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Career: Embalmers
Job Description
Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.
Job Tasks
Importance %age |
Task Description |
100
|
Conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met. |
100
|
Close incisions, using needles and sutures. |
100
|
Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax. |
100
|
Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump. |
100
|
Perform special procedures necessary for remains that are to be transported to other states or overseas, or where death was caused by infectious disease. |
100
|
Wash and dry bodies, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air dryers. |
98
|
Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs. |
98
|
Dress bodies and place them in caskets. |
98
|
Maintain records such as itemized lists of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed. |
96
|
Apply cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased. |
96
|
Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter. |
95
|
Join lips, using needles and thread or wire. |
95
|
Insert convex celluloid or cotton between eyeballs and eyelids to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelids. |
95
|
Assist with placing caskets in hearses and organize cemetery processions. |
94
|
Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs. |
89
|
Arrange for transporting the deceased to another state for interment. |
89
|
Arrange funeral home equipment and perform general maintenance. |
87
|
Direct casket and floral display placement and arrange guest seating. |
86
|
Serve as pallbearers, attend visiting rooms, and provide other assistance to the bereaved. |
85
|
Perform the duties of funeral directors, including coordinating funeral activities. |
84
|
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. |
81
|
Supervise funeral attendants and other funeral home staff. |
53
|
Assist coroners at death scenes or at autopsies, file police reports, and testify at inquests or in court, if employed by a coroner. |
30
|
Press diaphragm to evacuate air from lungs. |
Work Activities
Importance %age |
Activity Description |
71
|
Handling and Moving Objects
|
66
|
Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
|
66
|
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
|
64
|
Assisting and Caring for Others
|
63
|
Getting Information
|
63
|
Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
|
62
|
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
|
62
|
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
|
59
|
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
|
58
|
Performing General Physical Activities
|
57
|
Making Decisions and Solving Problems
|
56
|
Processing Information
|
55
|
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
|
55
|
Communicating with Persons Outside Organization
|
55
|
Documenting/Recording Information
|
54
|
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
|
53
|
Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People
|
53
|
Scheduling Work and Activities
|
51
|
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others
|
50
|
Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others
|
49
|
Controlling Machines and Processes
|
49
|
Thinking Creatively
|
47
|
Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material
|
47
|
Provide Consultation and Advice to Others
|
47
|
Performing Administrative Activities
|
45
|
Analyzing Data or Information
|
43
|
Training and Teaching Others
|
43
|
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
|
38
|
Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates
|
38
|
Coaching and Developing Others
|
38
|
Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment
|
38
|
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
|
37
|
Selling or Influencing Others
|
37
|
Developing Objectives and Strategies
|
37
|
Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
|
33
|
Developing and Building Teams
|
31
|
Interacting With Computers
|
31
|
Monitoring and Controlling Resources
|
23
|
Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment
|
22
|
Staffing Organizational Units
|
19
|
Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment
|