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(For most single homicides, suicides, and unattended deaths)

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Blood and Biohazard Cleanup

For our purposes, biohazards may be infected blood or tissue from crime scenes, suicides, and unattended deaths. Such infectious envirments must be isolated until all cleaning, disinfecting, and removal is carried out. Extreme hygienic exaggeration should be used by the novice as well as the professional. Always clean biohazardous environments as if cleaning for a toddler's use.

Never remove biohazardous material without wearing gloves. "For cleaning blood or bloody fluids from floors, bed, etc., you can use household rubber gloves." Wear protection over eyes, nose, and mouth. Have a safe means of exit and a place to decontaminate yourself and clothing.

Blood as a biohazard will consist of wet or moist blood, or dried flakey (sabbing) blood. Adding chemicals to blood, something like bleach, will either destroy the blood or destroy its source of food or both. Bleach will begin to break down once in contact with blood, or any other organic matter.

Dried blood that flakes may easily become aerosolized if mishandled. Contact with airborne blood places the cleaner at risk of infectious disease.

Before removing, moisten flaking (scabbing) blood. Cause it not to become airborne. Cover flaked blood with paper towels and lightly mosten with a disinfectant (bleach) from afar. Use a spray bottle while making wide, misting applications to the paper towels' surface. Before removing blood, ensure that it is moist enough not to flake, but not dripping.

Dry paper towels may be used to contain wet blood. Allow towels to dwell until dry. Flush in small quantities, or gently place inside two thick plastic bags. Seal tightly with duct tape. Directly dispose of in a landfill.

Dripping wet blood is considered biohazardous and universally considered infectious until proven otherwise. Contain blood from afar; disinfect it. Pour blood down the sanitary sewer if you are not going to seal it for transfer.

Thoroughly wash hands.

See Blood Cleanup 1, blood cleanup 2, and blood cleanup 3.

OSHA 1910.1030(d)(1)

General. Universal precautions shall be observed to prevent contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials. Under circumstances in which differentiation between body fluid types is difficult or impossible, all body fluids shall be considered potentially infectious materials. (return)

Useful disinfectants may be found here:

Blood Spills: see index at http://www.bccdc.org/downloads/pdf/epid/reports/CDManual_

Vinegar: http://www.apple-cider-vinegar-benefits.com/vinegar-as-a-disinfectant.html

The Center for Disease Control recommends using chemicals or autoclave to decontaminate. This recommendation is made in the context of laboratory work. In the home, on the crime scene, my philosophy is not to tolerate biowaste that may be biohazardous. I destroy and/or encapsulate any offending materials. I see no point in exposing anyone to needlessly exposing anyone to pathogens.

Household bleach is a wonderful, but very corrosive disinfectant. It is a "midrange disinfectant." Bleach has a wide bacterial killing spectrum. It is inexpensive and found on most market shelves. However, bleach is extremely dangerous in the presence of acids, including urine. Open bleach bottles lose their strength; it loses strength when applied to organic material, like blood and decomposing matter. Bleach must be used cautiously, wisely. (return)

Why do we have Crime Scene Cleaners?

This is an important question. The short answer is this: It is now easier to catch a disease from blood than previously. Blood-borne pathogen's have always been with us and have always diversified in nature. Now, blood-borne pathogen's have become more dangerous and easier to contract. So the business field known as Crime Scene Cleanup has grown to serve the needs of blood cleanup for residential, commercial, and industrial env000ents. Also, Crime Scene Cleanup, as written about earlier, is a phrase that glamorizes trauma cleanup.

In the late 1970's and early 1980's, we learned about HIV, Human Immunodeficiency Disease, which becomes AIDS as it progresses. AIDS is an acronym and stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. This disease spread for a number of years in the US before the US Government decided to recognize it. The government refused to get involved because it appeared that "AIDS" was a "homosexual" disease. So there was some bigotry involved with its recognition. In that time, it became obvious that something serious needed to be done.

People were dying in increasing numbers, and the manner of their deaths was quite unusual. They were dying because their bodies could no longer standup against minor and major illnesses. Women were contracting the disease from their husbands and boy friends at the rate of 1 to 15. That is, women were 15 times more likely to contract HIV from sexual intercourse with a male than vice versa.

So OSHA now set rules for employers to ensure that their employees were protected from needle-stick during work. Health employees were the most obvious group of US workers at risk, but these rules are applied to most employees in the private sector. Because of this, no one can clean a bloody env000ent or be involved with work involving possible exposure to blood or OPIM (Other Potentially Infectious Matter) without blood-borne pathogen training. See your American Red Cross for a professional trainer.

