Crime scene clean-up is not for the faint-hearted and the inexperienced. It takes a lot of soft-skills while performing this extreme job. Do you have what it takes to be a Crime Scene Cleaner?

1. Bio Cleanse Pty Ltd
What Does It Take to be a
Crime Scene Cleaner
December 10, 2015
www.bio-cleanse.com.au

2. More often than not, the media portrays a crime
scene to be populated by investigators, coroners,
policemen, paramedics and family members. The
investigators probe the matter; paramedics take the
dead body or attend to the injured and family
members grapple with the traumatic situation.
However, we never see the crime scene cleaners
who bear the onus of remediating the crime site to
its normal state. Hence, this is a job which happens
behind the scenes and takes a lot of guts, gumption
and expertise.
What skills does it take to be a crime scene cleaner?

3. Flexibility
A crime incident can happen any time during the
day. A crime scene cleaner should be flexible enough
to attend the crime scene at the soonest possible. A
little bit of delay can cause a lot of harm to the
people living around the crime scene, such as
infections through bloodborne pathogens.
GUTSANDGUMPTION
Cleaning up blood, dead bodies, body parts, waste
and other bodily fluids is not for the faint-hearted.

4. It takes a lot of courage to attend a crime scene
site.
ATTENTIONTODETAIL
Leaving a trace of biohazard matter on the site is
not an excuse. It can be a potential bearer of
infections and diseases to those living around.
Crime scene cleanup necessitates proper and
thorough cleanup. The crime scene cleaner should
also take care that no evidence (of forensic
importance) is tampered or destroyed.
KNOWLEDGEOFP.P.E.

5. Crime scene cleaners ought to know the optimal
and correct use of Personal Protective Equipments
(PPE), such as gloves, goggles, body suits, face
masks, respirators, boots, etc. Not only are they
saving other people from getting infected, but the
crime scene cleaners should also take care of their
health, while performing their job. Using the wrong
PPE for a task is as good as wearing no PPE at all.
COMPASSION
Crime scene cleaners will be dealing with family
members or friends of the deceased. It is a
traumatic situation to have an unnatural death in

6. the family. Crime scene cleaners should handle this
situation with compassion and care.
ADHERENCETOPROTOCOL
Crime scene cleanup involves interacting with tons
of biohazard matter. Dealing with these shouldn’t
be haphazard. There are certain protocols and
procedures to be followed and these should be
adhered to at all times.

7. We have a host of professionally trained crime scene
cleaners at Bio Cleanse Pty Ltd.
Visit​ ​www.bio­cleanse.com.au​ for more information on our services.
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