>Wash your hands after work and don't inhale the fumes when soldering. The
>number of electronics workers is enormous, and has been around since
>before WW2, yet, no-one sued anybody over lead poisoning yet, so I guess
>it's relatively safe ;)
>
>Peter

After 30 years of daily, rather careless handling of solder, (holding in
mouth because both hands were busy etc) I had myself tested for all heavy
metals. A few $$$ later, nothing above trace levels. YMMV