homicide clean up what is involved
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Bio-One ChicagoBIO-ONE SERVICES ALL TYPES OF TRAUMA, DISTRESSED PROPERTY, AND BIOHAZARD SCENES IN COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT ILLINOIS.
Homicide Clean up—What is Involved?
A homicide is the killing of one person by another person and may be viewed as an unfortunate act or justifiable. Murder and homicide are two different things as murder is usually considered a criminal act. When the crime scene investigation is finished and everyone has finished his or her work at the scene of the homicide it is time to do a homicide clean up of what is left behind. Most of these scenes involve various matter from the body such as bodily fluid so it is usually not a good scene to clean up. Depending on the crime, it can take an hour to several days to clean the scene completely to look as if a homicide never occurred there. There are a variety of jobs done at the homicide scene.
Homicide Clean up—What is Involved?
When working as a member of the clean up team it can be a messy scene so you will need a strong stomach to work for them. Many members of the team will have a medical background so they are accustomed to gore and blood. Some members may also have a background in construction or carpentry so they would help with any reconstruction that is needed. One example is when the blood seeps through the carpet, penetrating the wood underneath. After the carpet is torn up these specialists in construction or carpentry can replace the floorboards to ensure that there are no illnesses or blood borne viruses can be transferred to ones in the home after it has been cleaned.
Homicide Clean up—What is Involved?
When doing homicide clean up everyone on the team must wear special equipment to protect themselves from any contamination at the clean up scene. Normally they will use gloves, non-porous suits that are disposable, goggles, and respirators. All of these safety equipment will be disposed of after the job is finished. All of the leftover bodily material like brain matter, blood, or skin has to be collected and then transported to a special site so it can be incinerated. The clean up team has to have the proper permits and required training. They will also use special and common equipment such as:
Homicide Clean up—What is Involved?
• Various cleaners such as hospital strength bleach• Mops • Brooms• Putty knives to clean up brain matter that can quickly harden but if the putty knives do not do the job there is a special machine that has to be used to melt the brain matter so it can be picked up• Shovels for cleaning up congealed blood• A special ozone machine to eliminate the pungent orders that come from decomposition• To ensure that the cleaning chemicals have penetrated a variety of surfaces they may use a fogger machine.
Homicide Clean up—What is Involved?
Bio-One Chicago are your crime scene cleaners dedicated to assisting law enforcement, public service agencies and property owners/managers in restoring property that has been contaminated as a result of crime, disaster or misuse. From traumatic injury cleaning to hazardous waste disposal we are the experts in such events.
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