R156-9-401. Facility/Staff Requirements

  (1) The funeral service establishment is responsible for the maintenance and safe operation of equipment used in funeral services and to insure that the facility is in compliance with the local or state health, fire and life safety codes. All funeral service establishments shall be kept and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition, and all refrigeration units, embalming tables, sinks, receptacles, instruments, and other appliances used in embalming, cremation, or alkaline hydrolysis of dead human bodies shall be thoroughly cleansed and disinfected.

  (2) The funeral service director is responsible to comply with the standards established by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for the Federal Government and for the State of Utah.

  (3) A funeral establishment or a number of funeral establishments under one management shall contain:

  (a) a preparation room equipped with tile, cement, or composition floor, necessary drainage and ventilation. Every preparation room shall be provided with proper and convenient receptacles for refuse, bandages, cotton and other waste materials and supplies. All refuse, bandages, cotton, and other waste materials shall be destroyed in a sanitary manner, in accordance with health regulations.

  (b) necessary instruments, supplies and proper protective clothing for the preparation and embalming of dead human bodies for burial, transportation, or other disposition.

  (4) The care and preparation of the body for burial or other disposition of all human dead bodies shall be strictly private. No one shall be allowed in the embalming room while a dead body is being embalmed, except the licensed embalmer, intern, staff, public officials in the discharge of their duties and upon request, members of the immediate family of the deceased.