This unit specifies the skills and knowledge required to clean and decontaminate hazardous materials resulting from disaster, hoarding, squalor and filth, unattended death, accident, trauma and crime scenes once released by police. Hazardous materials may include bloodborne pathogens such as bodily fluids and tissue.

The unit includes the selection and application of safe and efficient methods suited to the task, equipment and cleaning agents in potentially challenging and confronting situations. It includes assessing the site, isolating the contaminated area, removing contaminants, cleaning, disinfecting the area and removing odours.

The unit is informed by standards set by the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) and relevant Australian Standards and applies to experienced technicians responding to jobs in commercial and domestic sites.

This unit is suitable for cleaning industry personnel who use well-developed cognitive, technical and communication skills and a broad knowledge base to select and apply specialist methods, tools, materials and information in operational cleaning management contexts. They complete routine and non-routine activities and provide and transmit solutions to a variety of predictable and sometimes unpredictable problems.

All work must be carried out in accordance with relevant state/territory legislation and regulations, including work health and safety (WHS), and codes of practice as well as organisational procedures.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.