Sentences with phrase «lead hazard risks»

Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz (at podium) is flanked by Congressman Brian Higgins, Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein, and community lead - abatement partners to announce the «Wipe Out Lead» billboard campaign and spotlight a $ 3 million federal lead remediation grant coming to Erie County to help identify & mitigate lead hazard risks in local homes.

The $ 3 million grant was awarded in addition to another $ 400,000 in federal funds that will be used to perform assessments in up to 100 Erie County residences, identifying and mitigating lead hazard risks.

Not exact matches

Only 93 homes have been visited by a contractor to conduct inspections and risk assessments for potential lead paint hazards.

That's a fraction of the 85,000 homes in Buffalo at risk for lead paint hazards, 12,000 of which have documented lead problems where children under the age of six live.

Some 85,000 units in the city are considered at risk of lead hazards.

A risk assessment is an on - site investigation of residential dwellings to discover any lead based paint hazards.

All lead hazards identified during the risk assessment must be corrected whether or not the property is further enrolled into the program.

While those numbers represent a degree of progress, consider there are 85,000 housing units in Buffalo at risk for lead hazards.

«Protecting our children from the hazards of lead common in pre-1978 housing has been a high priority of my administration; and while it may take years to provide adequate lead safe housing in our community, there are measures we can take now to reduce children's risks of lead poisoning, including insisting that rental property owners replace or repair older windows and chipping and peeling lead paint and ensuring the work is performed by EPA certified contractors using lead safe work practices,» Picente said.

Some 85,000 homes and apartments in Buffalo are considered at risk for lead paint hazards.

That grant program has addressed lead hazards in just 1 percent of the city's total at - risk housing units since its inception in 2009.

«The fact that the hazard quotients of risk were so high through only one exposure route is concerning,» said Robin Taylor Wilson, Penn State College of Medicine professor and lead epidemiologist for the study.

A new report details the factors leading to the disaster, the hazards that accompany landslides and steps that can be taken to mitigate landslide consequences and risk in the Pacific Northwest, with the aim of preventing future tragedies.

Led by Julie Demuth, a scientist from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the study, «Explicating experience: Development of a valid scale of past hazard experience for tornadoes,» characterized and measured people's past tornado experiences to determine their impact on the perceived risks of future tornadoes.

«Assessing regional earthquake risk and hazards in the age of exascale: Researchers lead development of a workflow to accurately predict ground movement and its impact on structures.»

Ultimately, we'd like to have motion estimates on the order of 5 - 10 hertz to accurately capture the dynamic response for a wide range of infrastructure,» says David McCallen, who leads an ECP - supported effort called High Performance, Multidisciplinary Simulations for Regional Scale Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessments.

In comments on the 2019 budget proposal, the GOP majority on the Science panel led by Smith suggested that EPA's funding should be contingent on the administrator's «requiring that all scientific and technical information and data relied on to support a risk, exposure, or hazard assessment; criteria document; standard; limitation; regulation; regulatory impact analysis; or guidance issued by the EPA is made publicly available.»

These observations provide a conceptual framework for better anticipating monogenetic eruptions in similar settings and magmatic fluxes and should lead to improved strategies for mitigation of their associated hazards and risks.

A combination of these two leads to high risk, hazard trading.

Scientists are also confident that heating of the deep oceans and melting of land ice will lead to continued sea level rise, which will heighten the risk of coastal flooding and the severity of coastal hazards during stormy episodes.

In this role, she leads development and research analytics for natural hazard and climate - risk products and solutions.

Young drivers are at a greater risk of having accidents on the road because they have less experience looking for signs of potential hazards that can lead to accidents.

Of course, in addition to providing the potential for financial success, business ownership can lead to losses due to hazards such as fire, severe weather, liability lawsuits, and other industry - specific risks.

These kinds of systems are relatively affordable and will lead to much lower risks of losses from hazards like theft an even fire.

Safety Trainers assess workplaces for hazards that may lead to injury then communicate their findings to other employees in an effort to lessen risk.

Occupational Health and Safety Specialist COLUMBUS TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES, Binghamton, NY (6/2002 to Present) • Assess existing health and safety programs and tweak them to meet the dynamic needs of the company • Plan and implement new or advanced health and safety programs to maintain steadily safe environments • Develop and provide training and instructions to employees and the management to ensure that they are abreast of safety hazards • Evaluate and advise on the impact of both emergent and existing issues and suggest control methods • Conduct audits and inspections to determine the extent of risks and put in place risk prevention and mitigation processes • Perform safety related incident investigation to determine cause and effect and develop corrective measures • Oversee health and safety programs to assure compliance with the company's procedures and protocols • Promote and lead behavioral based safety practices to strengthen company safety culture

Create Resume Joshua Friedman Professional Summary Industrial Hygienist studied in the science of looking for potential hazards and stressors in work environments that can lead to illness, injury, impairment and other risk factors.

The act requires that property owners or their agents in transactions involving homes built prior to 1978 disclose any known lead - based paint on the premises and provide a pamphlet describing the risks of on lead - based paint hazards to prospective buyers and renters.