Module 2 exam: Health & Safety within the funeral business 

 

 

Before we start ……

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Before attempting the online quiz below please read all sections of this page and take notes as you go to produce revision guides – you can use these to help you answer the questions below.

 

Quiz questions can be based on any material presented to you during the course including presentations, assignments and any guided reading contained on this page.  Before you start the quiz, please have these available.

 

Don’t feel bad if you need to ask for help. People you can talk to about exams include mentors, course facilitators, candidates and other work placed staff.

 

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Let’s begin ……

 

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This part of the web page will require you to click on a number of links to visit external web sites – remember when you visit each page to look for the answers to the questions, we have asked you.

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When you visit each page remember to think how this applies to your own working practices and why the information is relevant to your role. Health and Safety is a huge subject with many thousands of documents and protocols available that covers almost every process in your work - limit the scope of your reading to what is on these pages but feel free to take a deeper look around some of these web sites and into the topics covered.

 

 

Link 1: Follow this link to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) web page and read about the H&S work act.

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• Q. What is the name and date of the primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in Great Britain?

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​On the right-hand side of this HSE web page you will see a link to ‘Health and safety law poster pocket card’ – have a look at this and answer the following:

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• Q. Whose is responsible H&S at in your work place?

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• ​Q. What must do if you think there is a serious health and safety risk in your work place

 

 

 

Link 2: Follow this link to a pdf document produce by the HSE on 'Managing infection risks when handling the deceased'. Go to page 37 in this document and read this chapter ‘Managing the risks of infection in funeral premises'.

 

• Q. Why should you should make sure that there is an adequate fresh airflow throughout the workplace? (look in ventilation section).

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• Q. What information should be provided to you on the hazard notification sheet​ before a body is delivered to the funeral premises. (look in body reception at funeral premises section).

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• Q. If body storage capacity has been exceeded (e.g. during a public holiday period) what contingency arrangements should be in place? (look in body storage section).

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• Q. What temperature should bodies be held for during long term storage? (look in body storage section).

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• Q. Keeping the body cold limits what? (look in storage of the deceased before burial or cremation section).

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• Q. Unauthorised people should not enter areas where hygienic preparations or embalming is being carried out. What must funeral service staff do for any visitors within these areas? (look in access to hygienic preparations and embalming section).

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• Q. What does PPE mean and why is it used? (look in PPE section).

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• Q. What would be designated a clean and a dirty area within a funeral premises? (look in PPE section).

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• Q. List 3 standard infection control precautions (SCIPs) (look in PPE section).

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• Q. List two ways a work place could apply procedures for safe use and disposal of sharps?  (look in safe use of sharps section).

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• Q. What is the purpose of embalming? (look in what is embalming section).

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• Q. Where the deceased are not properly identified, particularly where there is no satisfactory hazard notification form or in suspicious death cases, what should you do?  (look on page 42).

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• Q. Religious or ritual preparations – what must you advise the family if there is an infection health risk (look on page 43).

 

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Link 3: Click on this link to access the HSE web site again - this page contains picture of the different chemical hazard symbols.

​Q. What chemical hazard symbol (s) is found on formalin fixative?

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Link 4: Follow this link to a web site providing an overview of the potential hazards found in a mortuary.

 

• Q. List the potential risk (s) to mortuary staff for the following 5 physical hazards:

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• Ionising radiation

• Lifting / manual handling

• Noise

• Sharps 

• Slips, Trips and falls

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Link 5: Finally follow this link and briefly read through the following publication produced by the British Institute of Embalmers on Safety in Funeral Directors.