Certificate III in Gravedigging, Grounds and Maintenance - SIF30213
TAFE NSW
Type of institution: TAFE Institute
Level: Pre-degree
CRICOS: 00591E
This qualification reflects the role of individuals who perform a range of skilled operations in cemeteries. These operations include preparing, digging and backfilling graves and carrying out grounds and garden care, general maintenance activities and limited construction works.These individuals work relatively autonomously, participate in teams and may coordinate and supervise others. They require discretion and judgement in the selection of equipment, work requirements and contingency measures. Knowledge and application of funeral services industry protocols is required when dealing with the bereaved.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
Subjects
- Install basic masonry structures
- Identify hazards and assess risks in a cemetery or crematorium
- Clean and maintain public conveniences and amenities
- Transfer coffins and caskets
- Control and order goods
- Operate vehicles
- Manufacture vault lids
- Install aggregate paths
- Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices
- Prune shrubs and small trees
- Backfill and make good graves
- Operate pressurised irrigation systems
- Dig graves using machinery
- Remove ledgers and concrete lids
- Plant trees and shrubs
- Install metal structures and features
- Maintain property and structures
- Deal with grief responses
- Apply first aid
- Construct signs
- Inspect and maintain vehicles and equipment
- Dig graves manually
- Identify and use basic current industry-specific technologies
- Install burial vaults
- Follow work health and safety procedures
- Work in confined spaces
- Reinstate vaults or crypts
- Exhume burial sites
- Provide general grounds care
- Consolidate collapsed graves
- Treat plant pests, diseases and disorders
- Place and finish concrete for cemetery or crematorium structures
- Provide service to clients
- Operate a backhoe, front-end loader or excavator
- Construct brick and/or block structures and features
- Work effectively in the funeral services industry
- Memorialise cremated remains
- Prepare for gravedigging
- Prepare vaults or crypts for burials
