Begun in January 2000, Lapp is a program at Westside Health Authority, which is focused on improving awareness about lead poisoning by training six local youth as community lead educators. Lead is a heavy, gray metal that is poisonous if it enters the body.
People use it for various reasons such as painting.
Lead is likely to be found in lead-based paint that is peeling, chipping, chalking, or cracking. These paint chips can be ingested by small children. Lead dust can form when this paint is dry scraped, dry sanded, heated, or through simple deterioration of the paint. This contaminated dust can very easily be inhaled into the body. Lead is especially dangerous to children.