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Students will learn to excavate a grave/burial plot, working within the confines of a cemetery/churchyard.
The finer details
The candidates will be shown & demonstrated the full excavation procedure.
Then be asked to prove competency through a practical/theory assessment.
Delivery method
Practical observation and assessmentCourse description:
Who should attend?
Any persons working within the bereavement industry in or around cemeteries or churchyards.
May that be full time or personnel used for cemetery cover.
What will be covered?
- PPE
- Risk assessment
- Health & Safety
- Legal responsibilities (The Local Authorities' Cemeteries Order 1977)
- Pre-start checks
- Safety devices
- Excavator controls
- Travelling around site
- Grave location
- Setting out of a grave
- Tapered shaped grave
- Coffin shaped grave
- Casket shaped grave
- Turf protection
- Memorial protection
- Positioning and levelling of the excavator
- Excavating procedure and techniques
- Excavating through shoring
- Backfilling procedure and techniques
- Coffin protection
- Grave re-opening techniques
- Soil types
- Burial protocol
- Reinstatement of grave
- Reinstatement of the surrounding area
- Bucket changing
- Working on gradients.
Other areas of interest
- Use of a Dumper within the cemetery/Churchyard
- Use of a Gantry to lift and Lower Memorials
- Moving a Full Kerb Set Memorial.
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