Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 239 CMR - BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING AND FUNERAL DIRECTING › Title 239 CMR 3.00 - Registration Requirements; Standards of Business and Professional Practice › Section 3.07 - Preparation Room

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(1) Every Licensed
			 Funeral Establishment shall have at least one preparation room for the
			 preparation for burial or other disposition of all dead human bodies. Said
			 preparation room shall be at least 12' x 14' in size for any new construction
			 after January 1, 2008. Preparation rooms shall be locked at all
			 times.
(2) No person shall be
			 allowed in the preparation room while a dead human body is being prepared for
			 burial or other final disposition except persons duly registered or licensed by
			 the Board pursuant to M.G.L. c. 112, §§ 82 through 87, public
			 officials engaged in the discharge of their official duties, students who are
			 duly enrolled in a recognized mortuary school, and members of the decedent's
			 immediate family or persons authorized by them in writing. The provisions of
			 239 CMR 3.07(2) shall be printed on a placard and conspicuously displayed or
			 posted on the exterior of each door to each preparation room in the Licensed
			 Funeral Establishment. Failure to post said placards shall constitute grounds
			 for disciplinary action by the Board.
(3) Each preparation room in a Licensed
			 Funeral Establishment shall be equipped with a tile or cement floor. Rubber
			 tile, rubber matting or linoleum may be used provided that it is not less than
			 3/16" thick, and that, if it is used as a floor covering, it is laid over a
			 floor constructed of cement or other waterproof substance. Wooden floors
			 overlaid with metal or other waterproof materials may be accepted in
lieu
of cement floors.
(4) Each preparation room shall also contain
			 the following: one standard-type sanitary operating table; one flush-rim sink,
			 one floor drain; one reduced pressure or air gap separation backflow prevention
			 device located at the water meter or property line; one sanitary waste
			 receptacle which is opened by a foot pedal; and a standard-type instrument
			 sterilizer.
(5) Every preparation
			 room shall comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws,
			 regulations and ordinances regarding ventilation and, in the absence of such
			 laws, shall be ventilated so as to ensure that no deleterious odors are allowed
			 to remain therein and that the odors there from are not permitted to enter into
			 any other part of the Licensed Funeral Establishment or any part of any
			 adjoining premises.
(6) An
			 embalmer's kit shall contain, at a minimum, all items which are reasonably
			 necessary for proper embalming and/or preparation of a dead human body for
			 burial, cremation or other final disposition in light of currently accepted
			 standards of professional practice.
(7) All equipment which is used to aspirate
			 or remove blood or other potentially infectious materials, as defined in
			 239 CMR
			 3.12, or which comes into contact with blood
			 or other potentially infectious materials, shall be maintained and used in a
			 manner which prevents conversion of blood or other potentially infectious
			 materials to aerosol or airborne particles.