What is the proper name for crime scene cleanup?

This type of work goes by many names as there is no officially agreed upon name for this industry.

Here are a some examples of how you might see it named:

  1. Crime scene cleanup
  2. Crime and trauma scene clean up
  3. Trauma and crime scene clean up
  4. CTS Decon (decontamination)
  5. Biorecovery
  6. Bio-Recovery
  7. Forensic cleaning
  8. Crime scene cleaning
  9. Crime scene clean-up
  10. Biocleaning
  11. Bio-cleaning
  12. Trauma and crime scene biological and infectious hazard clean up
  13. Biohazard abatement
  14. Biohazard mitigation
  15. Death scene cleanup
  16. Accident scene cleanup
  17. Biohazard cleaning
  18. And others
  19. Also you will find “cleanup” spelled cleanup, cleaning, cleaner, clean up, and clean-up

These terms all refer to the act of the biological cleaning at the scene of a suicide, murder/suicide, homicide, unattended death (decomp and/or human decomposition), accident, and various other situations which involved blood, body fluids, or tissue.

Generally it refers to any situation that involves cleaning, removal and disinfection of a bio-hazardous substance.