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The Importance of Proper Suicide Scene Remediation

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

Any landlord, business owner or operator of a public facility should exercise wise discretion in responding to an incident where a tenant, employee or any individual takes the tragic step of ending their own life on his or her property. It is highly recommended that one retain a suicide clean up company for the purposes of environmental reclamation.  Chosing one with proper experience will allow them to guide you through the myriad of difficulties you are about to encounter with mourners, co-workers, roommates, friends and acquaintances of the deceased.

A recent case in Marietta underscores the multiple roles of a professional suicide clean up company. A father of a soon-to-graduate from high school had been barred from visitation with his younger child (and daughter) that was only twelve years old. The grief and melancholy that engulfed the man pushed him to consider options he previously would have spurned out of hand. Just one week before his son’s scheduled graduation, he went to his place of employment, locked himself in a supply room and shot himself with a shotgun.

The suicide clean up company met several roles in their response. They advised the company on how to handle their communications and OSHA responsibilities with their employees.  They could advise when the affected site could be safely reopened.  They assisted the company with moving operations to a new area.  They worked with the local coroner’s office concerning removal of the corpse from the premises.  They identified what parts of his remains and what other substances affected by the shotgun blast needed removal.  They advised the grieving widow of their intention to handle the disposition of his remains fully and the lack of necessity, on her part, to worry about that matter. Utilizing the expertise they have gained from conducting homicide scene cleanings, death scene cleanings, trauma scene cleanings and accident scene cleanings, they completely remediated the affected area removing blood droplets and organic tissue as well as other chemicals disbursed by the gunfire.  They applied the most advanced cleaning solutions and checked the ventilation system to ensure that no hazardous particulates might have ventured in to other parts of the facility.  More importantly, they removed the need for the grieving family to have to worry about this aspect of the tragedy, granting them an opportunity to try to appreciate the son’s graduation.

This information was originally published as part of the Crime Scene Cleanup blog at http://www.advancedbio-treatment.com/blog.

For more information about our suicide scene remediation services, contact Advanced Bio-Treatment toll free at 800-860-4268.

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Home Inspection Reveals True Cost of Not Hiring Professional Scene Cleanup Company

Monday, January 17th, 2011

Beginning in the late nineteen eighties when many counties and municipalities implemented new building codes that raised the standards for new homes, apartments and other residences, home inspectors who certify a home’s readiness for sale and identify those flaws that require repair have had to consider more factors when assessing a home’s compliance with the evolving standards. In the midst of this progression, homeowners who have unusual events in their residences may need to address certain problems.

As an example, if a burglar breaks in to your home and you shoot him, there may be considerable blood and tissue that gets strewn throughout your home. Without using a crime scene cleanup company potentially dangerous substances can spread. When an inspector comes to review the facility at the time the homeowner is ready to sell the residence, the failure to use a crime scene cleanup company could cost the homeowner a bundle.

If an inspector finds contamination due to insufficient crime scene cleanup, then the inspector will report this finding in his report to the buyer’s agent. The buyer will certainly seek to have the purchase amount reduced to reflect the diminution in value of the residence as a result of the contamination or demand the seller pay for the remediation necessary to remove the contamination. As such contamination will have probably spread; this cost will be much greater than it would have been if the crime scene cleanup had been performed earlier.

This information was originally published as part of the Crime Scene Cleanup blog at http://www.advancedbio-treatment.com/blog.

For more information about our odor removal services, contact Advanced Bio-Treatment toll free at 800-860-4268.

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Professional Scene Cleaning Prevents Commercial Liability

Sunday, October 24th, 2010

The failure of a landlord or a private business to adequately and fully clean a crime or accident scene after the occurrence of such an incident could result in the imposition of liability against that party. If a crime occurs in an apartment, for instance, and blood or other organic tissue is not completely removed a real problem could ensue if that person who bled had been ill. Should a subsequent tenant contract an illness or rash or something it could be attributable to the improper cleanup.  Then the landlord could be liable for leasing a space that is unfit for habitation.

The procurement of a crime scene cleaning company, accident scene cleaning company, blood scene cleaning company, trauma scene cleaning company, homicide scene cleaning company, suicide scene cleaning company, meth lab cleaning company and bio hazard cleaning company that performs a thorough decontamination and attests to such can effectively serve as a defense to any such liability. Their insurance can also provide a liability shield for the landlord.

As for crimes or accidents that occur in a public space or a governmental agencies building the calculus could be different. The controlling factor in such situations is whether the public agency has any conferred immunity from some state statute or even constitution. Frequently, state constitutional or statutory provisions will protect cities, counties or states from liability for the failure to adequately make sanitary a public property after a crime or accident.

