It is an unfortunate event when death or an accident happens on your property. It is traumatic and unexpected and leaves you with a horrible aftermath to deal with.
At West Central Equipment and Restoration in Lecanto, Florida, we can make your life a lot easier at a tough time. We run a compassionate and professional biohazard cleanup service that will clean, disinfect and deodorize the area to ensure any biohazards are eliminated.
What is a biohazard?
Biohazards are biological substances with the potential to threaten human health or the environment, primarily through disease transmission. They include waste and body fluids from diseased hospital patients, laboratory cultures of infectious agents, blood and plasma, urine, feces, bodies (human and non-human), and discarded sharps (glass, needles, and scalpels).
Body fluids can harbor pathogens or toxins that can cause harm to human health; these are considered biohazards and should be handled with great caution.
What is biohazard remediation?
Biohazard remediation is the process of removing, cleaning, sanitizing, and deodorizing an area where a traumatic event has occurred. The specialized remediation handles potentially hazardous materials from sick people, crime scenes, accidents, infectious disease outbreaks, and unattended death.
Due to the high risk of exposure to blood-borne pathogens, biohazard cleanup is a specialty service requiring proper training, equipment, certification, and licensing. When handled by people who are not trained and certified in bioremediation, attempts to remove the materials come with a massive risk of exposure and cross-contamination to other humans and unaffected surfaces.
What are the most common biohazard cleanup scenarios?
- Sewage backups
Sewage backups and dark water intrusions are usually nasty, smelly deposits capable of introducing harmful microorganisms into a property. Our professionals are skilled in removing sewage, contaminants, and moisture for all types of buildings. We will ensure your property is thoroughly clean, disinfected, deodorized, and safe. - Blood-borne pathogens
The removal and disposal of body fluids, tissue, and other potentially pathogenic substances resulting from trauma, crime, accident, or death pose a significant health risk. They require disinfection by a specialist to dispose of the hazardous waste safely.At West Central, we provide quick, safe, and efficient removal and decontamination of blood and other body fluids with zero risks of infection from exposure to blood-borne pathogens.
- Methamphetamine labs
West Central understands that many of the chemicals used in the production of illegal drugs such as methamphetamine are volatile and can leave behind harmful residues throughout your structure. When you need to clean surfaces that have come into contact with meth lab chemicals, you can count on our knowledgeable professionals to follow federal and state guidelines to help you clean the materials. - Crime scenes
Decontamination of a crime scene may entail removing dead bodies and eradicating any signs of the event and the blood and body fluids that resulted from it. Our biohazard remediation team is prepared with the proper equipment and permits necessary to access, transport, and dispose of waste from crime scenes. - Hoarding
Animals such as rats and raccoons have no problem making their home in clutter. If you come into contact with hoarding, you may be contaminated with feces and urine from these animals. In that case, you are at a tremendous health risk.
At West Central, we have a fully licensed biohazard cleanup team with the proper training, experience, equipment, and permit to help you with safe hoarding.
Generally, our biohazard cleanup service can help you to deal with:
- Gross filth
- Animal or human wastes or remains
- Blood, tissue, or body fluid
- Drug or meth lab
- Sewage backups
- Trauma situations
- Bio recovery
- Hoarding
- Death and after death cleanup, especially decomposing body
- Crime scene residues, especially decontaminating chemicals like tear gas
- Accidental death, homicide, and suicide scene decontamination
- Odor and rubbish due to hoarding and animal infestation
- Animal feces or urine
Why should you call West Central?
At West Central Equipment and Restoration in Lecanto, Florida, we understand that improper treatment of blood and body fluids can result in further health and safety risks, including disease outbreaks.
We have crafted and refined a safety-focused, science-based biohazard remediation process that protects the health and well-being of our clients, their families, employees, and affected properties.
Our biohazard cleanup professionals are skilled and experienced in handling blood, body fluids, and other potentially infectious materials. For the safety of you, your family and friends, we strictly adhere to all local, state, and federal guidelines, including OSHA, DOT, and EPA.
All of our technicians have blood-borne pathogen training, personal protective equipment training, respiratory training, and current hepatitis B vaccination. We use up-to-date hazard communication plans, exposure control plans, and exposure incident reports to keep our professionals safe during biohazard remediation.
We follow the OSHA Blood-borne Pathogen Standards, including universal safety precautions and appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) for our technicians. We also give our clients PPEs if they need to access the affected areas. By adhering to the highest standards, we minimize exposure risk for all parties involved.
At the end of the cleanup, we verify our work using ATP tests, which measure cell activity, including blood-borne pathogens. We are only satisfied with our level of cleaning when the tests register zero RLU (registered light units).
With these tests, we add to the layers of technology, measurability, predictability and accountability of our biohazard remediation process.
Hiring West Central means you:
- Have access to 24/7 biohazard emergency services—you can expect an immediate response at any time, day or night.
- Are served by skilled, knowledgeable, and IIRC certified technicians.
- Have a fully licensed and compliant transport company to dispose of all kinds of biohazard wastes.
- Have access to fully covered biohazard cleanup services, so no headache trying to raise money for the cleanup.
- Are served by a cleanup service that has good expertise cleaning biohazards.
- Enjoy a comprehensive four-step process: biohazard containment, cleanup and sanitization, scene deodorization, and property restoration to a habitable condition.
- Prevent unhealthy and dangerous conditions due to exposure to biological and chemical contaminants.
- Safely and effectively restore your property to its pre-incident state.
Reliable, exceptional biohazard cleanup
Unlike a standard house or business cleaning, biohazard situations require expertise, specialized equipment, and appropriate certifications.
There is no room for error as any improper cleanup can raise health and safety risks and cause further damage. The affected areas must be thoroughly washed and disinfected to completely remove all potentially harmful biohazards and ensure the property is restored to a safe, livable condition.
At West Central Equipment and Restoration in Lecanto, Florida, we understand the adverse impact of biohazard on your property. We use specialized cleaning agents and equipment to thoroughly remove all the body fluids, blood, tear gas, pepper spray, and other biological materials.
We act quickly and efficiently, making the cleanup process easy and straightforward, paying close attention to detail, and adhering to a strict safety protocol.
Plus, we understand that you come to us when already in a state of grief and distress. We will be at your door in as little as 45 minutes and swiftly rid your property of the biohazards to allow you to get on with other important activities. You can be sure to receive compassionate and discreet service from us.
Do you have questions or need assistance with biohazard cleanup in Lecanto, Florida?
Call us any time, day or night at (352) 270-8417 and we will immediately dispatch a team of professionals to your location.
