Embalming and Funeral Board Meeting Notice and Agenda, 12/12/2017

Posted on 12/6/2017 at 7:00 p.m.
 

Board of Registration in Embalming and Funeral Directing

1000 Washington Street 1st Floor Room 1D, Boston, MA 02118

DATE: December 12, 2017 TIME: 10:00 a.m.

Notice of Meeting and Topics

10:00am – Meeting called to order:

• Discuss housekeeping and evacuation plan

   

  Board Business:

   

• Review Minutes

• Report from Executive Director, Michael Hawley

• • Licensure processing improvements

     

• Report from Legal Counsel, Charles Kilb and Peter Kelley

   

• Report from Christopher Carroll, Chief Investigator

Executive Session- Candidate Interviews & Review of Examination [(Closed Session Pursuant to M.G.L. c. 30A, § 21]

Quasi-Judicial Session [Closed session pursuant to G.L. c. 30A §18, 5(d)]:

Investigative Session: Cases, Investigative Conference, Settlement Offers [Closed Session Pursuant to M.G.L. c. 112, § 65C]

Application review:

Type 3

• Lisa Wolfsen

Type 6 (downgrade from Type 3)

• Brian T Beale

   

  Apprentices

   

• Matthew Mazzuchelli

   

  Funeral Assistants (1^st time)

   

• David Golden

• William Marani

• Glenn Nadir

   

  Funeral Establishment Certificate Application:

   

• Fowler-Kennedy Funeral Home

   

  Wall Certificates

   

• Tighe Hamilton Funeral Home

• Silva Funeral Home

• Dewhirst & Boles Funeral Home

   

  Continuing Education Provider Applications:

   

  Funeral Service Academy

   

• Funeral Home Safety Overview

• Safety Within Funeral Homes

• OSHA Compliance Guidance for Funeral Homes (composite course)

• OSHA Compliance Guidance for Funeral Homes – Part 1

• OSHA Compliance Guidance for Funeral Homes – Part 2

• Complying with the Federal Trade Commission Funeral Rule

• Grief and Cultural Competence: The African American Diaspora

• Grief and Cultural Competence: Hispanic Traditions

• Grief and Cultural Competence: Jewish Traditions

• Embalming: Autopsies & Organ/Tissue Donors

• Embalming: Diseases & Conditions

• Communicable Disease and Funeral Professionals

   

  International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association

   

• 2018 Wide World of Sales Conference

   

  NFDA

   

• Post-it, Pause, and Prevail: Self-care for the Funeral Professional

• Do-It-Yourself Memorials (with a Little Help from the Funeral Director)

• NFDA Arranger Training Program – Various Locations in 2018

   

  International Order of the Golden Rule

   

• 2018 Young Professionals Event

   

  Memoriams by Ancestry

   

• Obituary Best Practices & The Newspaper Industry

   

   

  Open session for topics not reasonably anticipated 48 hours in advance of meeting:

   

   

  Reasonable accommodations or modifications will be provided to individuals with disabilities to participate in the Board in Registration in Embalming & Funeral Directing meeting. All requests should be directed to Cheryl Yebba by calling 617-727-4992 or TTY/TDD: (617) 727-2099 by 24 hours prior to the meeting. While the Division will attempt to honor all requests, those requests received after 24 hours to the meeting may not be provided due to feasibility.