HIV is not the only pathogen out there. In fact, Hepatitis C is every bit as bad as HIV. These and other diseases will be written about at another time.

What is probably important for those interested in becoming a "Crime Scene Cleaner," to this writer's knowledge, is that there is no "certification" needed to clean a bloody scene. So if a school owner or a Crime Scene Cleanup business tells the reader that they must be "certified," the reader needs to ask, "Certified by whom?". Some states have certain requirements for handling and disposing of blood and OPIM. These state regulations should be taken very seriously.

Blood-borne pathogen training is usually the first step in most states, if not the only step to becoming a "Crime Scene Cleaner."

It is important, in this writer's mind, that as many people as possible become trained in this field of cleaning. The "writing is on the wall," so to speak. Diseases of unknown origin and magnitude will join us in the 21st Century because of Global Warming. Terrorism will probably be another source of creating catastrophic trauma events. So learn to cleanup blood. Whatever you call yourself is not important. It is the skills that matter.

Perhaps it is time for the public schools to begin teaching these skills.
For certain, the public school systems needs to orient their lessons toward a more ecologically centered approach. Students need to learn about ecological relationships early in their academic career. The importance of seeing nature's relationships ought to be taught: Earth, air, water, biology, ecology.

In summary, blood carrying diseases has spread due to nature's diversity and government negligence. Crime scene cleanup became profitable because rules now exist to cleanup some bloody env000ents. Bloodborne pathogen training is required to clean bloody env000ents (American Red Cross). Many people need to be trained because of catastrophic events. Life-long learning is important, and some "schools" need to be avoided.

See the next blog writing: Starting your own Crime Scene Cleanup Business - The Reality
Eddie Evans

Crime Scene Cleanup Odors - Miasma

Violent deaths usually involve a great loss of blood and tissue, OPIM (Other Potentially Infectious Materials). The loss of blood and tissue, the environmental conditions, and other circumstances will aid in the production of offensive death scene odors, miasma.

Sometimes miasma lingers because of poor ventilation, Sometimes miasma will linger because it has permeated porous materials: fabrics, paper, wood, and more.

We do our best to remove the odors associated with crime scenes and other death scenes. However, removing the source material will not always return the scene to its pre-incident condition for some time. Time and heavy ventilation, and removal of miasma permeated materials will help return the scene to a more "normal" condition.

We can apply chemicals to help increase miasma's departure from the scene, but even chemicals have their limits. Ask about our odor control policies and methods if this is a concern.

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My fees are fixed --

My fees are fixed for individuals as well as insurance companies. Fees are based upon the following:

I work alone. I do not have employees. So I have no employee pension plans, medical insurance, workman's compensation, or payroll to pay. My costs are for restoring death scenes, which includes my insurance, vehicles, and equipment.

I do not need to charge exorbitant fees to cover my costs during down times. And the only crime scene cleanup companies without "down time" are crony companies, anyway. Really, how could it be otherwise?

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Consumer Alert!

Beware of Crony Companies

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Are you being well served by your local government when death scene cleaning is needed?

Are you paying exceedingly high prices for a business owner's connection to government employees?

Some cities, county coroners, county medical examiners, and county administrators refer the public to death scene cleaners.

If one or more cleaning companies are not referred by these local governments, then your local government is creating a quasi-monopoly. Your local govenment is also thwarting competition and the public good.

The referring employee may receive money for handing you the telephone numbers that you received. Or, it may be that the referring employee has a friend or relative that owns the companies that you were referred to call for cleaning help. Possibly, the referring employee owns part or all of the companies that you were referred to for cleaning. Catching this type of cronyism is quite hard, especially when local governments would rather ignore crony employees than create a firewall between them and you.

There are a number of ways that cronyism occurs in local governments. If you suspect that you are being victimized by cronyism, then shop around.

Crony companies cannot survive in an open and free market. Why should they receive government welfare at your expense?

Cronyism is unethical and thwarts free enterprise. (return to My Fees are Fixed

Eddie Evans

Crime Scene Cleanup

What you get -

You get a professional cleaner.

The biowaste materials are removed from whatever objects they have soiled. The biowaste is altered. Any biohazards present are thereby destroyed or caused to become inert (dead). The probability of microThe biowaste is thoroughly sealed for transportation and disposal.

At times biowaste is removed for pickup by biowaste transporters. It depends upon the totality of the circumstances.

Solid waste is removed to a landfill.

The death scene and only the death scene is removed. I have no business entering other rooms unless the deceased entered those rooms while in crisis.

My charges reflect my fee for removing the death scene. There is no cause for me to go elsewhere to create more costs, more profits. (see My Fees are Fixed)

Where needed, property is sealed.

Ed Evans

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