Skills & Knowledge you will learn

Identify hazards and assess risks in a cemetery or crematorium
Work in confined spaces
Provide service to clients
Work effectively in the funeral services industry
Deal with grief responses
Follow work health and safety procedures
Backfill and make good graves
Dig graves manually
Prepare for gravedigging
Dig graves using machinery
Consolidate collapsed graves
Remove ledgers and concrete lids
Exhume burial sites
Prepare vaults or crypts for burials
Operate a backhoe, front-end loader or excavator
Provide general grounds care
Maintain property and structures
Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices