childhood lead exposure as the most significant childhood environmental health problem in the state. Mandates medical laboratories to report cases with elevated blood lead levels. Mandates childhood lead poisoning prevention activities be established by the Department of Health Services, including identification and selection of target areas for childhood lead screening programs, field trials of alternative lead abatement technologies, implementaion of a program to identify and follow-up high risk children, provision of environmental abatement and continued programs to reduce the incidence of excessive childhood lead exposure.
	Lead Exposure Screening (California Health & Safety Code 1367.3 to 1374.15)
	Requires blood lead screening for children covered by health insurance.
	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)
	Implements a lead poisoning prevention and protection program for California schools to survey and ascertain risk factors that predict lead contamintaion in public schools. Establishes guidelines for notification and advisement regarding survey findings, utilzation of state certified workers for activities to remediate lead-hazards and prohibits the use of potential sources of lead contamination in public schools.
	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 108585)
	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 acsertain lead poisoning sources, conduct investiagtions of take-home exposure cases, train employees,and health professionals regarding occupational lead poisoning prevention, and recommended means for lead poisoning prevention.

California Lead Poisoning Prevention Regulations

	Title 17 California Code of Regulations, Section 35001 et seq.
	Accreditation of training providers & interim certification of individuals engaged in lead-related construction work.

	Title 8 California Code of Regulations, Section 1532.1 et seq.
	Cal/OSHA construction saftey orders, Lead UNDER CONSTRUCTION Privacy Policy