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Frequently Asked Questions Is the death odor dangerous? Should I go to a crime scene cleanup school? I think that I need hands-on training. Can you tell me where to find it? Why do you refer to other web sites? Why do you make such a big deal about cronyism? How much should I charge or can I charge? TOPShould I go to a crime scene cleanup school? - There are several answers to this question, and they in turn lead to more questions. As a credentialed teacher and educator, I obviously side on the more-the-better approach. How much time do you have and much money? Remember, there are other schools besides crime scene cleanup schools. Going to as many different cleaning schools as reasonable for you will enhance your cleaning knowledge, skills, and abilities. There are some courses presented on the Internet, which I can neither say "yes" or "no" too, other than more is better. TOPI think that I need hands-on training. Can you tell me where to find it? - The National Institute of Decontamination Specialists (NIDS) presents quality classes, others say. I have no reason to doubt what I've heard. Mr. Kent Burg presents classes in crime scene cleanup and other subjects. Hands-on training should be offered. Hands-on training may be over rated for this line of work. In any case, practice around the house or shop will help. If you insist on finding a real-world experience for the death odor, by a couple steaks, leave them in the sun, and you'll find a fairly useful substitute for decomposing human flesh. A heavily soiled kotex or tampon also serves well. Practice what you find here about moving mattresses, cutting mattresses, and other projects noted from these pages. Crime scene cleanup work involves lifting. moving, demolition, decontamination, scrubbing and rinsing, and so forth. Patience, focused attention, and a plan help in crime scene cleanup as well as other fields of training.
TOPWhy do you refer to other web sites? - The Internet's resources serve too many purposes to ignore. I believe that I have written worthwhile information related to crime scene cleanup on some of my own pages, so I refer to these. California Biohazard Cleanup has a few comments worth while for the beginner. TOPWhy do you make such a big deal about cronyism? Cronyism belongs in Russia, not the United States. We just finished a cold war with Russia, and cronyism in government ranked among the top evils of these evil empires. Cronyism means fascism in its government and business context, embryonic fascism, but fascism nonetheless. Cronyism is real and it has cost me a lot of time and money. Cronyism costs the public money and a competitive service, too. I believe that in our capitalist society we have all agreed to play by the rules of free enterprise, at least up front. Why should we allow the government the right to join our market businesses? Protecting the free market belongs right up there with protecting freedom of speech. Government employees have no right to profit from their employers, the tax payers under any circumstances. That they profit from grieving families who trust them forces me to confront government corruption any way that I can legally do so. Cronies will not hand down their privileged positions without coercion of some sort. I hope to provide an incentive for government to rid itself of cronyism. If we do not fight cronyism now, it will grow generation by generation if given the opportunity; I do not believe our military or law enforcement people risk their lives to benefit these vermin crony companies. More will soon be found at cronyism.us TOPHow dangerous is this work? - Crime scene cleanup work has its hazards, but with focused attention, disinfecting, and keeping a safe distance from untreated or unsealed materials, the cleaner's safety should prevail over biohazards. Needle stick as well as getting stuck by bed springs comes to mind for hazards. By far needle stick ranks as the number one threat to the cleaner. I've found a few "hot" needles from deceased heroin users, and several of these were out of the line-of-sight. Because I do not place my hands anywhere I cannot see them, I reduce risks monumentally. Because I work patiently and carefully, I reduce risks monumentally. Greater risks arise driving to and from the death scenes. Homicides have some risk if the perpetrator remains on the loose. We can thank law enforcement for catching perpetrators soon after homicides, in many cases. Working a biohazard with the thought of a loose perpetrator causes some anxiety. TOPHow much should I charge or can I charge? - This is one element of crime scene cleanup that remains clear as day. We have two crime scene cleanup "industries." One, the crime scene cleanup called "crony crime scene cleanup." It has it own market, a monopoly market. Unless you are a crony, you do not take part in this monopoly. If you were a crony, you would not need to ask the question or read this material. The other crime scene cleanup business is the free market crime scene cleanup. It works by the laws of supply and demand. The more competitors, the less you can charge. To run a crime scene cleanup business a minimum of $100 per hour must be earned, unless you happen to live off of other income. This is not really a survivable figure, but there's nothing substantial that I can add. Know your market and expenses. Don't quit your day job if it's not too late. Real estate sales people like to comment on their market by giving the following 3 keys to success:
Location means nothing, though, if you have a crony local government. TOPHow much insurance do I need? - You should have as much insurance as you can afford. You will need at least one million general liability to clean for many apartment management companies, and often two million. A number of professional cleaners carry janitorial insurance with a biohazard endorsement. Finding an affordable insurance carrier sometimes takes a long time. |
Is the death odor dangerous? - No, the death odor has no hazards, except to those sensitive to its nauseating properties. Put another way, a crime scene cleanup's stink does not carry pathogens, germs. Bacteria off-gas as they grow and die. Feces and urine's gaseous odors add to the off-gassing bacteria; hence, the death odor. As I point out about the death odor, if it caused illness and death, morticians and pathologists would not survive long. Analogous odors found in super market butcher areas when first opened remind one of public rest rooms poorly kept. Either of these two environments produce odors similar to the death odor. No deaths of respitory illnesses arise from these environments as far as I know or can find. I'm still here.
