Bio-Hazard Cleaning

Who is experienced in Bio-Hazard Cleaning? Tell us about what you do?

Regards

buda

In general you will
Need to have written bio-hazard cleaning procedures in place - all your employees should be familiar or trained
Need to have all your employees pre-tested for Hepatitis Hiv
Need to have a Medical waste company for disposal of contaminated materials that need to be disposed
Proper PPE - gloves, glasses, mask, full tyvec suits, booties and respirators - If you use respirators your employee needs to be fitted at a patient care facility - it involves breathing issues and you can be liable if person has breathing problems
Proper cleaning procedures for your equipment - Shampoo machines needs be completely pulled down, hoses, filters, tank thoroughly cleaned after use- small stuff cloths, brushes, need to be disposed
Including personal contents of vehicle - in proper labled medical waste boxes

Proper Epa registered disinfectants
Blood tracers - similar to luminal to find blood splatter
Proper evaluation is it a cut, is a drive by gun shot, is it suicide,
Depending on the type of situation your cleaning methods will vary - gun shot...means explosion high velocity blood everywhere-
Some suicides are instant hearts stops pumping and bleed out might be limited... but lingering death blead out will be heavy
cut can be small area -
Today most bio-hazard cleaning companies will replace all contaminated soft materials instead of trying to clean
Bio Hazard companies rates start at about $250 per hour - for removal and reinstallation, cleaning and remediating, they charge for chemicals, disposal of contaminated waste, ppe (gloves, tyvec suit, booties, etc, (you never re-use) disposal of your materials (cloths, paper, anything that blood contaminated that should be disposed)
pull down and cleaning of your equipment, any specialized equipment you use, ozone, mist etc
waste disposal

I should also add that you should treat all blood the same (fresh or old)... human/animal .. in other words someone might say it was my dog, or I shot a deer...we are not scientists and cannot tell the difference nor is our responsibility to determine human/animal.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/08/2011 06:47PM by concoursgarage.

Thats a good reply, Gina.

Don't insurance companies write-off the car and have it crushed and recycled? Especially with all the health risks you point out - and costs associated in cleaning.

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> Thats a good reply, Gina.
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> Don't insurance companies write-off the car and
> have it crushed and recycled? Especially with all
> the health risks you point out - and costs
> associated in cleaning.

Agreed. Gina's replay was excellent!

Insurance companies usually declare a vehicle a total loss when it's repair cost threshold exceeds the fair market value. Even if a car load of people brutally died inside a vehicle, as long as the damage/repair remained within a safe threshold, they would still attempt to repair it. That's why it's imperative to have bio-hazard's repaired at shops that are properly trained at doing these types of specialty repairs.