Lead exposure control plan template
A complete written plan for protecting workers, and the families they go home to, from lead, in 14 editions: one for each province and territory and one for federally regulated workplaces. Each edition sets out the law that applies there, with pinpoint citations. Every purchase includes all 14, in English and in French: 28 editable Word files you make your own.
A look inside
Sample pages from the plan, marked and cut short. Your copy has no watermark.
What’s in the plan
1. Purpose, scope and the law
What the plan does and the inorganic lead it covers, the work and places it applies to and where lead is usually found, the law that applies in your jurisdiction with pinpoint citations (section 1.3), and how it fits your program.
2. Responsibilities
The employer, the plan administrator, the person who assesses and monitors, supervisors, everyone who does lead work, the committee or representative, contractors, owners and other employers, and the physician and health monitoring provider.
3. The hazard
How lead enters the body, its health effects, the signs and symptoms to watch for, the work where exposure occurs, and your inventory of lead.
4. Risk assessment
When and how a task is assessed and who assesses it, the limits measured against, exposure categories, and what triggers a new assessment.
5. Controls
The hierarchy of controls, from elimination and substitution to engineering, administrative controls and PPE, their limits, and the controls for each task.
6. Safe work procedures
Rules for all lead work, identifying lead before work starts and setting up the work area, then 11 procedures: paint removal by hand and with power tools, abrasive blasting of steel structures, torch cutting and welding, demolition and renovation, soldering and melting lead, batteries, firing ranges, radiator repair, glazes and enamels, and cleanup and waste.
7. Respiratory protection and PPE
Choosing a respirator, fit testing and a clean seal, using and caring for respirators, and protective clothing.
8. Hygiene facilities and decontamination
Hygiene rules, the facilities you provide, decontamination on leaving the work area, laundering, protecting families from take-home lead, and clean areas with surface checks.
9. Exposure monitoring
What is monitored, who monitors and how, when, acting on air results, surface wipe results and clearance, and sharing and keeping results.
10. Health monitoring
Who is tested, the physician and the laboratory, the testing schedule, a table of blood lead levels and what you do at each, medical removal and return to work, pregnancy and reproductive health, and privacy of health records.
11. Education and training
Who is trained and when, what the training covers, refresher training and records.
12. Emergencies and exposure incidents
What counts as an exposure incident, immediate steps, cleaning up a spill or release, first aid, reporting and investigation.
13. Records, communication, consultation and review
The records you keep, sharing the plan, consulting your committee or representative, and reviewing the plan.
Appendix A. Regulatory cross-reference
Every provision of your jurisdiction’s law the plan is written to meet, in plain words, with the section that meets it and whether an inspector will also want your records. Each entry links to its section.
Appendix B. Forms
8 print-ready forms, each with a form code: the lead task risk assessment, the work area set-up checklist, the hygiene and decontamination checklist, the air and surface monitoring record, the blood lead monitoring tracker, the training and fit test record, the incident and overexposure report and the plan review record.
One plan, 14 editions
Each plan is written once and fitted to the law of each of Canada’s 14 jurisdictions: the ten provinces, the three territories and federally regulated workplaces under the Canada Labour Code. Each edition takes the name its law gives the document, and its own limits, terms and citations.
Every purchase includes all 14, each in English and in French: 28 Word files. The French editions follow the English section for section and form for form, and their cross-reference matches row for row. Laws published only in English keep their English titles.
Written to the law where you work
Section 1.3 of each edition sets out the law that applies there, with pinpoint citations: what that law calls the plan, the exposure limit and any short-term limit, and what the law adds, such as medical surveillance, blood lead testing, hygiene facilities or records. Appendix A lists every provision the plan is written to meet, in plain words, with the section that meets it and whether an inspector will also want to see your records. Each entry links to its section.
Every legal reference was checked against the official texts between September 30 and October 3, 2026, and each edition lists its sources and the date each was checked. A template can’t make you compliant on its own, and we don’t claim it does: the plan works once a qualified person adapts it to your work.
Who it is for
Employers whose work disturbs, heats, cuts or melts lead: repainting and renovating older buildings, blasting and recoating steel bridges, towers and tanks, torch cutting painted steel, soldering, battery work, radiator repair, firing ranges, and glazes and enamels.
It covers inorganic lead: metallic lead, alloys such as solder, and compounds such as those in lead paint, batteries and glazes. Organic lead compounds such as tetraethyl lead need their own assessment.
Lifetime updates
When the law changes, we publish a new edition and email everyone who bought the template, on its own or in the Core 5 exposure control plans. Every update is free, for as long as we publish it.
Version 1.0 October 3, 2026
- First edition, in 14 jurisdiction editions (one for each province and territory, and one for federally regulated workplaces), each in English and French.
- Every legal reference checked against the official texts between September 30 and October 3, 2026. Each edition lists its sources and the date each was checked.
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Questions
Which edition do I use?
The one for the law that covers the workplace: the province or territory where the work is done, or the federal edition if your business is federally regulated under Part II of the Canada Labour Code (for example, interprovincial trucking, airlines, railways, banks and telecommunications). If you are not sure which law covers you, confirm it with your regulator before you rely on an edition. All 14 come with every purchase, in English and French, so you never pay twice for the right one.
Is this legal advice? Will it make us compliant?
No. It is a template, not legal advice: a complete plan written to the law with every requirement cited, as a starting point. The plan only works once a qualified person adapts it to your work (your tasks, your materials and the exposure your own assessment finds) and you put it in place and follow it, so no template can promise compliance. If you want help with that, our team does it too.
Does it cover my province’s own rules?
Yes. Section 1.3 of each edition sets out the law that applies there, with pinpoint citations: what that law calls this document, the exposure limit, and what the law adds to the plan, such as monitoring, health checks, notices, records or training. Where the law changes something in the plan’s general text, section 1.3 says what and where. Appendix A then lists every provision the plan is written to meet, with the section of the plan that meets it.
What if we work in more than one province?
Use the edition for each place you work: every purchase includes all 14. Each edition is complete on its own, and they share the same sections and form codes, so crews moving between provinces work to the same plan and only what the law changes is different.
What format is it in, and can I edit it?
Editable Microsoft Word (.docx) files on US Letter pages: 28 of them, one for each of the 14 jurisdictions in English and in French. Type your company name once and desktop Word puts it on the cover, in every header and through the text. Shaded “Tailor” notes say what to check or change in each section, and highlighted placeholders mark every name, date and place you fill in. The files also open in Google Docs and Word on the web, where you use Find and replace to put your company name in.
What happens when the law changes?
We update the plan, and you get every update free for as long as we publish it: lifetime updates at no extra charge, for all 14 editions in both languages. We email you when a new edition is ready, with what changed and a link to download it.
Can I use it for more than one company?
Each purchase is licensed to one company. Consultants setting up programs for several clients should contact us.
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