Documents in Health and Safety

Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home – This guide to lead hazards in your home was produced by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. It gives you Simple Steps To Protect Your Family from Lead Hazards and teaches you how to identify lead hazards and how to minimize your risk of exposure.

Facts about Lead – This site provides information about lead, lead hazards, and provides some simple steps to protect your family.

Healthy indoor air for Americas Homes – This national consumer education program is concerned with improving the quality of indoor air in our homes. This website has a slew of information on your home's air quality from biological pollutants to lead dust.

Protect your family from CO poisoning – This government website by the EPA provides you with all the information you need to keep yourself and your family safe from CARBON MONOXIDE poisoning. Here you can also find information on many other possible air pollutants in your home.

Carbon Monoxide Law of MA – The Massachusetts Association of Realtors informs the consumer about Carbon Monoxide in the home and what the new law requires of all MA homeowners.

Asbestos information and resources – This site by the MA Department of Environmental Protection offers homeowners and home buyers necessary information on Asbestos and the regulations dealing with asbestos in a home.

Create a healthy home. – This guide by the Center for Ecological Technology helps you identify hazardous waste products in and around your home and teaches you how to keep them away from your home as well as despose of them.

Asbestos in your home? – This document by the US EPA will help you understand asbestos: what it is, its health effects, where it could be in your home, and what to do about it if you do find asbestos in your home.

Household Mold – The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has prepared consumer information to help you understand what mold is, how it can grow in your home and the routine maintenance procedures you can follow to prevent mold problems, plus methods of removing mold already in your home.

How to work safely with lead paint. – HUD’s informational flyer teaches you the facts about working safely with existing LEAD paint.