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Health Promotion Practice, Vol. 5, No. 3, 297-305 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1524839903257764
© 2004 Society for Public Health Education

Can Half-Day Trainings Motivate Small Contractors to Address Lead Safety?

David Harrington, MPH

Peter Scholz, MPH, CIH

Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, Occupational Health Branch, California Department of Health Services in Oakland, California.

Geoffrey Lomax, DrPH

Environmental Health Investigations Branch, California Department of Health Services in Oakland, California.

Hans Stahlschmidt

Berkeley, California.

Jim Vannoy, MPH

Public Health Institute in the Occupational Health Branch, California Department of Health Services in Oakland, California.

Barbara Materna, PhD, CIH

Oakland, California.

There is a real need to educate small painting and remodeling contractors about lead-safe work practices to protect the health of occupants (especially small children) and employees. From 1996 to 2000, 34 half-day lead awareness trainings were held throughout California to increase contractors’ use of lead-safe practices. Educational methods included focusing on best practices, utilizing a peer educator, and working with stakeholders to do outreach to this hard-to-reach audience. We report on the evaluation of 18 of these seminars where we found that 30% to 49% of the interviewed contractors began doing many of the lead-safe work practices after attendance. We conclude that this program can have a modest impact in areas that contractors are more familiar with; new areas not part of their experience do not fare as well. However, without a more integrated public health educational and enforcement strategy, educational efforts such as ours can have only a limited impact.

Key Words: occupational health • small business • lead poisoning • lead-safe best practices • peer educator • intervention


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