Exciting News! All of our Arizona offices have banded together to create a Bio-One Law Enforcement Grant in their state. Each Arizona office is contributing towards the grant and expenses associated with it. They'll be awarding a $5,000 Grant to a local, law enforcement agency. We love when our offices combine forces for a great cause! Help first, business second is what we are all about at Bio-One!
If you know of someone in need of our services, please take a look at our locations to find the nearest Bio-One office near you. Stay safe!
April 19-25th, 2020 is National Crime Victim's Rights Week!
Bio-One has the opportunity to help people after an unfortunate event, but we understand the pain of survivors is a long and ongoing process. We operate by the motto: help first, business second and we believe a community support system is such a great way to help those around you.
If you know someone who has personally been affected by crime, please take this week to reach out to them. Send flowers, a card, have a conversation or coffee with them and let them know they are loved and supported.
Gary Maxey in Savannah recently cleaned homeless veteran's tiny homes. This is part of a tiny house project in Savannah, Georgia where tiny homes are provided for homeless veterans either permenantly or as a transitional place. At Bio-One, we are honored to be a part of causes like this. We are here to help and love when we can help make a difference.
If you know of someone in need of our services, please take a look at our locations to find the nearest Bio-One office near you. Stay safe!
Megan and Amanda Boccardi, owners of Bio-One of STC and Bio-One of Central MO help clean and disinfect a local gym - a St. Peter's Fitness Center. As COVID-19 is hitting the United States everyday, Bio-One continues to take action. Help first is what we do and we'll be here during this time of need.
If you know of someone in need of our services, please take a look at our locations to find the nearest Bio-One office near you. Stay safe!
If you see a rodent running across your floor during the day, you’ll likely scream. But even after you’ve shooed it from your home, you may find yourself in a more frightening situation. Because rats and mice are nocturnal animals, an appearance during daylight hours suggests that you have a severe rodent infestation on your hands. At this stage in the process, the rodent population has outgrown the dark crevices of your home and widened into your living space. This presents multiple problems for homeowners, including property damage, health risks and increased sightings.
Fortunately, there are many warning signs before an infestation develops, the most obvious among them being the presence of rodent droppings in your home. Though seemingly trifling, discovering waste demands immediate action. Diseases caused by feces, urine and saliva are often transmitted through the air, which may affect your lungs, food and water sources. The solution for protecting against these noxious fumes involves cleanup measures that target animal waste and their nests. Such actions will deprive rodents of their food sources and limit their ability to breed, precluding an infestation before it’s too late.
But, depending on the severity of the issue, you may not want to attempt this process on your own. Special equipment—like respirators—are required to safely disinfect areas sullied by rodent droppings because they protect the user against airborne pathogens. Moreover, viruses remain on surfaces that haven’t been properly disinfected, posing serious health risks to homeowners, pets and children if they are left unattended. Although a recently mopped floor looks clean, it may still be contaminated by dangerous viruses. The technicians at Bio-One thoroughly and effectively disinfect areas tarnished by rats, mice, pigeons, cockroaches, bats and other pests. Contact us if you find any of the following signs of contamination:
Feces—Rodent feces are distinct for their pointed ends. They are roughly half an inch in length, pill-shaped and dark colored, resembling brown or black grains of rice. While droppings can be found anywhere in the home, they are highly concentrated in areas where the pests are feeding and breeding—which tend to be in dark and secluded spaces of the home. These areas accumulate the most waste as time wears on, making them increasingly likely to spread airborne diseases like hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. Even if you don’t see any droppings, you will likely smell them well before a severe infestation develops.
Urine—Urine stains can be difficult to spot. But the lingering odor they generate is unmistakable. A dense, musky smell will permeate the home, growing stronger and more pungent as the rodents reproduce. You’re unlikely to remove it as long as rodents continue to live inside your home. Unfortunately, the odor becomes increasingly difficult to eliminate the longer the stains sit unattended, making it challenging to ventilate your home well after the rodents have been removed. Proteins in the urine attract other rodents and encourage longevity. To prevent this situation from happening, it’s best to act quickly.
Grease Marks—Rodents carry oils in their fur that rub off on the surfaces they touch. Because of their poor vision, rats and mice will often travel along baseboards and walls, leaving behind unsightly grease marks and dark smudges. These trails may reveal where they are congregating.
Please contact Bio-One if you have any questions about animal waste removal. We’re ready and available to restore the comfort and purity of your home.
Welcome to our last month's B.O.T.s training crew! Bio-One is proud to announce a new Atlantic City location as well as technicians from Dayton, Huntsville, and Tampa getting certified! Great job to our new franchise and technicians!
If you know of someone in need of our services, please take a look at our locations to find the nearest Bio-One office near you. Stay safe!
Matt and Krista Gregg from Bio-One of Asheville have taken the time to make some goodie boxes for their local police department and crisis advocates! These look delicious and are a great way to create relationships and show your support.
If you know of someone in need of our services, please take a look at our locations to find the nearest Bio-One office near you. Stay safe!
Homelessness has been rising steadily for the past three years. According to the latest federal data, 552,830 people experienced homelessness at least once in 2018, an increase of 0.3 percent since 2017. These numbers come after homelessness dropped 15 percent between 2007 and 2016. The Department of Housing and Urban Development attributed last year’s growth to two factors: the 4,000 people forced to stay in emergency shelters due to natural disasters, and a 2.3 percent increase in unsheltered homeless, which rose from 190,129 in 2017 to 194,467 in 2018. The rate of unsheltered people has been rising significantly since 2014, increasing 11 percent after several years of decline. That means more homeless people are living on city streets without the resources they need to help themselves recover. As a result, local businesses, city officials and institutions cite public health concerns over the prevalence of homeless people in their communities. Absent a comprehensive government plan to productively address the problem, homelessness continues to rise in large cities nationwide. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, homeless service providers offer shelter to 70 percent of homeless people year-round. But that leaves 30 percent of homeless people unsheltered, resulting in the rise of encampments that often harbor disease.
