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Posted By Anthony Edwards
Has anybody (No pun intended) seen information regarding safety for undertakers. Thinking more of lifting/moving corpses and Coffins and lowering them into the ground, (rather than embalming and bodily fluids.
The initial assessment of the premises was shall I say interesting!!
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Posted By Phil Errup
Mitch, you just made my day !!!
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Posted By Dave Daniel
As a consultant, I've done risk assessments for undertakers some years ago.
Their modus operandi involves control of events by a lead undertaker who tends to "walk the route" before the deceased is moved. This effectively forms a risk assessment and handling plan which is then implemented. Generally their trolleys etc. provide adequate equipment for handling and they operate a scheme of passing on handling knowledge from senior to junior staff. I don't think anyone's going to recommend a fork truck to take the coffin into the church!
My clients did report one occasion where they had to get a person out of the house through a window but this is extremely rare and required special planning.
I was confident that if challenged, the process they described included a "suitable and sufficient" risk assessment of the handling and associated training.
There isn't much embalming these days. Most are just kept in cool rooms or a chiller.
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Posted By Chris G
My brother in law is a Funeral director on the Southern edge of the Peak district. Many beautiful medeaval churches, often on steep Church yards without DDA compient access, tends to make most trollies unuable, but with good technique multi person lifts have proved injury free for many years. Interestingly his wife is a big wig in the british institue of embalmers. Aparently never been busier - but dreading the effect REACH will have as they are often "novel" users of rather nasty materials.
Chris
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Posted By Chris Pope One of my customers has a business interest in this. I always felt there was a need for some specialist manual handling and expert knowledge of the biological risks. Here are a few gems from this forum from the past You can find info on shoring equipment, etc. on cemetery suppliers websites such as http://www.funeral-crema...om/cemetery_supplies.htmIt's not always possible to mechanically dig graves. Access in many rural churchyards - especially to re open a family plot makes physical access for a mechanised digger difficult or impossible. In busy areas, family plots designed to take 3 or 4 interments can be 3m deep. Here in the peak district graves sometimes need cutting through the local limestone. My brother in law occasionally has to resort to pneumatic drilling equipment because of this - adding HAVs & PUWER onto the remit of risks to be assessed for grave digging. He also gets an average of 2 visits per year from the LA's. Not surprising that He's Nebosh Diploma'd and each member of staff receives and average 4 days per annum HS&E training ranging from bio-hazards, COSHH & manual handling through to DSE, environmental assessment & Asbestos awareness. with a fair few more topics as well . A major project for a family vault has recently even got caught up with CDM. There is also an HSE doc called Controlling the risks of infection at work from human remains
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