Embalmers

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Job Description

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Key Tasks

• Conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met.
• Apply cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased.
• Join lips, using needles and thread or wire.
• Close incisions, using needles and sutures.
• Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
• Clean and disinfect areas in which bodies are prepared and embalmed.
• Dress bodies and place them in caskets.
• Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump.
• Remove the deceased from place of death and transport to funeral home.
• Perform the duties of funeral directors, including coordinating funeral activities.
• Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs.
• Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax.
• Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter.
• Conduct interviews to arrange for the preparation of obituary notices, to assist with the selection of caskets or urns, and to determine the location and time of burials or cremations.
• Insert convex celluloid or cotton between eyeballs and eyelids to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelids.
• Assist with placing caskets in hearses and organize cemetery processions.
• Maintain records, such as itemized lists of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed.
• Wash and dry bodies, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air dryers.
• Arrange for transporting the deceased to another state for interment.
• Perform special procedures necessary for remains that are to be transported to other states or overseas, or where death was caused by infectious disease.
• Supervise funeral attendants and other funeral home staff.
• Serve as pallbearers, attend visiting rooms, and provide other assistance to the bereaved.
• Direct casket and floral display placement and arrange guest seating.
• Arrange funeral home equipment and perform general maintenance.
• Assist coroners at death scenes or at autopsies, file police reports, and testify at inquests or in court, if employed by a coroner.
• Press diaphragm to evacuate air from lungs.

O*NET Information

• SOC Code: 39-4011.00
• Title: Embalmers

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