Services

• Biowaste extraction
• Biowaste decontamination
• Biowaste removal
• Solid waste removal

1. Remove mattress as needed
2. Remove furniture as needed
3. Remove clothing as needed
4. Remove floor as needed
5. Remove walls as needed

• Disinfect entire room or rooms

1. Chemical fog as needed
2. Ozone as needed
3. Seal part or total room

Why does California have Crime Scene Cleaners?

Crime scene cleanup is a business that grew because it is now easier to catch a deadly disease from cleaning crime scenes. It was inevitable for this business field to grow, especially when jobs are hard to find. California has registered nearly 300 or so "trauma practitioner" companies to help control the biowaste cycle because of bloodborne pathogens -- germs.

Also, Bloodborne pathogen's have always been with us and have always diversified in nature. Now, bloodborne 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 environments. 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.

Many of San Francisco's (map) residents demonstrated in the streets to help raise awareness of the HIV epidemic and to demand government research and aid. Many people were dying.

Because the commercial media labled these demonstrators as "homosexuals," social stereotypes grew of HIV's victims. Once President Reagan acknowledged that here was a bloodborne pathogen problem, which took a long time for him to do, various agencies began researching the issue.

Among leaders of the various religious groups throughout the USA, church leaders claimed that the "AID's" epidemic was a "homosexual problem" and a sign of the devil's work. The stereotypes applied to homosexuals continued to grow and influenced the cloud lingering over the virus's nature and spread throughout the USA. Homosexuality became a part of the discussion surronding the AID's virus' spread.

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.

California became a leader in the social management of HIV and AIDs by developing its own rules and regulations. California's own OSHA's standard became as stringent if not more so than the federal government. Today's crime scene cleaners in California must be licensed to store biohazardous waste recovered from crime scenes.

Because of this, no one can clean a bloody environment 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 sceme scenec 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.

Bloodborne pathogen training is usually the first step in most states, if not the only step to becoming a crime scene cleaner 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 environments. Bloodborne pathogen training is required to clean bloody environments (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

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