Mary Tavy Parish Cemetery: Headstone Inspection Programme May 2023
Notice is hereby given that all headstones in Mary Tavy Parish Cemetery will be inspected for stability during May 2023.
This will involve a basic hand test to determine if there is movement in the headstone and to what extent. The test will be carried out by a trained staff member who has completed the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management’s (ICCM) course in memorial inspection.
Grave owners will be notified if a problem is found.
The staff member undertaking the assessment will make a decision on the memorial’s overall safety based on a dynamic risk assessment for which they have been trained. Once inspected, each memorial will fall into one of three categories- 1, 2 or 3. For more detail on the category system that will be used, please download the Memorial Management Policy below.
