// Unit group · 5163

Undertakers and Embalmers

Undertakers and embalmers arrange funerals and perform various tasks in the disposal of human bodies.

5 Service and Sales Workers / 51 Personal Service Workers / 516 Other Personal Services Workers / All level 4

// Working conditions

BiologicalChemicalsLifting and posture

// Hand tools

No hand tools in this set.

making arrangements for, and conducting, funerals, cremations and burials

embalming human bodies to retard or arrest the process of decay

conforming to health and sanitation and ensuring that legal requirements concerning embalming are met

incising and closing incisions on various parts of the body and reshaping or reconstructing disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary

dressing bodies and placing them in caskets

conducting interviews to arrange for preparation of obituary notices, to assist with the selection of caskets or urns, and to determine the location and time of burials or cremations.

Included occupations

Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Embalmer
- Undertaker

Indexed job titles 6