Biohazard Cleanup Services in Lancaster, PA

Biohazard remediation involves cleaning, application of EPA approved hospital grade disinfectants, and deodorizing locations where a traumatic event such as an accident, injury, or death has taken place. Thus, projects with biohazards often means working with blood, human or animal remains, chemical spills, and more.

Our Biohazard Cleaning Services:

• Blood and Bodily Fluid Remediation
• Virus Decontamination and Protection
• Sewage Cleanup and Sanitation
• Deodorization and Odor Control
• Crime Scene Cleanup
• Hoarding Cleanup

It is important to remember that the state officials are not required to clean up a crime scene. When police investigators are finished gathering evidence from the area, the responsibility of cleaning the area shifts to the property owner to seek biohazard cleaning services. Professional cleanup teams can arrive onsite only after the police have gathered all evidence related to the crime.

The Blood or Other Potentially Infectious Materials (BOPIM) Standard

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a standard in 1991 to protect all workers from the dangers of blood or other potentially infectious materials (BOPIM). Hepatitis B virus, HIV, the 2019 Novel coronavirus (COVID-19), and many others are examples of Infectious pathogens.

This standard helps protect nearly 5.6 million workers in the healthcare field and related occupations, which also includes biohazard remediation companies. Biohazard remediation is within the scope of the BOPIM standard.

Additionally, the BOPIM standard includes several requirements, as follows:

• Record keeping
• Mandatory training
• Specific required vaccinations
• Proper handling, transport and disposal of hazardous medical waste materials
• Using appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Using work practice controls
• Conduct a Health and Safety Assessment (OSHA requirement)

Common Biohazard Situations

• Blood and bodily fluid
• Suicide or death
• Crime or homicide scenes
• Coronavirus contamination
• Chemical hazards
• Animal waste or remains
• Hoarding scenes

Each and every time that PuroClean technicians handle materials that are possibly hazardous, they are taking a chance of significant risk to their safety. This is why following proper safety methods and exact training procedures are so important. Following these procedures is not only significant to the technician’s safety, but for the safety of property owners who will later reside and occupy the affected space once the biohazard cleanup and remediation is finished.

Biohazard Cleanup Certification Requirements

Biohazard specialists are not obligated to obtain a special certificate to do their work. They are subject to OSHA requirements, however, to wear the proper PPE when working with or close to bloodborne pathogens. We also recommend you follow the local city, state, and federal regulations for exact licensing obligations, laws, background checks, fingerprinting or additional requirements to perform biohazard restoration. For example, the state of Georgia voted in a new law that is directly related to any company providing restoration services for crime scene and trauma cleanup.

Personal Protective Equipment or PPE stands as the final line of protection that helps keep workers safe. PPE guards against any hazardous materials from reaching the workers, through skin, eyes, nose, mouth, or any other contact. Exact PPE does vary depending on the particular work, however, it should always include properly designated waterproof coveralls, nitrile gloves that are also cut resistant, full-face protection, and a respirator.

Additionally, well known restoration firms offer biohazard remediation training for new employees. The training includes learning on-the-job safety procedures as set by OSHA, for handling biohazardous waste. Learning these guidelines reduce risks of accidents, or even potential litigation situations.

PuroClean Biohazard Cleanup Procedures

• Upon mobilization, the remediation crew will inspect and identify all affected locations, conduct a health and safety inspection, and make a decision as to the scope of the biohazard cleanup. When the crew has a plan in place, remediation begins right away.
• PuroClean will first take precautions to ensure their safety and the safety of any individuals near the affected areas.
• Technicians then remove and dispose of all potentially infectious items from the site.
• OSHA regulations will explain how hazardous medical waste is handled. For example, spinal fluid, peritoneal fluid, amniotic fluid, and other bodily fluids are carefully handled and taken to a licensed hazardous medical waste incinerator.
• Per industry standards and state laws, technicians have to dispose of porous materials such as fabric and carpeting that can’t be properly cleaned.
• Hospital-grade disinfectants are to be used on non-porous items that can be salvaged. If the items end up being non-restorable, our technicians will remove and dispose of such items.
• After the cleaning process, technicians will deodorize all affected locations and assure the areas are returned to pre-contamination cleanliness and appearance. One procedure that proves areas are totally cleansed and ready for people is to have a licensed industrial Hygienist perform clearance testing.
• Odors are normally controlled by the removal of uncleanable contaminated materials and cleaning with hospital-grade cleaning products. However, difficult situations may require further methods of deodorization to achieve the desired goal.

Biohazard Cleanup Services Provided with Empathy

No matter if you’re the customer, occupant or owner of the project location, PuroClean completely grasps the magnitude of pain you’re going through. Our restoration crews strive to be exceptionally sensitive and understanding so as not to add to the sense of loss that is already felt. Biohazard cleanup particularly can be especially traumatic. Therefore, all technicians empathize with all individuals, showing the utmost delicacy and respect throughout the restoration process.

The PuroClean RapidDefense™ Program

The PuroClean RapidDefense™ Program by PuroClean is the absolute best way to clean, which involves using of EPA approved hospital-grade disinfectants in public locations. This cleaning process helps halt the spread of pathogen-based illnesses, like Influenza, Norovirus, and the 2019 Novel coronavirus (COVID-19). These cleaning methods use Environmental Protection Agency-registered, safe cleaning solutions to give up to three months of protection against pathogens. Contact PuroClean before an outbreak occurs, and to help you to maintain the cleanest premises possible.

For Biohazard Cleaning Services, Call PuroClean!

Contact your local PuroClean when you require biohazard restoration professionals. PuroClean technicians will clean and restore your contaminated property. State-of-the-art equipment, tools and procedures will be used by our technicians to effectively treat your damage.

The quality of our restoration services, the quickness that we deliver these services, and the compassion of our team throughout this difficult time, helps to make PuroClean your ideal biohazard damage restoration company. We promise to do whatever it takes to help and rescue properties in all of the towns, cities, and communities with our service area.

*Please note that not all PuroClean offices offer biohazard cleaning services, please contact the PuroClean home office at 800-775-7876 and we will help find a PuroClean location that can help you.

Cleaning and application of hospital grade disinfectants of frequently touched items and surfaces are the recommended actions to help prevent the spread of respiratory diseases, like coronavirus. Since any location can be re-contaminated after cleaning, and since the coronavirus is also spread person-to-person, PuroClean’s cleaning services can’t be guaranteed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html) for more information about coronavirus, its spread, and prevention.