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Students will learn to use a dumper, within the confines of a cemetery / church yard.

The finer details

Candidates will be shown & demonstrated the use of a dumper procedure. Then be asked to prove competency through a practical / theory assessment.

Use of a Dumper within the Cemetery and Churchyard (Skills Card)

Delivery method

Classroom and practical demonstration and assessment

Recognised by

Lantra Awards

Who should attend?

Any person working within the bereavement industry in or around cemeteries or church yards. May that be full time or personnel used for cemetery cover.

What will be covered?

This course will cover: 

  • Pre-start checks
  • PPE
  • Dumper controls
  • Correct loading
  • Loads
  • Working on gradients
  • Working around memorials
  • Working on top of burial plots/graves
  • Identifying tended non-tended graves
  • Turf protection
  • Family witnessed backfills
  • Grave backfilling with shoring
  • Grave backfilling without shoring
  • Different Religious procedures
  • Recognition of different types of coffin and casket
  • Sympathetic coffin backfilling
  • Legal burial depths
  • Mounding techniques
  • Placing of flower tributes and grave after-care
  • Customer care
  • Hazard spotting
  • Machine cleaning and aftercare.
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