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Biohazardous materials are defined as biological substances that have the capacity to cause illness or even death to a human being, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Biohazards can contaminate your home or business in a number of different ways. These include everything from contamination by infectious disease to rodent droppings to the release of blood and other bodily fluids as the result of some sort of traumatic events like an accident, crime, or suicide. Call our veteran-led biohazard cleaning company.
An important element of the biohazardous waste cleanup process is the safe transportation of those potentially dangerous materials from the location of the remediation to the destination where the waste will be treated or disposed of. In the state of California, there are a set of laws, and associated regulations, that govern the manner in…
The primary means of disposing of biohazardous material has been incineration. Prior to 1997, 90 percent of all biohazardous waste was incinerated. It was in that year that the Environmental Protection Agency issued the Hospital Medical Waste Incinerator standards. These standards started a shift away from the incineration of biohazardous waste to other methodologies, principally…
The death of a family member is a challenging event. The sadness associated with a family member’s death combines with questions and even confusion about what happens next. If you are like most people, you likely have questions about what happens when a family dies at home. For example, you may wonder who removes a…
With some luck, you never encounter a situation in which you face the prospect of cleaning up blood and other bodily fluids. Of course, wishing someone “best of luck” is not foolproof. Odds are that you very well may face a point in life at which you have a situation involving blood and bodily fluid…
Each and every year, people across the United States are infected by serious bloodborne pathogens. Some of these viruses and bacteria result in diseases that are treatable. Other infections can result in chronic conditions that can only be managed. All people need to have a general and authoritative understanding of what can be done to…
The Environmental Protection Agency is not directly involved in dealing with the disposal of biohazardous material. In other words, the EPA does not establish standards relating to what needs to be done to eliminate biohazardous materials. What the EPA does have province over is the discharge of hazardous materials into the environment. As a result of this…
If you’ve found yourself in a position in which you require the services of a biohazard cleaning company, you need to undertake a course of due diligence to ensure that you retain the best biohazard remediation service for the job. In this regard, there are some essential questions that you need to ask before hiring…
Historically, the most common method of destroying biohazardous waste was incineration. In recent years, alternatives to this methodology are being utilized with greater frequency. Nonetheless, biohazardous waste incinerations remain a method used to address this type of dangerous materials. Three Types of Biohazardous Waste Incineration There are three primary types of biohazardous incineration processes used in the…
Dangerous bloodborne pathogens can also be found in other bodily fluids. Because of this reality, people must take caution when they come into contact not only with the blood but also with different bodily fluids. Most Common Bodily Fluids in Which Bloodborne Pathogens Are Found In addition to blood, the two most common bodily fluids in which…
The U.S. National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health provides a comprehensive and succinct definition of bloodborne pathogen: A pathogen is something that causes disease. Germs that can cause long-lasting infection in human blood and disease in humans are called bloodborne pathogens. In order to protect your health and the health of others, you…
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