So you think this could be the job for you. Checking out crime scenes, working out what may have happened, playing junior detective. Then this is not the job for you, because that is the movies and real life is quite different.

The sort of jobs that could be attended in any week could include:

•            Industrial Accidents

•            Drug Labs

•            General Filth / Debris

•            Suicides

•            Needle Pick Up

•            Bodily Trauma Clean Up

•            Human Waste

•            Tear Gas / Chemical Cleaning

•            Hoarding

•            Animal Waste

•            Squatters

•            Unattended Deaths (Decomposition)

In many of these jobs there is more than likely to be human waste to pick up, clean up or navigate.

If you don’t like cleaning up faeces, vomit, blood or decaying matter, you may want to specialise in something else.

Our Technicians have completed courses in the use of specific machinery, handling and use of chemicals, have an understanding of the way bodily fluids and bio-hazardous waste can affect different materials and how best remediate.

You could be confronted with the imprint on the carpet or furnishings of where someone had died, toilets overflowing with bio-hazardous waste, deceased animals, piles of rotting food, congealed blood, working in the hot or cold outdoors picking through garbage and clothes looking for hypodermic needles. There are times you will be required to suit up on 42oC days and wear a full faced mask, full overalls, Wellington boots and be double gloved. There is fly activity and maggots, ants, spiders and cockroaches.

It’s about scrubbing walls, pulling up carpet, shovelling up trailer loads of rotting food and bio-hazardous waste, cleaning windows, toilets, cupboards, ovens, fridges.

Alternatively you could be cleaning a perfectly normal property and getting it ready to be reoccupied.

You are helping people put their lives back together and families move forward after tragedy.

You are dealing with our young, our elderly and our most disempowered members of society and it is your job to be trustworthy, professional and compassionate.

I hope this gives you a better understanding of the sort of work we do.