Cemetery Operations and Grounds
Prepares graves, vaults and crypts at Everlasting Memorial Park, conducts interments and reinstatements, and maintains lawns, gardens, roads, drainage and heritage monuments. Owns grave location accuracy, excavation safety and the presentation of the park.
What the team is accountable for
- Locate, peg and excavate graves by machine and by hand
- Shore, cover and secure open graves before every service
- Backfill, consolidate and reinstate graves and lawns
- Prepare and reinstate vaults and crypts
- Maintain grounds, gardens, roads and monuments
How we know it is working
Who works here
Terry Kowalski
Joined the grounds crew in 2003 and now supervises grave preparation, interments, vaults and the park's machinery and confined space work.
Mitch Doyle
Leads the four-person digging crew, operates the excavator and shoring equipment, and has kept the park's grounds for nine years.
Where the work is recorded
Interment and Cremation Register
The permanent register of every burial, cremation, vault placement and interment of cremated remains at Everlasting Memorial Park.
WHS Incident and Hazard Register
Logs every injury, exposure, near miss, hazard, vehicle event and identification discrepancy with its investigation and corrective actions.
Fleet and Equipment Register
Tracks the hearses, transfer vehicles, mourning cars, mortuary equipment, grounds plant and cremators, their inspections and service status.