Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare to collect deceased person.
- Identify transfer requirements according to workplace policies and procedures, and relevant legislation.
- Identify, locate and prepare appropriate transfer vehicle.
- Identify, locate and prepare transfer equipment and place in transfer vehicle.
- Identify and use personal protective equipment according to workplace policies and procedures, and relevant legislation.
- Complete documentation and legal requirements to transfer deceased person.
- Obtain positive identification of deceased person and label according to workplace policies and procedures.
- Consult with clients to obtain information to complete documentation according to workplace policies and procedures.
- Complete and check legal documentation according to workplace policies and procedures, and relevant legislation.
- Obtain Death Certificate from appropriate sources where available and check prior to transferring deceased person according to workplace policies and procedures, and relevant legislation.
- Check Death Certificate where applicable to identify presence of infectious disease and take appropriate precautions as required.
- Report and document personal effects according to workplace policies and procedures.
- Provide completed documentation to appropriatepersonnel.
- Notify appropriate personnel of discrepancies in legal documentation.
- Report suspicious deaths according to relevant legislation.
- Transfer deceased person to funeral vehicle.
- Identify safest and most appropriate method of moving deceased person.
- Identify wrapping considerations and wrap deceased person according to workplace policies and procedures, and relevant legislation.
- Apply manual handling techniques to transfer deceased person to funeral vehicle according to workplace policies and procedures.
- Return premises to original state according to workplace policies and procedures.
- Transport and transfer deceased person to mortuary.
- Transport deceased person to mortuary according to workplace policies and procedures, and relevant legislation.
- Transfer deceased person from trolley or other apparatus to vacant mortuary tray according to workplace policies and procedures.
- Conduct immediate cleaning or purging of deceased body as required during transfer.
- Position deceased person according to workplace policies and procedures.
- Store deceased person according to workplace policies and procedures, and relevant legislation.
- Notify funeral arranger of coffin or casket requirements.
- Reinstate transfer vehicle and equipment.