A printable step-by-step checklist to specify and evaluate body bags for hospitals, mortuaries, municipalities and emergency services.
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Independent, practical guidance on body bags, human remains pouches and funeral shrouds for hospitals, mortuaries, funeral homes, forensic services, emergency responders and procurement officers in South Africa.
How to store body bag stock, and how bags interact with mortuary refrigeration, including South African temperature requirements.
Why identification fails, and how ID tags, label pockets and documentation keep identity attached to the remains from death to burial.
Protecting staff from injury and exposure when lifting and moving remains in body bags: PPE, team lifting, equipment and training.
What international and South African guidance says about when body bags are needed for infection prevention – and when they are not.
How body bags support evidence integrity in unnatural-death investigations: clean bags, tamper-evident seals, documentation and handovers.
Planning body bag stock and procedures for floods, fires, transport disasters and other mass-fatality events, following WHO and ICRC principles.
Cloth shrouds and plastic body bags serve different purposes. Here is when each is used and how they can work together.
Respecting diverse traditions – African, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Christian and others – when handling the deceased in body bags.
An overview of the Regulations Relating to the Management of Human Remains (GN R.363 of 2013) under the National Health Act, focused on containment, transport, storage and PPE.