Smelling issues

Originally Posted by Shellywoozle

I was there over 3 hours I just realised and guess what house I had to search on todays shift. All enclosed doors internally shut by muggings here......went to work on bike head all cleared, within an hour I was heaving again.

Took a colleague who stood it for 5 mins. Now I wished I went shopping before work lol
Masks etc aren't really an option, gotta be discrete.

Asda on the way to work tomorrow and I have cancelled the Chinese I promised myself.

Badger, u not wrong about the clothes thing.

I don't envy your task, and I appreciated the job our police do,

However I cant understand why you cant wear masks, it has got to be a health & Safety thing surely?

[Shellywoozle]

Originally Posted by 454697819

I don't envy your task, and I appreciated the job our police do,

However I cant understand why you cant wear masks, it has got to be a health & Safety thing surely?

Imagine having to call police cause a family member or friend has died, then they turn up in mask.

A lot if the times we don't know what we got til we go in, family outside. we have to be professional and stay in doing what we gotta do. For me I try and make it as easy on fault as possible so something like vaseline in pocket woyld be ideal, discrete and would help me out.

Yeh we would get our backsides booted if we wore a mask, not very....sensitive I suppose.

Originally Posted by BigBaddad

I work at a company that manufactures health and safety equipment. We have various sets of respiratory gear, from filtration units to positive fresh air supply. http://www.centurionsafety.co.uk/

You buy your boxes from our company Saxon Packaging! It's amazing finding links with people like this...

Derail over.


P.S. I don't envy anyone's job that has to deal with dead bodies. I couldn't do it, so respect to you that can.

Originally Posted by Milky Bar Kid

Yeh we would get our backsides booted if we wore a mask, not very....sensitive I suppose.

reminds me of the story of the bikes paramedic turning up to a heart attack after being at a childrens party. It was only when he leant forward fo CPR that the santa hat fell off.

[Biker Biggles]

I think a mask would be more "sensitive" than walking in and throwing up all over the rellies?
Still,if you must do it that way can I suggest a good bean curry beforehand so it rises well and spreads easily?

Bit of a sick subject really.

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

I think a mask would be more "sensitive" than walking in and throwing up all over the rellies?
Still,if you must do it that way can I suggest a good bean curry beforehand so it rises well and spreads easily?

Bit of a sick subject really.

most of us manage not to throw up....and normally if the stench is that bad, the rellies won't be standing in it so if we get dry boaks, they don't see us...

Originally Posted by Shellywoozle

Imagine having to call police cause a family member or friend has died, then they turn up in mask.

A lot if the times we don't know what we got til we go in, family outside. we have to be professional and stay in doing what we gotta do. For me I try and make it as easy on fault as possible so something like vaseline in pocket woyld be ideal, discrete and would help me out.

To be honest, it wouldn't bother me, at the end of the day its about health and safety in the work place on some level.

I wouldn't expect anyone, police or not to have to be around that kind of smell for any longer than is A needed and B to protect yourselves whilst your there.

I'm possibly an odd one out but its my opinion.

We are told to not breathe through your nose, but open your mouth and breath and just crack on

Ive come close a couple of times, the dry heaves have reached busting point, and one of those was on an resus in the street on a very smelly person, all 3 of us were dry heaving as we worked on this old guy, to make it worse it was a hot day and we were approx 9 mins from hospital.

That smell stayed in the ambulance fro the rest of the shift.

i've had one where the deceased had lost her best friend about four weeks prior, decided that she couldn't cope and took her own life, od'd on pills in her bedroom in the middle of summer with the window open, we found her about 3 weeks later badly decomping, gave the guys a hand lifting the body into the bag and her shoes came away from her body-with the feet still in them-horrendous smell, never ate for a few days and the uniform jacket i had on got binned.