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A suicide may release biohazards into the area of the suicidal act. If blood is present and it is wet, moist, or airborne, a biohazard cleaner must assume that it is biohazardous. (See crime scene cleanup's Biosafe Biohazard Classifications). It is the same with other potentially infectious materials (OPIM).
The body's various fluids, flesh, bone,and other matter all represent biohazards for the cleaner. Whenever possible find professional to remove, clean, and disinfect the suicide's immediate area. (See Crime Scene Cleanup's What to Expecte from Crime Scene Cleanup Companies.)
Any other approach to suicide cleanup is destined to cause illness, emotional trauma, or worse. Whenever a professional cleaner cannot be hired, then help should be sought by reading about blood cleanup below and thrououghy read.
My prices are fair and reasonable prices that only a single cleaner without employees can offer. Ozone and chemical fogger are included in decontaminatinon of biohazards.
Biohazards
For our purposes, biohazards may be infected blood or tissue from crime scenes, suicides, and unattended deaths. Such infectious environments 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 floorsbedetc.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 flaky (scabbing) 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 moisten 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.TOP
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 1blood cleanup 2and 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 pathogens needlessly.
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.TOP
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 in Bakersfied, 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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How long does it take to clean a crime scene? Usually one to two days will be enough depending upon unforeseen's, fogging and ozone gas application.
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The only way to tell how long it will take to clean a crime scene is to take it apart and clean it.
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Ninety-nine percent of single-victim crime scenes can be taken apart and cleaned in one day to two days at the most.
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Therefore I can make a fair and reasonable profit when charging less than $3,000.
This is what I know:
- All callers are distressed.
- Most callers see only the proverbial "tip-of-the-iceberg."
- All death scenes are different.
- Ninety-nine percent of death scenes share similarities.
Answers to who, what, when, where, and how help to understand the crime scene's potential demolition and cleaning issues. The below death scenes have known damage and potential damage.
- A shotgun blast to the head at close range. I know beforehand that the damage is 360 degrees top-to-bottom (floor and ceiling)and possibly extends beyond the crime scene room. Migration is less of an issue then #2 below. I will seal the entire room.
- Unaccompanied death with three week decomposition on a ceramic bathroom floor. I will seal the walls and ceiling.
- A running, flailing, violent bleed-out (homicide) that occurred on two floors, five rooms, carpet, ceramic, bed and on furniture. Migration and wicking are possibilities because of the ceramic floor. Furniture and mattress demolition are certainties. (see walking bleed-out)
- A recent large male's bleed out beginning on the toilet and ending on a king-size mattress, Hepatitis C.
- Total decomposition on a toilet within a poorly maintenanced building wood floor third floor apartment. Call for a quote. I will offer a fair and reasonable price. I will seal the walls and ceiling.
(Clutter adds work to the above.)
Number 1 above will take two long days.
Number 2 will create the least biowaste unless there is poor grouting.
Number 3 will create the most biowaste. Number 4 creates the greatest hazard and may take one long day.
Number 2 and 4 may require chasing fluids below the toilet. Number 5 is a horrific wild card. Call for a quote.
There may be unforeseen issues possible for the above examples, like migrating fluids and floors and walls to remove. (see migration). Unforeseens become apparent only when the scene is taken apart.
My prices anticipate unforeseens.
Email me with the offered quote and I will email my acceptance. This is a contract for legal purposes in any civil court.
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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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Narrative on Trauma and Emotinal Influences - Odors
Emotional trauma may arise with exposure to a violent crime scene, suicide, or human decomposition.
| In general, decomposition should be handled professionally because of its tendency to cause emotional trauma; not unlike a violent crime scene. |
An unattended death with decomposition demands professional attention because of its horrific nature, its unforeseen hazards, and its emotional issues. Whether a crime scene cleanup, a suicide cleanup, or death by natural causes, a decomposed body will leave an extrodinary amount of fluid, tissue, and damage.
The material left behind has its own odors and appearances. It is difficult to explain the awkward cleaning tasks set by an unattended death.
An unattended death's appearance is usually quite horrifying when first seen by the unsuspecting. The odors associated with a death scene strike one as nauseating. On a crime scene, odors add to the horrific appearance as the two become associated with one another.
For a while, many people recall a death scene whenever a loose association is made to it. A male urinating while standing may associate the urine odor with the death scene. The acrid, acidic odors of urine resemble death scene odors because urine is contained in the death scene fluids. Entering a butcher shop will do the same, both visually and by olfaction.
Parosmia is the result, a distorted peception arising from real, airborne molecules triggering unpleasant memories.
As a psycho-somatic cue for the death scene's trauma inducing responses, the subject may easily recall the traumatic scene with a tightening of muscles and restricted vascular flow. This is in essence the fight-or-flight response of any animal when confronted by a threat, real or imagined.
It becomes obvious that children and others exposed to a death scene created by violence or decomposition may suffer emotionally later, which may be framed as Post Traumatic Stress Syndrone (PTS). Any decomposition death scene has the potential to do the same. Emotional cues are instilled by traumatic scenes, whatever their cause.
Social workers and others involved with victims of crime and other traumatic evens would do well to consider the victims of crime links above.
Besides homicides, suicides, and death by natural causes, any decomposition of the human body requires special consideration, special handling. TOP
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