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Baker Environmental Consulting, Inc. (BEC), a small business enterprise with real-world hands-on experience, knowledge and expertise gained from being involved in the environmental industry since 1976, is pleased to announce that we have been certified and accredited by the States of Kansas & Missouri to provide EPA Model Curriculum training for all persons involved in all lead-based paint (LBP) related work activities.

BEC has recently been awarded contracts with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) to provide KDHE accredited Lead Hazard Control/Abatement Training and Lead-Safe Work Practices (LSWP) training using HUD Approved curriculum. KDHE will sponsor free LSWP classes throughout the State of Kansas for any person wishing to receive this professional training.

Additionally, BEC has been awarded a contract with the Kansas City, MO Health Department to provide MO Department of Health & Senior Services (DHSS) accredited Lead Hazard Control/Abatement Training for Workers and Supervisors.

BEC Staff have received and assisted in providing HUD's own Lead-Safe Work Practices (LSWP) "Train-The-Trainer" training courses. We are proud to announce that our LSWP Training Manual and Course is one of only a few in the nation to have been formally approved by HUD. This LSWP training is required under the Federal Lead-Safe Housing Rule (Section 1012/1013 of Title X). To ensure that you are getting the best available and most accurate information that is possible, you should obtain professional LSWP Training only from professionally experienced training providers, with real world hands-on experience, who have also attended and successfully completed the appropriate "Train The Trainer" courses. You should seek to receive training only from professional training firms that have training course curriculum that has been approved by HUD, EPA, KDHE, DHSS, and/or other pertinent regulatory agencies. Click here for more information.

Mold Investigation & Consulting Services

At the request of local, state and private agencies, Baker Environmental Consulting, Inc. (BEC) has been providing professional Mold Investigations now since the latter part of 2001. Just as we are known to be the predominant experts in the Lead Hazard Control Industry, we are now being referred to as "the Gurus of Mold".

Our investigative techniques are a result of hands-on experience, knowledge and expertise acquired from being in the environmental industry since 1976. We couple our unequaled expertise with the tried and true investigation protocol and criteria established by state and federal agencies. Our investigative reports have been heralded as "exceptionally useful and truly functional reports". Every report developed by BEC not only clearly details any problems identified, but we provide our clients with real-world solutions to take care of any problems identified.

Federal Lead-Based Paint Requirements for Pre-1978 Residential Housing

The HUD Regulations (24 CFR, Part 35) that were published in the Federal Register on September 15, 1999 became fully effective on January 10, 2002. This Rule is known as the HUD Lead-Safe Housing Rule and is a requirement mandated by Title X (Section 1012/1013). Click here for more information.

ICF Consulting, by way of a contract with HUD, is offering a series of two (2) day classes across the nation that assists persons in implementing the Section 1012/1013 regulations form Title X. The program training, entitled "Making It Work", is an exceptionally effective and fully functional follow-on training course to the first series of courses that were conducted regarding the Section 1012/1013 regulations. These regulations that were published in the Federal Register on September 15, 1999, have an impact on each and every pre-1978 federally owned or federally assisted residential housing unit in the entire nation. These regulations seek to make the federal government the "model landlord" by requiring activities that identify and control LBP and lead hazards. Call the HUD Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control at: (202) 755-1785 or ICF Consulting at: (703) 934-3961 to get more information about this very important training opportunity.

Click here for a document containing a list of Kansas and Missouri prerequisites to becoming licensed to perform lead activities work.

Through a Joint Venture work effort, BEC has developed a Lead-Based Paint Inspection report and a Lead Hazard Risk Assessment report that is being used by HUD and ICF Consulting as a model report for how Inspection and Risk Assessment reports should be written. We have also developed an Operations and Maintenance (O & M) Work Plan that HUD is using as a Model and encouraging all HUD associated agencies across the nation to use. We are proud of our work effort and even more proud that HUD and ICF have chosen our reports as "the shining examples"!

Earth & Family, L.L.C. is offering for sale software to assist persons who want to perform LBP Inspections, Lead Hazard Risk Assessments and Lead Hazard Control/Abatement Monitoring. The three (3) separate software packages provide numerous examples of immediately useful information, several example reports (the same ones being used by HUD as Model reports), standard operating procedures (SOP), very helpful checklists, and even offers suggestions for persons to consider when providing or conducting these lead related work activities. The three (3) software packages have been heralded as "the most useful and truly functional LBP activity assistance software that has ever been developed".

Please contact Richard Baker at (913) 541-0220 or (877) 603-LEAD for pricing and purchasing information. Discounts are available for members of LEHA, for governmental agencies, for non-profit agencies, and for purchases of multiple software copies.