Biohazard/Viral/Staph MRSA Infection Decontamination

1 Priority Environmental Services, Inc. has performed thousands of decontaminations for area-specific jobs at schools, industrial plants and expansive facilities including biohazard clean-ups, staph infections, animal fecal matter, toxic chemicals/waste and other contaminants utilizing skilled technicians and the latest techniques including high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) negative air machines and HEPA filter vacuums, along with manual cleaning and quality chemical agents.

Biohazard/Viral/Staph MRSA Infection. 1 Priority. Your Solution.

DID YOU KNOW...

Biological hazard or biohazard is an organism, or substance derived from an organism, that poses a threat to human health (primarily).

Biohazards include microorganism, virus or toxin (from a biological source) and medical wastethat can impact human health and also includes substances harmful to animals.

The United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) categorizes various diseases in levels of biohazard, Level 1 being minimum risk and Level 4 being extreme risk.

The entrance and exit of a Level 4 biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard.

Staph can cause serious infections and is resistant to numerous antibiotics including penicillin and methicillin.

About 25-30% of all people have Staph within their noses but it normally does not cause an infection.

Staph can infect the blood and thereby be sent to various areas of the body, such as the bones, kidneys, or heart.

Chlorine gas has a disagreeable, suffocating odor that is detectable in concentrations as low as 3.5 ppm.

Chlorine gas, also known as bertholite, was first used as a weapon in World War I by Germany on April 22, 1915 in the Second Battle of Ypres.

Crime-scene clean up after someone who dies violently is the responsibility of that person's family.

Crime-scene clean-up is called CTS Decon – an acronym for “Crime and Trauma Scene Decontamination -and it involves cleaning up dangerous material includes the biologically contaminated scene of a violent death (homicide, suicide or accidental) or the chemically contaminated scene of a methamphetamine lab or anthrax-exposure site.

Avian flu is referred to as "bird flu", "avian influenza", or "bird influenza" and means "flu from viruses adapted to birds."

Swans can carry highly pathogenic avian H5N1 and other avian flu viruses

An influenza pandemic is a rare event and has occurred only three times over the last 100 years (in 1918 with around 50 million deaths, in 1957 with almost two million deaths, and in 1968 with about one million deaths).

FEATURE PROJECT

Location: Graniteville, South Carolina
Project: Tanker Spill at Textile Mill

1 Priority Environmental Services, Inc. provided emergency decontamination services for a tanker spill from a collision of two Norfolk Southern Corporation trains at Avondale Mills textile mill immediately after toxic chlorine gas released from that crash floated through the plant. There was 6-8 inches of cotton in the HVAC air duct system which soaked up the deadly chlorine and we decontaminated over 100,000 square feet of ducts in 18 days; 6 days ahead of schedule.

Decontamination Project Size: $400,000

General Contractor: Air Systems Remediation