Best Hand Washing Methods to Fight Disease

Hand washing doesn’t take up much time or effort, but doing it properly offers great rewards in terms of preventing disease. As you touch people, surfaces, and other objects throughout the day, germs accumulate on your hands. This poses a significant risk in the transfer of bacteria, viruses, and other microbes if your hands come in contact with your eyes, nose or mouth.

To prevent any infection, it’s important to wash hands frequently - and properly:

• Wet your hands with running water - warm or cold
• Apply liquid, bar or powder soap and lather well
• Rub your hands vigorously for at least 20 seconds. Remember to scrub all surfaces, including backs of your hands, wrists, between your fingers and under your fingernails.
• Rinse well and dry your hands with a clean/disposable towel or air dryer. When leaving the restroom, try avoid directly touching door handles.

Much like hand washing, the first stage in bioremediation is to ensure the contaminated area is clean. At Brooks Remediation, we follow strict cross contamination prevention and sanitation protocols. First, we meticulously clean the area with proprietary cleaning agents. Then we test the surfaces with a portable adenosine triphosphate (ATP) fluorescence testing unit, which detects whether or not any living organism has survived. Once the process is complete, we do a second test to ensure that the ATP levels are zero.

After remediating the scene, our techs dispose of all bio-hazardous materials in marked containers and take them to an approved bio-hazard disposal site, following local, state and federal laws.

Trust Brooks Remediation for professional and safe bloodborne pathogen cleanup, to ensure that your home and property are protected after any death or trauma scene has occurred.

For more information on how to prevent the spread of disease, visit Mayo Clinic’s website here.

Pricing and Payment Options - How Much Does Crime Scene Cleanup Cost?

Depending the situation, the cost of remediating biohazards can vary dramatically. In order to give an estimate, a proper assessment must be completed. When you call us, we’ll arrive immediately and prepare a detailed scope of work and a written estimate of our recommended treatment plan.

Pricing factors can include:

• Number of rooms affected (including pathways/hallways)
• Level of structural damage (floors, cabinetry, wall surfaces)
• Length of time left unattended
• Complications including hoarding, machinery, or large amounts of personal property like clothing and furniture

Our hourly rates are industry standard to insurance industry pricing tools, Blue Book and Xactimate. We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and staff all job sites with a minimum of one foreman and one technician for safety and efficiency reasons.

For more information about insurance and payment options, please visit our website.

Trust Brooks Remediation for professional and safe bloodborne pathogen and crime scene cleanup to ensure your home is restored to its original, safe condition. Contact us today and allow our empathetic and professional staff members alleviate the burden and responsibility involved in the cleanup and disinfection off of your shoulders, and on to ours. 800-663-2854

About Our Services: Infectious Disease

Brooks Remediation treats all crime scenes and blood spills as if they contain life threatening infection, and with good reason.

Did you know even the smallest trace of blood or biological materials can present risks from bacteria and bloodborne diseases? While you can’t see these diseases, they are severe enough to cause illness or even death should they not have been cleaned properly. Some viruses can remain dormant and reactive when exposed to water, putting you and your family at risk long after the incident.

Brooks Remediation ensures the safest bloodborne pathogen cleanup, using the same techniques the food prep facilities, health care, and manufacturing companies use to eradicate disease. For more information on the steps to our infectious disease/bloodborne pathogen cleanup please visit our website here »

Trust Brooks Remediation for professional and safe bloodborne pathogen and crime scene cleanup to ensure your home is restored to its original, safe condition. (888) 567-0545

About Our Services: Crime Scene Cleanup

Crime scene clean up, whether it be a homicide or a suicide, should not be handled by someone who has not been professionally trained. Crime scenes can be littered with biohazards like HIV/AIDS, MRSA, Hepatitis C, dangerous chemicals, and other hidden biohazards.

Brooks Remediation has EPA approved chemicals and equipment to deal with any crime scene or biohazard a situation might present. Our goal is to restore your home or business to its normal state prior to the incident. 

Our crime scene cleanup technicians have been handpicked for their empathy and attention to detail, as well as ensure the protection of your privacy. A Brooks Remediation team will arrive as soon as possible and work to clean, disinfect, and remove all contamination from the scene. 

While we hope you'll never need our services - if a tragedy strikes, we'll be there to help. Learn more about our crime scene clean up on our website »

Contact us today and allow our empathetic and professional staff members alleviate the burden and responsibility involved in the cleanup and disinfection off of your shoulders, and on to ours.  800-663-2854

Stay Informed - Tips on Handling a Crisis Situation

We’ve all said it before, “that will never happen to me.” While we sincerely hope you don’t ever have to utilize our services, we also know how unpredictable life can be and as such it’s important to stay informed.

Staying informed means knowing what to do when a crisis happens. It means being prepared before, during and after an emergency. This can make all the difference in responding to a situation that requires having a clear head, in a time where things may be cloudy.

Below are some tips on handling a crisis situation:

• Contact a certified and licensed cleaning company, like us here at Brooks Remediation
• If at all possible, avoid being inside the scene. Once the cleaning company arrives, they will issue you appropriate personal protective equipment to ensure safety.
• Close off the rest of the house and create a direct route in and out of the contaminated area for emergency personnel/police/coroner etc.
• To avoid tracking infectious materials, do not enter back into the non-contaminated area without removing shoes and leaving them outside.
• If you’ve come in contact with blood or OPIM with or without wearing gloves, wash your hands thoroughly. Also, wear a paper dust mask if infectious materials could be in the air.
• If you came into direct contact with blood or OPIM you should go to the emergency room and tell them you came into contact with blood and need prophylactic treatment and evaluation.
• If a majority of the business or dwelling has blood or bodily fluids you should evacuate the area and stay with friends, family or in a hotel. This is only in extreme circumstances where there is blood or OPIM spread throughout 90% of the area.

At Brooks Remediation, our highly trained and professional biohazard remediation personnel is dedicated to helping people and communities when tragedy strikes. Contact us today and allow our empathetic and professional staff members alleviate the burden and responsibility involved in the cleanup and disinfection off of your shoulders, and on to ours.  800-663-2854

What Makes Brooks Remediation Different?

Homicides, unattended deaths, blood spills, etc. are all tragic events that no one plans on experiencing in their lifetime. As such, dealing and coping with the aftermath of these happenings is incredibly difficult. Tacking on the thought of restoring your home or the vicinity to its natural state can be overwhelming. It is important that no one attempt to clean up a scene if they have not been professionally trained. Not only can this be traumatic for friends and family, but very dangerous as well.

Over 20 years ago, The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) developed the Blood borne Pathogen Standard and The Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act to protect workers whose occupations expose them to dangerous, life threatening blood borne pathogens. Compliance with these standards are mandatory by federal law.

The following are the steps we take to remain in compliance and provide a healthy and safe work environment for our workers and the public:

• Exposure Control Plan
• Implementation and usage of UNIVERSAL precautions
• Usage of engineering controls
• Usage of work practice controls
• Appropriate personal protective equipment
• Hepatitis B Vaccinations for all employees
• Post exposure care and follow up
• Appropriate training and certifications for all employees
• Labels and signs for hazard communication
• Worker medical and training logs

Learn more about why compliance is key to prevention on our website.

At Brooks Remediation, our highly trained and professional biohazard remediation personnel is dedicated to helping people and communities when tragedy strikes. Contact us today and allow our empathetic and professional staff members alleviate the burden and responsibility involved in the cleanup and disinfection off of your shoulders, and on to ours. 800-663-2854