TRAUMA & ACCIDENT CLEANING
A SENSITIVE TOUCH
SCS provides trauma cleaning services for housing associations, providers of sheltered accommodation and police forces across the UK. Here, SCS Managing Director Sarah Southworth offers us an insight into the operation and explains why sensitivity is key.
With all trauma work, there has inevitably been a death or a situation where a person or persons have been hurt which instantly makes the case an incredibly sensitive one. Before we launched our trauma cleaning service, we spent a considerable amount of time looking at the wider picture, exploring case scenarios, researching training provisions as well as the wider personal approach.
Undoubtedly, for any trauma cleaning scenario, we understand it will be a time of distress for the family of the deceased. At each and every trauma cleaning job, the SCS team complete the work in a professional, safe and discreet manner, and treat each trauma cleaning job with sensitivity. The majority of our trauma cleaning and restoration work is carried out in response to flood damage, fire damage, trauma and crime scenes, undetected deaths, oil spills, chemical spills and sewage leaks.
Every one of our team members undergoes rigorous training through the National Academy of Crime Scene Cleaners. The course is designed
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to offer a complete insight into the world of crime scene cleaning. The training is fairly intense and involves cleaning mocked-up scenarios where fake-blood, skin and body fluids are splattered across rooms. Our guys will also see footage filmed at previous extreme cleans, which helps to show them the truth of the job.
Our team is also given advice and educated on how to cope with people traumatised by the scene they are cleaning up, which can include grieving family members, or even the landlord left to deal with the aftermath of criminal activity.
Once the appropriate training is given and the SCS team are ready to begin work on site, then the theory through the training must be applied on an everyday practical level.
Cleaning a crime scene is not easy and a long way from our regular work so choosing the right team members to work in this area is important. Crime residue and other biological waste and matter, especially hypodermic needles, need correct handling. Without the
right procedure the team could be at risk of Hepatitis, HIV/AIDs, and other nasty infections and diseases, so attention to detail is key.
“At each and every trauma cleaning job, the SCS team complete the work
in a professional, safe and discreet manner, and treat each trauma cleaning job with sensitivity.”
The threats which can be present at trauma scene clean-ups are now recognised to be considerable, including Hepatitis B and other pathogens. With the recent tightening of health and safety regulations, we have to take this threat to health into account and we have a statutory duty to ensure the health and safety of our team members.
As a consequence there is a need for an increased level of professionalism, with clients now recognising that in
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