The field of crime scene clean up is often practiced by companies that also perform blood, homicide, suicide, meth lab, odor removal and staph infection cleanups. The perils of improper crime scene clean up include legal, environmental and safety problems. Finding a company that will manage all of these perils can be difficult.
Beginning in 1969 Congress began legislating large-scale legislative frameworks such as the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act to address overwhelming problems of pollution and the contamination of lakes and rivers throughout our country. The development of the EPA accelerated the banning and regulation of the discharge of thousands of toxic or hazardous substances. Many states and municipalities followed suit in successive decades to regulate local pollution emissions and demand that private individuals and businesses safely dispose of a bevy of chemicals and discharges.
As the field of medicine has expanded to understand more about the dangers of biohazardous substances, they have fallen into the realm of EPA regulation. These regulations apply to both disposal and transportation of these substances. It is important to find a cleanup company that understands and follows these guidelines because with EPA, problems of compliance roll back up hill to the generator of the substances. Accordingly, public agencies and private landowners have each become knowledgeable of the necessity to utilize the services of professional crime scene clean up companies to ensure they do not suffer such exposure to unnecessary legal and liability troubles.
Additionally, OSHA, has recognized the same issues of safety in work environments apply as that of disposal safety issues and EPA. OSHA has the power to fine employers that fail to properly train and safeguard their employees when dealing with biohazardous substances. Employers, such as hotels and apartment complexes rarely have employees properly trained and equipped to handle death and accident scenes that involve blood or other bodily fluids. Therefore it is imperative that they hire a crime scene company that does have the proper training and follows OSHA guidelines when cleaning biohazards on their properties.
Last, most companies that would need a cleanup tend to see things as a cost analysis issue. Unfortunately for them and for the public, they forget to factor in the liability cost. If they are caught disposing of biohazardous substances improperly or an employee or client becomes sick as a result of improper cleaning or disposal, the liability can be in the millions. It is cheaper in the long run to just do it correctly and hire a professional company to handle any of the things falling under the heading of crime scene cleaning.
Crime scene cleaner companies
Crime scene cleaner companies operate on the principle that the physical products of a crime, whether visible or not, should be disposed of quickly but not too hastily to suggest carelessness or leave a worse problem. Site remediation work is the process of returning a trauma site to its original clean state. This is the ultimate objective of a professional scene cleaning company — to restore the site to its original clean state, making it once again livable, free from uneasy reminders of the trauma that occurred. Contact Biohazard Cleaning Services California for more help.
Professional scene cleanup companies focus on the removal of these dangerous products of a crime both to ameliorate health problems and to ease potential psychological effects. Scene cleanup companies perform homicide scene, suicide, blood scene, accident scene, meth lab, infectious disease, and odor clean ups.
In each and every instance, the objective is complete site remediation. Crime scene cleaner companies focus on the resolution of a physical problem to solve what is also a psychological issue: the impact the observable evidence of a crime has on a neighborhood, home owner, apartment landlord or tenant, a community or a city.
These companies approach the crime scene clean up in all of its above-mentioned types by professionally addressing actual physical problems: smells, stains, blood, infections, toxins, hazardous chemicals. By succeeding in this approach the crime scene cleaning companies bring, not only a healthy environment for people to enjoy and thrive in, but also the peace of mind that comes with not being faced over and over with the physical reminders of the crime committed. Inevitably, the emotional recovery from a trauma event can only begin once all the physical reminders have been removed.
As a former police officer and insurance agency owner, I understand the need for caring, competent and dedicated service to our clients. In my previous work, as now with Advanced Bio-Treatment, I have made helping others my focus. We understand that our involvement with you happens as a result of some traumatic event in your life. Whether it is a crime scene cleanup, suicide cleanup, or some other tragic event, ABT understands. As a result, my employees and I do our work in a way that best serves you.