There are some exceptions, however, wherein gross negligence, evidenced by an obvious permission of a dangerous condition to persist, could revoke, or act as an exception to, the usual immunity. In these instances, the governmental agency would also be wise to bring in professional crime scene cleaners, accident scene cleaners, homicide scene cleaners or death scene cleaners, suicide scene cleaners, meth lab scene cleaners and blood scene cleaners to take care of a particular condition.

This information was originally published as part of the Crime Scene Cleanup blog at http://www.advancedbio-treatment.com/blog.

The more the information about our scene cleanup services, toll free at 800-860-4268.

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Accidental Apartment Fire Requires Scene Cleanup Expertise

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Graham wanted to smoke one more rock. Although he had been getting high all night, he felt like he needed one more smoke to fully reach nirvana and feel no pain. What he failed to realize is that he had already reached a state where he could feel no pain. Even worse (although he didn’t think of it this way), he had lost all sense of coordination. Instead of using a regular lighter, he relied on a torch to ignite his rock. As he activated the torch several inches from his pipe, he knocked over a bottle of booze, grain alcohol actually, all over his clothes. After he belched out a few expletives he inadvertently pulled the ignited torch towards himself and started a fire that spread into a minor conflagration. His smoke alarm went off alerting his apartment manager who called the fire department.

The fire over all did not hurt his apartment too bad. Graham was a different story. Not only did he have to be rushed to the hospital for third degree burns but he also was placed under arrest. The crack – just a little because he had smoked so much there was little of his stash left – was confiscated and placed into evidence.

But the apartment did have to be cleaned. The police called in a crime scene cleaner who removed much of the burnt carpet, some of his tarred tissue and the remainder of pieces of furniture, drapes and flooring that were damaged. Then the crime scene clean up company disinfected and sanitized the entire apartment.

The apartment manager was most pleased. As Graham was going to be spending the rest of his lease locked up and such occurrence was grounds, under the lease, to invalidate his term, the manager could relet the apartment to a new tenant. Thank God he had the sense to bring in the crime scene cleaners. Not only did he get rid of a destructive bad apple but he had the chance to mitigate his losses with an apartment that looked better than anytime Graham was there.

This information was originally published as part of the Crime Scene Cleanup blog at http://www.advancedbio-treatment.com/blog.

The more the information about our scene cleanup services, toll free at 800-860-4268.

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Blood Scene Cleanup in Department Store

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

The manager of the large department store was tired. With just three days before Christmas he had been working fourteen hours per day minimum since the day after Thanksgiving. His feet were killing him and he was worried his store total sales would not reach last years figures. He needed to have three brisk days of business. At 8:30 p.m. he got a call from security that a shoplifting was in progress over in the computer and games department. As he approached the section he saw two of his security guards seek to physically apprehend the suspect. Fortunately they were behind an aisle that could not be observed by other customers at that point in time because customers were dispersed elsewhere.

As he got closer, he saw the perpetrator pull out a knife and stab one of the guards. He ran over and assisted the other guard literally tackling the man wielding the knife and immediately called his assistant manager to get emergency medical help and direct that they come around to the back of the store. He then called 911 and requested the police do the same. By 8:40 they both had arrived and the injured security guard was lifted on a stretcher and taken to the hospital. Further the police arrested the shoplifter.

His big problem now was getting that part of the store back into the shape necessary for it to be open to the public by the next morning and to be able to state unequivocally that there is no undue health risk that would result from shopping there. The police officer had recommended he call a blood scene cleaner company or trauma scene cleaner company. The company he called, Advanced Bio-Treatment, also did crime scene cleanups, accident scene cleanups, homicide scene cleanups, suicide scene cleanups, meth lab cleanups, odor removal cleanups and death scene cleanups not to mention staph infection scene cleanups so they were well suited for the task.

The person at the company with whom they spoke understood the gravity of the situation and the time constraints under which they had to operate. They sent out a crew that arrived about ten thirty p.m. and cleaned and decontaminated the affected area of the store by 2 a.m. As the manager lay down to get two or three hours of sleep before the two busiest days of the year he was able to sleep well because he had learned his security guard was fine and he knew his computer and games department would be open and immaculate in the morning.

This information was originally published as part of the Crime Scene Cleanup blog at http://www.advancedbio-treatment.com/blog.

The more the information about our scene cleanup services, contact ABT toll free at 800-860-4268

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