Crime scene cleaners are also known as "trauma practitioners," "professional cleaners," "biohazard workers," and more. Other occupational specialties like nursing and hospital custodians clean trauma scenes. It is their specialization in crime scenes that give crime scene cleaners entree to environments soiled by criminal activity.
The crime scene cleaner's focus is usually found in the following death scenes. .
About only one in ten death scene cleanups are related to crimes, some cleaners have estimated.
It is known that US Army field and division hospitals operate under triage conditions following infantry combat operations. Hospital blood cleanup from trauma wounds (not an oxymoron) occurs on an ad hoc basis at times. In contrast, the crime scene cleaner's work is well contained and organized for a systematic approach to blood removal from their environment. Protective clothing, including full-face respirators, may be worn to avoid splashed blood from entering the facial orifices. Combat trauma cleaning often occurs on the spur-of-the moment without full regard to blood's contact. Military trauma cleaners are trained to be aware of bloodborne pathogens.
Personnel officers and enlisted soldiers as well as other non-medical soldiers may be called upon to clean hospital areas. It is customary for such soldiers to have receivined blood-borne pathogen training.
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