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Dog urine odor. My apartment stinks like urine. One bedroom has the odor and it spreads through every other room. We have new carpeting and the apartment was painted before we moved in. I moved in two days ago. What can I do? Most likely the offending bedroom served as a kennel. The owner may not have experience with this problem. Dog poop may have covered the old carpet as well as urine saturation of walls, floor, and tack-strips (carpet holding nails). Standard operationg proceedures for this problem usually follow one of three approaches.
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Why do we have Crime Scene Cleaners?
In brief, other types of cleaning businesses do not approach cleaning like the crime scene cleanup companies approach their type of crime scene cleanup.
Looking to the history of crime scene cleanup, families and businesses experiencing a violent death from a crime or suicide would rather not clean after the traumatic death. Until recently, within the last 30 years, carpet cleaners and morticians filled this crime scene cleaning need for the few families with discretionary income.
Others began to specialize in this new "crime scene cleanup" industry because of its income potential. When congress passed its bloodborne pathogen legislation, it created an inevitable crime scene cleanup industry.
A sense of caution grew because blood exposure meant exposure to bloodborne pathogens like HIV. Long held cultural taboos also followed blood exposure to the crime scene cleanup technicians without formal biological training. These two elements of crime scene cleanup accounted for those early, extraordinary crime scene cleanup fees.
Early crime scene cleanup technicians must have experienced anxiety as a result. In fact, even today some newer crime scene cleanup technicians exaggerate the biohazards, which creates a problem for education around genuine concerns.
Keep in mind that bloodborne biohazards give way to frequent hand washing, but needle stick and other puncture wounds should give rise to caution. Inhaling dried, flaky blood also requires special caution when begriming a crime scene cleanup job. Because wet and moist blood present possible Hepatitis C infection and other illnesses, we consider wet and moist blood, as well as dried, flaky blood, among the biohazard waste materials.
So the risks of physical injury persist throughout crime scene cleanup as in any other field, but magnified by blood's dangers. The risk of physical injury during demolition work exist like in any construction trade, but for blood's dangers. As a biohazard cleanup of the environment often entails wearing protective clothing, a hallmark of biohazard cleanup.
Because death begins the decomposition process when the heart stops beating, contamination of the death scene with Hepatitis C, with its long life expectancy in the wild, requires forethought and distance when cleaning.
For those unfortunate infected few, healthy living, exercise, and other worthwhile hygiene habits help to slow Hepatitis C's destructive destiny, and little else works to stop it.
HIV carries the second most concern for crime scene cleanup technicians.
Known as AIDS in its advanced stage of development.
Today we accept AIDS as a terrible disease that kills many people from many different backgrounds.
When it comes to crime scene cleanup of biohazards, we prepare well in advance to confront blood and bloodborne pathogens (blood carried germs) in the wild.
Crime scene cleaners emerged because it is now easier to catch a disease from cleaning crime scenes.
Now, blood-borne 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.
That is, women were 15 times more likely to contract HIV from sexual intercourse with a male than vice versa.
Health employees were the most obvious group of US workers at risk, but these rules are applied to most employees in the private sector.
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.
What is probably important for those interested in becoming a "Crime Scene Cleaner," to this writer's knowledge, is that there is no private "certification" needed to clean a bloody scene.
So if a school owner or a Crime Scene Cleanup business tells the reader that they must be "certified," the reader needs to ask, "Certified by whom?".
For crime scene cleanup, certification in bloodborne pathogen training is found quite cheaply and quickly through the American Red Cross.
Email to Orange County Sheriff:
Subject: Your deputies obstruct my business.
Dear Orange County Sheriff,
Consumers of after death cleaning services do not reach Orange County's Internet market.
I know this because I receive zero telephone calls from my Internet marketing service for after death cleaning service.
I offer more information to help you understand that some of your employees cheat the public by referring grieving families to my competitors or their own cleaning businesses.
More proof follows from my Internet marketing experience with other businesses I have owned. Each of these Internet domains generated recurring business telephone calls, which my wife will confirm: power washing, carpet cleaning, marble polishing and industrial floor machine and equipment sales (Cimex).
I believe these successful Internet marketing services in Orange County prove empirically that Orange County's consumers prefer the Internet to telephone books.
Still, I receive zero telephone calls to my above telephone number, which resides on dozens of Internet pages on Orange County Internet web sites. Please help the public by getting your deputies out of my business.
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Do not accept referrals to private companies from city or county employees. County Board of Supervisors |
How should I get rid of blood and OPIM? Read biohazard-cleanup.com. "No evidence indicates that bloodborne diseases have been transmitted from contact with raw or treated sewage. Many bloodborne pathogens, particularly bloodborne viruses, are not stable in the environment for long periods of time" |