TRAUMA & ACCIDENT CLEANING


work outwards, in a trauma clean the team works in pairs, working inwards from the door so as to ensure they are only ev er working in a clean area


A t the end of the day, along with the waste we hav e remov ed, we incinerate our haz -mat suits, shoe cov ers and glov es as they can’t


b e used again and could easily cross-contaminate items b ack at the depot rauma cleans are of course v ery v isual, b ut the scary part to rememb er is that some of the most dangerous haz ards – pathogens  are invisible


How do you assess the site?


T here are a v ariety of haz ards to look out for and what we are faced with v ery much depends on what happened at the scene We assess ev ery trauma clean b efore carrying out the appropriate steps to clean it; this includes  lling in a site-speci c risk assessment for the room( s) that e are reuired to enter


T he nature of a trauma scene means that there is almost always b lood or other organic waste present, which carries an infection risk and are therefore inherently dangerous – diseases such as H epatitis and


H I V can frequently b e present, so we need to ensure that we are correctly prepared to dispose of this We regularly need to dispose of things like syringes and related drug paraphernalia as well as the usual items such as broken glass here can ev en b e occasions where we are called to trauma clean in a dangerous site, for ex ample in a partially derelict


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b uilding, in which case we hav e a specialist health and safety consultant ho e call on to advise us


How do the team deal with the human side of trauma cleaning?


I t’s often the case where we don’t know the full story b ehind a trauma scene, b ut it’s reasonab le to assume that a death has occurred We instil a  rm policy of absolute professionalism and the importance of treating each trauma scene with dignity and respect regardless of the details t can sometimes be dif cult not to the think of the person who may hav e died at the scene, b ut ab ov e all, our role is to ensure that the property is suitab le for family or lov ed ones to enter into after we hav e completed the clean, and this ultimately helps us to keep a  rm focus on the ob in hand


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