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Job Description
Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 39-4011.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 42,260.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 20.00
- Currently, there are 3,710 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Embalmers”.
Also Known As…
- Embalmers
- Preparation Room Manager
- Licensed Embalmer
- Funeral Service Licensee
- Funeral Director/Embalmer
- Embalmer/Funeral Director
- Chief Embalmer
- Associate Embalmer/Funeral Director
- Assistant Manager/Embalmer
- Apprentice Embalmer
- Trade Embalmer
- Supervisor and Licensed Embalmer and Crematory Operator
- Restorative Art Embalmer
- Prep Room Supervisor
- Manager, Embalmer, Funeral Director
- Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer
- Licensed Embalmer Supervisor
- Funeral Service Practitioner/Embalmer
- Funeral Director/Embalmer/Owner
- Embalmer/Funeral Director Care Center Manager
- Embalmer Apprentice
- Embalmer
- Arterial Embalmer
- Anatomical Embalmer
Tasks for “Embalmer”
- Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump.
- Wash and dry bodies, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air dryers.
- Close incisions, using needles and sutures.
- Dress bodies and place them in caskets.
- Supervise funeral attendants and other funeral home staff.
- Apply cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased.
- Perform the duties of funeral directors, including coordinating funeral activities.
- Arrange funeral home equipment and perform general maintenance.
- Arrange for transporting the deceased to another state for interment.
- Perform special procedures necessary for remains that are to be transported to other states or overseas, or where death was caused by infectious disease.
- Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter.
- Serve as pallbearers, attend visiting rooms, and provide other assistance to the bereaved.
- Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
- Maintain records, such as itemized lists of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed.
- Remove the deceased from place of death and transport to funeral home.
- Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax.
- Assist coroners at death scenes or at autopsies, file police reports, and testify at inquests or in court, if employed by a coroner.
- Assist with placing caskets in hearses and organize cemetery processions.
- Insert convex celluloid or cotton between eyeballs and eyelids to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelids.
- Conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met.
- Join lips, using needles and thread or wire.
- 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.
- Press diaphragm to evacuate air from lungs.
- Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs.
- Direct casket and floral display placement and arrange guest seating.
Related Technology & Tools
- Hydro-electric aspirators
- Protective medical face masks
- Infant arterial tubes
- Non-clogging post aspirators
- Paint sprayers
- Safety goggles
- Embalming bulb syringes
- Steam autoclaves
- Lining brushes
- Casket lifters
- Embalming machines
- Protective medical gloves
- Stryker saws
- Infant trocars
- Safety coveralls
- Trocar sterilizers
- Calvarium clamps
- Adult trocars
- Laptop computers
- Hairpin injectors
- Barber scissors
- Straight Kelly forceps
- Personal computers
- Hypodermic needles
- Cuticle scissors
- Cosmetic brushes
- Curved suture needles
- Centrifugal force pumps
- Embalming vein drainage tubing
- Arm and hand positioners
- Axillary drain tubes
- Straight surgical scissors
- Tube occluding forceps
- Powder dusting brushes
- Injector needle guns
- Lower body positioners
- Head blocks
- Curved Kelly forceps
- Highlighting brushes
- Body positioners
- Refrigerated body storage cabinets
- Ring cutters
- Embalming injector needles
- Blending brushes
- Angular forceps
- Protective hoods
- Extremity positioners
- Lister bandage scissors
- Gravity injectors
- Electric mortuary aspirators
- Fixation forceps
- Stippling brushes
- Embalming fluid pumps
- Bistoury knives
- Carotid tubes
- Hydraulic body lifts
- Head rests
- Mayo scissors
- Tinting brushes
- Iliac drain tubes
- Jugular drain tubes
- Aneurysm needles
- Protective shoe covers
- Surgical scalpels
- Suture needle holders
- Eye suture scissors
- Emergency eye wash stations
- Surgical razors
- Air brushes
- Nasal tube aspirators
- Curved arterial tubes
- Straight arterial tubes
- Desktop computers
- Embalming syringes
- Femoral drain tubes
- Spring forceps
- Thumb forceps
- Mortuary lifts
- Body bags
- Iris scissors
- Microsoft Word
- Custom Data Systems Sterling Management Software
- Twin Tier Technologies MIMS
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Office
- FPA Software MACCS
- Microsoft Excel
- Belmar & Associates Mortware
- Corel WordPerfect
- HMIS Advantage