Biohazard Industry Sees Explosive Growth in 2022

The biohazard industry saw explosive growth in the last 20 years due to increasingly violent acts and terroristic threats, and with cybersecurity breaches and disasters at an all-time high, biohazards will continue to grow for the foreseeable future.

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The biohazard industry will continue to grow exponentially through 2025 as biohazards become more complicated and biohazard technicians are called out to clean up an increasing number of biohazards.

            The biohazard industry has come a long way since it first appeared in 1995, largely driven by the need to safely remove biohazards caused by criminal attacks, human error, or disasters. Just this past year in 2017 biohazard technicians cleaned up an estimated 3.5 million biohazards with biohazard remediation services, according to the American Bio-Recovery Association's (ABRA) Annual Industry Report.

            "The biohazard industry has seen steady growth since biohazard technicians were called out to  cleanup the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing in Oklahoma City in 1995," said biohazard expert Racheal Hebert. "After the 9/11 terroristic attacks biohazards became increasingly more complicated due to chemical and bioterrorism agents."

            As biohazards increased so did job opportunities for biohazard technicians, with the industry expected to see a staggering 44% increase in biohazard technicians from 2016 to 2025 according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2017 biohazard technicians earned an average salary of $32,490 per year, up from just $24,200 in 2014, according to medical biohazard disposal company Covidien.

            The biohazards biohazard professionals deal with on a daily basis can be extremely dangerous and biohazard companies like Covidien ensure biohazards are properly cleaned and disposed of according to a strict protocol. On average biohazard technicians removed biohazards such as blood, bodily fluids, waste, and other potentially hazardous materials from residential homes more than 100,000 times in 2017. Biohazard professionals also responded to biohazards in the workplace more than 27,000 times this past year according to Covidien's biohazard disposal data.

            The biohazard industry will continue to grow exponentially through 2025 as biohazards become more complicated and biohazard technicians are called out to clean up an increasing number of biohazards, from Covid-19 (coronavirus) and other airborne pathogens. With increased scrutiny from the devastation and loss of life, tacking pathogen cleaning in the future is certain to look different.

            "With biohazard companies like Covidien biohazards will continue to be a growing problem," says biohazard expert Hebert. "Biohazards have been hazardous since the days of the Black Plague and biohazard remediation efforts have gone unchanged for over 550 years."