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Safety Sunday: Staying Lead Safe in Your Home

In the last three Safety Sunday articles, we covered how Homeowners can perform Lead Safe Renovations on older houses utilizing the 3 C’s. While the EPA & many others would have you believe that renovations on houses built before 1978 is the main cause of lead poisoning, the fact of the matter is that the […]

Filed Under: Around the home Tagged With: 3C Prevention, Lead Safety, Safety Sunday April 24, 2011 By SLS

Safety Sunday: Lead Safe Work Practices for Home Owner’s – The Final C

In our last few articles we outlined what the principles of the 3 C’s of prevention, followed up with two articles on the first two principles are as they relate to homeowners who might be working on their home with lead in it. The first article dealt with  control; controlling access, the dust created, the […]

Filed Under: Around the home Tagged With: 3C Prevention, Lead Safety, Safety Sunday April 17, 2011 By SLS

Safety Sunday: Lead Safe Work Practices for Home Owner’s – Containment

In our last few Safety Sunday articles, we introduces the 3 C’s concept as it relates to Safety and Prevention and specifically focused on how one can use this concept when doing renovations in any home, especially older ones that may contain lead. In our very last article, we went over the First C; namely […]

Filed Under: Around the home Tagged With: 3C Prevention, Lead Safety, Safety Sunday April 10, 2011 By SLS

Safety Sunday: Lead Safe Work Practices for Home Owner’s – The First C

In last week’s Safety Sunday Article we introduced the concept of the 3 C’s as they apply to Safety and Prevention. As we mentioned in that article, we are going to delve into each one of those & see how it applies to one working on their houses that may contain lead. In this case, […]

Filed Under: Around the home Tagged With: 3C Prevention, Lead Safety, Safety Sunday April 3, 2011 By SLS

Safety Sunday: The 3 C’s of Prevention

In many ways, the art or science of building or remodeling ones house is built around one action – Prevention. Prevention is quite simply an action or actions one uses to stop or hinder something from happening.  For one quick example, we flash & detail windows properly to prevent water from entering the structure, which […]

Filed Under: Safety Third? Tagged With: 3C Prevention, Safety Sunday March 27, 2011 By SLS

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