These encampments shelter large groups of people, and are comprised of makeshift tents, cardboard and other materials. They appear along buildings in metropolitan areas, underneath freeways and bridges, inside storm channels and drainage tunnels, within wooded areas, and inside alleys and empty lots. Because of the health issues associated with them, cities, counties and businesses are hiring experts in biohazard remediation to remove them. These requests are rising in areas with growing homeless populations. According to an analysis by the Los Angeles Times, requests to remove encampments in Los Angeles rose 167 percent between 2016 and 2018. Government agencies and local businesses avoid hiring their own employees to clean up homeless encampments because of liability concerns. Without the proper training or equipment, workers who attempt to remove these structures are exposed to hypodermic needles, animal waste and body fluids. These biohazards contain bloodborne pathogens and other bacterium that spread diseases like Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV, MRSA, E. Coli and Tuberculosis. Moreover, the abundance of trash in encampments can be overwhelming and likened to hoarding situations.
To complete this work in a safe and efficient manner, it’s best to contact the professionals at Bio-One. With twenty years’ worth of experience in hoarding cleanup, medical waste disposal and biohazard decontamination, we understand how to remove health threats and prevent the outbreak of disease. Our team works with cities, counties and businesses to clean encampments that pose a sanitation risk to local residents and the homeless community. We’ll properly dispose of illicit narcotics and remove sharps, trash, and feces that could spread disease. Before we disinfect a site, however, we always make sure to give ample notice to the homeless who live in the area and ensure that their valuables are returned to them. Contact your local Bio-One office today to discuss how we can help you. We are available day and night.
Contact Bio-One at 303-625-6543 for more information or for an estimate today.
Bio-One Inc. is the first crime and trauma scene cleaning franchise, operating in 35 States with over 90 locations. Bio-One is committed to providing excellent service in recovery and suicide cleanup, homicide cleanup, hoarding situations, junk removal, deceased animal recovery, feces removal, pest and rodent droppings and much more. Each office is independently owned and operated by a member of the local community. For more information about becoming a Bio-One franchisee, visit us at BioOneInc.com and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
Huge thank you to Cheryl Chiasson for sharing your knowledge and giving a couple of owners an opportunity to experience a hoarding job while in Denver! We love when trainees go out on job scenes and have the opportunity to chat with local offices!
If you know of someone in need of our services, please take a look at our locations to find the nearest Bio-One office near you. Stay safe!
Losing a loved one in an accident is incomprehensibly painful. The seeming unfairness and randomness of the moment is almost impossible to accept at first as grieving friends and family members try to rationalize what happened. They often feel guilty for not doing enough to prevent the death despite the fact that the incident was entirely out of their control. But nobody can prepare for the sudden and unexpected. Accidental deaths are by definition unnatural and unintentional. They include slips and falls, traffic accidents, poisonings, accidental weapon wounds, drownings, fire injuries, head traumas, industrial accidents, choking deaths, explosions, and natural disasters. Fatal accidents have always been a leading cause of death in America. But unfortunately, they are becoming more common.
According to the non-profit National Safety Council, accidental deaths increased 96 percent over the last 25 years. Though they decreased significantly between 1950 and 1980, fatal accidents have been growing rapidly since the mid-1990s.Despite our innovation in creating safer technologies, today’s rate of 52.2 deaths per 100,000 people hasn’t been seen since the mid-1970s. Now, accidents are the number one leading cause of death for people aged 1 to 44, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For all demographics, they are the third leading cause of death nationwide, with 169,936 deaths reported by the CDC in 2017.
While researchers have not reached a consensus on why accidental deaths are increasing, the NSC points to three trends to explain the rise, including increases in poisonings, motor vehicle deaths and falls among older adults. All of these injuries are preventable, they say, arguing on their website that institutions “have not consistently prioritized safety at work, at home and on the road”. Poisonings, the leading unintentional injury among CDC data, increased 11 percent between 2016 and 2017 . The NSC attributes the growth to the opioid crisis, which claimed the lives of 47,000 Americans in 2017 .
To put the CDC data into perspective, 466 people die from accidental injuries every day The number of friends and family members affected by the death of a loved one is even higher, resulting in an ever-growing community of people who must find ways to manage their grief. Bio-One works with these families every day to facilitate their steps towards recovery.
When fatal accidents happen, we dedicate our resources to helping families restore their home or business in a safe, private and efficient manner. Because first responders do not decontaminate crime scenes after they respond to a call, we step in to ensure that families are not exposed to disease and other dangers. Crime scenes harbor harmful bloodborne pathogens that contaminate the immediate area, leaving everyone on the property vulnerable to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Our licensed technicians use powerful, environmentally safe chemicals to thoroughly disinfect the area so you can rest assured that your family will be safe. We work with an appreciation for your valuables and will replace furnishings if need be. In hoarding situations, we remove clutter that may present a danger to other inhabitants, including feces and other biological waste.
When you give us a call at your local Bio-One office, we’ll immediately connect you with a representative that will address your unique situation. Because we value your time during this difficult moment, a team will be dispatched to your home or business within an hour to complete the service. When they arrive, they’ll come in unmarked vehicles to safeguard your privacy. Our team approaches their work with the sensitivity it demands and endeavors to address your needs with the compassion it deserves. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. We are on standby 24/7/365.
