• Rick Bennett - Owner

    Rick’s passion for helping people comes naturally. While Rick has over 30 years of business consulting and professional services experience with a specialty in small business development, his true calling began when caring for his ailing mother. Through this experience, Rick gained a deeper understanding of human empathy and the not so pretty side of life.

    As a result of this experience, Rick Founded and served as President of the following organizations: Senior Solutions (a regional senior health insurance company), Bennett House, and The Dementia Coach. He continues to find ways to help his community and found he was able to do so by filling a unique void - a local business providing hazardous cleanup and removal. And thus began BIOGONE.

    Rick currently lives in Coeur d’Alene Idaho with his wife, Susan, they have six children and 25 Grandchildren.

According to the Center for Disease Control, there are four levels of biohazards.

Biogone is Certified in all 4:

  • Level 1

    Biohazard Level 1: Agents that pose minimal threat to humans and the environment. Examples include E. coli, Bacillus subtilis, and Naegleria gruberi.

  • Level 2

    Agents that can cause severe illness in humans and are transmitted through direct contact with infected material. Examples include HIV, hepatitis B, and salmonella.

  • Level 3

    Pathogens that can become airborne and cause serious diseases. Examples include tuberculosis and Coxiella burnetii.

  • Level 4

    Pathogens that pose a high risk of life-threatening disease for which there are no treatments. Examples include the Ebola virus and Lassa virus.

Professional Certifications

  • Bloodborne Pathogens

    29 CFR 1910.1030

    OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard is a regulation that prescribes safeguards to protect workers against health hazards related to bloodborne pathogens. The standard imposes requirements on employers of workers who may be exposed to blood or other potentially infectious materials such as certain tissues and body fluids.

  • Respiratory Protection

    29 CFR 1910.1030

    In the control of those occupational diseases caused by breathing air contaminated with harmful dusts, fogs, fumes, mists, gases, smokes, sprays, or vapors, the primary objective shall be to prevent atmospheric contamination. This shall be accomplished as far as feasible by accepted engineering control measures. When effective engineering controls are not feasible, or while they are being instituted, appropriate respirators shall be used pursuant to this section.

  • Hazard Communication (HAZCOM)

    29 CFR 1910.1200

    In order to ensure chemical safety in the workplace, information about the identities and hazards of the chemicals must be available and understandable to workers. OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) requires the development and dissemination of such information:

    All employers with hazardous chemicals in their workplaces must have labels and safety data sheets for their exposed workers, and train them to handle the chemicals appropriately.

  • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

    29 CFR 1910.132

    Protective equipment, including personal protective equipment for eyes, face, head, and extremities, protective clothing, respiratory devices, and protective shields and barriers, shall be provided, used, and maintained in a sanitary and reliable condition wherever it is necessary by reason of hazards of processes or environment, chemical hazards, radiological hazards, or mechanical irritants encountered in a manner capable of causing injury or impairment in the function of any part of the body through absorption, inhalation or physical contact.

  • Confined Space Awareness

    29 CFR 1910.146

    OSHA’s standard for confined spaces (29 CFR 1910.146) contains the requirements for practices and procedures to protect employees in general industry from the hazards of entering permit spaces. Employers must evaluate their workplaces to determine if spaces are permit spaces. If a workplace contains permit spaces, the employer must inform exposed employees of their existence, location, and the hazards they pose.

  • Fall Protection Awareness

    29 CFR 1910.66 Appendix C

    Workers on powered platforms should be protected by a personal fall arrest system meeting the requirements of mandatory portions concerning its design, training, inspection, and conditions of use. Workers on powered platforms should be protected by a personal fall arrest system meeting the requirements of mandatory portions of Appendix C of 29 CFR 1910.66 concerning its design, training, inspection, and conditions of use.

  • Lock Out/Tag Out Awareness

    29 CFR 1910.147

    This standard covers the servicing and maintenance of machines and equipment in which the unexpected energization or start up of the machines or equipment, or release of stored energy, could harm employees. This standard establishes minimum performance requirements for the control of such hazardous energy.

  • Decon Specialist Course

    29 CRF Part 1910 Compliant CTS