Ohio-licensed lead risk assessor · Cleveland and Northeast Ohio
About Guardian Lead Safety
Guardian Lead Safety and Environmental Services, LLC is a small Greater Cleveland firm. William M. Barker performs or leads every risk assessment, lead-based paint inspection and clearance exam, writes the report, and answers the phone. On larger multi-unit projects, other Ohio-licensed lead risk assessors work alongside him. The work is organized so that an owner, a property manager, a contractor and a City reviewer can each pick up the report and find what they need.
Questions about a property? Call or text William at (216) 800-8259.
The person doing the work
William works the same way on every job: chain of custody for every sample, documented results, and review before a report is released. In Cleveland rentals that means care in how a dust wipe is taken, how a photograph is labeled, and how a finding is written. He holds Ohio lead risk assessor license LA 10055.
How the report is built
A Guardian report starts with the field record: the Ohio and HUD assessment forms completed on site, a labeled photograph of every component examined, laboratory results for dust and soil samples under chain of custody, public property records, and XRF data when a paint inspection is part of the work.
Software we built, which we call George, organizes that material into the report. It inventories the components in each photograph, proposes the hazard list, and reads the handwritten field forms. The licensed assessor reviews the materials, the completeness, the hazard list and the child-exposure findings at checkpoints that cannot be skipped, and signs the report. The result is a component-level report with a photo appendix, a hazard-control options section, and a City application cover sheet, delivered 14 to 21 days after the visit. Prices are on the pricing page.
George also prepares reports for other licensed lead inspectors and risk assessors from their own field data. Those inspectors review and sign their reports the same way William signs his.
What you can hand to your contractor
Every visit ends with more than the formal report. You receive a written summary in plain language, a shared photo album, and a separate punch list written for the Renovation, Repair and Painting contractor: the repair groups, the component boundaries, and the cleanup that has to be complete before the next step. Owners use it to get priced bids and to check the work. It is scoped so the contractor can field-verify and add to it; it is not a bid or a means-and-methods plan.
Working with your RRP contractor
When an EPA Lead-Safe Certified RRP firm does the repair work, we work with them directly. Where the work is abatement rather than renovation, it is done by an Ohio-licensed lead-abatement contractor. We share the punch list and photographs, answer their questions about the findings, and prepare the EPA RRP compliance record for them to review and sign, so the paperwork the City and EPA expect is not left to the end. The contractor signs it and remains the responsible party for the work; Guardian is not an RRP firm and does no renovation. When the work is done, we come back for the clearance exam if the project calls for one.
Tools and resources in one place
Owners told us the hardest part was not the assessment but finding out where a property stands. So glses.com carries the tools we use ourselves: the Cleveland Lead Safe Certificate lookup and property record finder, which read the City’s open data live; the Rental Owner Toolkit; contact directories for Local Agents in Charge, RRP contractors, lead-abatement contractors and HVAC certificate providers; the City’s own status words explained; a page for anyone who searched for a lead inspection or lead test; and plain-language guides to Chapter 365, registration and the certificate process.
The City step, stated plainly
We perform the lead risk assessment (and clearance exam if remediation is needed) and provide the city-submission-ready report. We submit the application with our report. The City of Cleveland reviews both, then either issues the Lead-Safe Certificate or sends a notice saying what must be addressed. We do not predict the City’s timeline, and we do not promise a result.