Overview - Crime Scene Cleaning

What is crime scene cleaning?

Crime scene cleaning refers to the specialised process of decontaminating an area with meticulous detail after a traumatic event or a crime has taken place. Over time this has come to include incidents such as suicides, home invasions, industrial accidents, serious and sudden illness or unattended death. Therefore, it isn’t always associated to a crime, and often requests for ‘trauma cleaning’ come from a search of ‘crime scene cleaning services near me’, as often any scene requiring blood clean-up are considered to be ‘crime scenes’.

Crime scene cleanup is very distinct from regular cleaning services or even deep cleaning, because it involves the removal of potentially hazardous materials and the thorough disinfection of the area before returning the area to how it was before the event.

Crime scene cleaning and trauma cleaning is carried out by trained biohazard professionals who have the expertise, experience, equipment, and knowledge to handle these sensitive and potentially dangerous situations.

Who cleans up crime scenes?

There is a common misconception that the emergency services clean up crime scenes or scenes of traumatic injuries. Biohazards present at a crime scene expose you and those cleaning them to several health risks. This is why trauma clean up should always be carried out by professionals with the appropriate training and equipment.

Neither the emergency services nor the Councils provide crime scene cleaning services. Only professional biohazard cleaning services provide crime scene cleaning or biohazard cleaning.

Trauma cleaning without the correct training and equipment can have serious and fatal consequences, so it’s always best to leave the job to professionally trained crime scene cleaners. Time is of the essence and you must act quickly following a crime, trauma, serious injury, serious illness or death to minimise the health risk to you, the general public and reduce damage to the property.