Lead Program

The Division of Occupational Safety's (DOS) Lead Program seeks to reduce the incidence and the elevated nature of occupational lead exposures and thereby lower the adult blood lead levels (BLL) in Massachusetts, in concert with the BLL goal set by the CDC in "Healthy People 2000". The Occupational Blood Lead Registry, housed within the program, tracks elevated blood lead levels, provides educational counseling and guidance to workers, and through its medical consultant offers advice to physicians on the medical management of lead poisoning.