 Considering Having Your Employees Clean Blood and Body Fluids?
Business owners, take note: the worst action you can take in the event of a crime scene or accidental death is to assign the job to the on-duty maintenance crew or another employee.
It is illegal to require an employee to clean up blood and bodily fluids without proper certification. Due to the hazardous nature of such work, anyone who does not possess the appropriate training and equipment may contract a communicable disease.
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Hoarder Cleanup or "Pack Rat" Cleanup Services Hoarding is such a widespread problem that Oprah featured the topic on her show. A&E currently has a series titled "Hoarders" which follows the lives of two hoarders per episode. Hoarding is a seriously problem that can affect pets, children, and the quality of life for the hoarders themselves.
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Blood Cleanup is a mainstay of most crime scenes. When responding to each and every crime scene we prepare ourselves for blood exposure by packing our well-stocked response vehicles with state of the art equipment. We find the presence of blood daily - in traffic accident cleanup situations, suicide scenes and accidental death occurrences. When blood is present, a host of health dangers exist.
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Blood and airborne dangers are present in many crime scene decontamination situations and can present grave problems for those not trained to deal with them. The following list illustrates the invisible dangers that can lurk at a crime scene and the reasons why it’s so important to partner with a qualified crime scene clean up team like Spaulding Decon.
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The stinging smell of animal urine sharpens the air. Pet feces piled in a corner are shrouded by a cloud of flies. The human inhabitant goes about her daily routine as if nothing is amiss, stepping over the droppings and living amidst gross filth.
When hoarders invite animals into their home, the result is often unsightly and health-threatening.
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Rodent Droppings aren’t just unsightly. They represent a real health threat and knowledgeable apartment managers and landlords know to leave the clean up to the professionals. This situation warrants a different sort of clean up: knowing that the droppings could be hazardous, it becomes a liability to ask a normal maintenance staff to
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One of the worst parts about crime scene cleaning can be the odor. Nothing smells worse than human decomposition. The odor attaches itself to every item in a room, seeping into walls and furniture, an ever-present reminder of death. The scent of human decomposition spreads into soft goods. To eradicate the odor the source must be removed and a shock treatment performed.
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