Massachusetts Department of Labor
Occupational Lead Poisoning Registry
1001 Watertown St.
Newton
MAUSA
02465
Biographical Sketch: Richard Rabin has been coordinator of the Occupational Lead Poisoning Registry at the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Safety since 1990. Previously, he worked at the Boston Childhood Lead Poisoning Program as a grant writer, outreach worker and researcher. He has also conducted research on the history of child lead paint poisoning and in 1987 initiated the first lawsuit in the US against several of the lead paint companies responsible for the problem.
He has a website on the subject, "Child Lead Poisoning and the Lead Industry," www.sueleadindustry.homestead.com.