Anyone who is tasked to remove lead paint, or who conducts any other maintenance or home improvement activity which creates a hazard by disturbing lead paint, should follow the safe practices which are included in these regulations.

Constraints

The paper-based feedback from the field must be re-inputted after the fact by data entry staff, thus incurring undue expense and delay in the process.

Inspectors are forced to document their observations on paper-based files.

The existing paper-based inspection forms must be constantly updated, reviewed, printed and distributed to inspectors before they travel to a job site.  This is very labor intensive.

If the state mandates new regulations, inspectors must be informed and trained, old forms must be destroyed and then the new documents must be updated and reprinted.

Because field information must be inputted after the fact, these activities provide an unnecessary limitation on the city’s management performance.

What to do?

Among the many choices are, (1) Continue to maintain/modify the paper-based system (2) Hire more inspectors (3) fast-track an affordable solution that could be interfaced with the code-enforcement management system and provide immediate relief and cost savings.

The fast-track solution is TaskCaddy, the compliance tool addendum to the Project and Work Order Management System.  

Features include…

Ability to utilize electronic versions of all code enforcement forms in the field.

Ability to use the current version of the codes because there will only be one version, stored on the computer server, and available for use by all.