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Finding professional cleaning here leads to services for homicides, suicides, unattended deaths, and other traumatic blood loss events. Services found here include professional cleaning solutions, professional decontamination equipment, and an ability to remain on-site as needed.

Expect crime scene cleaners to arrive in time. Expect courtesy, and above all, professionalism. Added value means that we have time to do those extra tasks that need completion. We offer to remove carpet, carpet padding, furnishings, and other materials. We seal soiled areas. We clean beyond the death scene.

To answer the questions, "How do biohazards exist in the crime scene cleanup business?", a few short lines will do. All blood in the following conditions constitute biohazards.

• Wet blood,
• Moist blood,
• Dry flaky blood

Wet blood exists as a biohazard because it has a potential to host and pass on bloodborne pathogens, deadly germs. Injecting or otherwise causing inoculation from bloodborne pathogens raises the biohazard risk.

Moist blood may also cause inoculation of bloodborne pathogens through a direct or accidental inoculation.

Flake blood exists as a biohazard because its potential to become an airborne biohazard; I've yet to hear of anyone injured in this manner, but the Center for Disease Control (CDC) does caution against flake blood. Possible inoculation by eye contact becomes a hazard.

In general, if bloodborne pathogens create as great a risk as some crime scene cleanup schools and company owners claim, crime scene cleaners deserve over $200 per hour. Do company owners pay wages equal to their employees' risks? Not if we believe company owners' claims about biohazards.

To to test for biohazards, squeezing blood from an object qualifies it as a biohazard. To dilute, bleach, or place such blood in a toilet leads to its end.

The facts tell me that suicides continue because they have plagued our species since recorded history. Given the past and fair health, my odds of cleaning after dozens suicides remain high.

What accounts for this assurance in the loss of fellow human beings? Some reasons for suicide follow, and none originated with me. I happen to have a BA in sociology. This explains my original academic interest in this field of study.

• Biologically induced anxiety
• Biologically induced depression
• Economic Stress
• Great sense of guilt
• Great sense of shame
  
• Loss of a loved one
• Painful illness
• Unable to see beyond the short-term

Others have these same explanations and more. My belief that what appended has no one to blame. Suicide happens and must remain a tragedy.

A human life ending outside of a hospital may lead to offensive sights and odors. We cannot imagine the horrific nature of the sights and odors of such scenes when decomposition occurs. For some people it's more than they care to remember. Remember they will though, because horrific scenes have a way of staying with us. Some people get along nicely after such experiences, though. Knowing who will and who will not remains open to question.

Maryland's families in the 19th and early 20th centuries cared for their own dead. So hospitals were not in their world of possibilities. These earlier families knew death cleanup all too well from their day-to-day living. They butchered their game and stock. Likewise, they cared for food and livestock. At no time during these chores were these people far from the memory and odors of death.

So in our past families were expected to care for their own dead. Cleaning, clothing, and prayer were part of the death process before burial. In cases of decomposition, Maryland's humidly and summer heat lead to quick burials. In cases where individuals died and decomposed in a dwelling, friends and neighbors might help with death cleanup chores. Frequently, we might imagine, simply placing clean dirt over blood soiled areas finished off needed odor and blood reduction.

Now many families find that a member experiencing ed an unaccompanied death may call for a professional crime scene cleaner. Because of our modern distance from death, because of our modern furnishings and dwellings, we have more personal property to lose from human decomposition cleanup. As a result, cleaning the soiled area may be beyond a family's ability.

Likewise, today's weapons used for homicide and suicide cause an explosive damage to victims that few care to imagine. The resulting damage creates a horrific cleaning tasks. Simply placing dirt of the soiled area will not due in most cases.

Environment

Environment plays an important role in the decomposition process. The warmer and dryer a room, the quicker a body decomposes while becoming dehydrated. Dehydration slows in a warm, but humid environment. This begins soon after the heart stops beating. Tissues begin to breakdown and this process takes days to months depending upon environmental influences. may take from several days up to years.

Decomposition speeds up as bacteria on the skin die and decompose and new bacteria arrive and feed on the decomposing flesh and dead bacteria. Similar processes take place within the body as populations of one bacteria die off and other increase in number.

Insects may arrive and expedite decomposition. Maggots left by flies help to breakdown the body's tissue. The body purifies and odors begin to penetrate throughout the building or home. Decomposition cleanup at this stage of decomposition encounters moist blood and other potentially infectious materials (OPIM).

During summer months the speed of decomposition increases. In closed rooms without ventilation death's odors begin permeate clothing, paper, walls, carpet and carpet cushion, rugs, walls, and composite wood. Even kitchen cabinets become odor holding vessels until odor remediation follows.

Bacteria off-gas and enter the neck and face, causing swelling of the mouth, lips, and tongue. As the body swells it turns black. Sometimes under pressure or sudden movement the body actually splits and explodes, causing blood and OPIM to splatter. Before exploding feces and other matter may exit from the body's bowels.

Insects and other life forms feed upon a decomposing body. This natural occurrence means only that nature has a course to follow. This is why that it's better to die of disease or injuries in a hospital. If not a hospital, with someone in attendance.

Serous liquids flowing with bacteria causing odors enter the venous area. Now swelling begins in ernest as bacteria off gas, belch, inside the body. Swelling continues until body cavities burst or begin to lose gas pressure from small eruptions. All of tis adds to the cleaning tasks.

We find that decomposed bodies look little like the deceased during their life. A greenish color darkens the body before it turns black following cavity ruptures. "Marbleization" begins as curving green lines make their way across the body's once uniform skin color.

Body's lose their scalp during decomposition. Large patches of skill flake off and at times stick to supporting surfaces. When this happens, we know that that an advanced decomposition has taken place. We also know that odors will take some time to reduce to imperceptible levels. What all of this means is that serious cleaning must take place. A search for migrating fluids must take place. Short cuts will not do.