TRAINING PLAN

FOR

Funeral Services

Outline

Concerned with arranging funerals, cremations and burials, embalming corpses and other related duties. Also includes providing support for survivors and assisting with all arrangements.

Tasks

performed performed observed
alone with help

1. Funeral Directing
-Understand the set-up, format and procedures of the home and how certain situation are handled _____ _____ _____
-Delivery and removal of flowers _____ _____ _____
-Hospital removals _____ _____ _____
-Organizing receptions _____ _____ _____
-Setting-up chapels and churches for services _____ _____ _____
-Phoning ministers and making all necessary arrangements for services _____ _____ _____
-Setting-up and taking down for funeral services within the home _____ _____ _____
-Greeting people at the door and ushering _____ _____ _____
-Set-up casket selection room _____ _____ _____
-Attend funerals _____ _____ _____
-Assisting with visitations and at funerals _____ _____ _____
-Chauffeuring families to funerals _____ _____ _____
-Arranging burial clothes and burial plots _____ _____ _____
-Making arrangements for public notices and obituaries _____ _____ _____
-Carry flowers to hearse or deliver to cemetery _____ _____ _____
2. General Duties
-Telephone work to obtain Information about the deceased _____ _____ _____
-Registration with city hall and obtaining death certificates _____ _____ _____
-Washing vehicles _____ _____ _____
-Assist in maintenance of grounds _____ _____ _____
-Assist in closing and transporting caskets _____ _____ _____

-Setting up funeral equipment such as lowering devices and grass mats _____ _____ _____
-Estimate number of mourners and plan their transportation _____ _____ _____
-Set up funeral processions _____ _____ _____
-Direct pallbearers _____ _____ _____
-Type up any correspondence work _____ _____ _____
-Assist with filing and report writing _____ _____ _____
-Perform reception duties including telephone answering, showing people to rooms, hanging up coats and accepting memorial donations _____ _____ _____
ADDITIONAL TASKS
_____ _____ _____
_____ _____ _____
_____ _____ _____
_____ _____ _____

Equipment Used Related Positions
Telephone _____ Funeral Director
Typewriter _____ Embalmer
Computer _____ Cremator
Funeral Attendant
Casket Maker

	performed	performed	observed
	alone	with help
1. Funeral Directing
-Understand the set-up, format and procedures of the home and how certain situation are handled	_____	_____	_____
-Delivery and removal of flowers	_____	_____	_____
-Hospital removals	_____	_____	_____
-Organizing receptions	_____	_____	_____
-Setting-up chapels and churches for services	_____	_____	_____
-Phoning ministers and making all necessary arrangements for services	_____	_____	_____
-Setting-up and taking down for funeral services within the home	_____	_____	_____
-Greeting people at the door and ushering	_____	_____	_____
-Set-up casket selection room	_____	_____	_____
-Attend funerals	_____	_____	_____
-Assisting with visitations and at funerals	_____	_____	_____
-Chauffeuring families to funerals	_____	_____	_____
-Arranging burial clothes and burial plots	_____	_____	_____
-Making arrangements for public notices and obituaries	_____	_____	_____
-Carry flowers to hearse or deliver to cemetery	_____	_____	_____
2. General Duties
-Telephone work to obtain Information about the deceased	_____	_____	_____
-Registration with city hall and obtaining death certificates	_____	_____	_____
-Washing vehicles	_____	_____	_____
-Assist in maintenance of grounds	_____	_____	_____
-Assist in closing and transporting caskets	_____	_____	_____
-Setting up funeral equipment such as lowering devices and grass mats	_____	_____	_____
-Estimate number of mourners and plan their transportation	_____	_____	_____
-Set up funeral processions	_____	_____	_____
-Direct pallbearers	_____	_____	_____
-Type up any correspondence work	_____	_____	_____
-Assist with filing and report writing	_____	_____	_____
-Perform reception duties including telephone answering, showing people to rooms, hanging up coats and accepting memorial donations	_____	_____	_____
ADDITIONAL TASKS
	_____	_____	_____
	_____	_____	_____
	_____	_____	_____
	_____	_____	_____

Equipment Used	Related Positions
Telephone _____	Funeral Director
Typewriter _____	Embalmer
Computer _____	Cremator
	Funeral Attendant
	Casket Maker