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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
Number of blossaries: 0
Company Profile:
A professional who assigns dressing room facilities, locker space or clothing containers, and supplies to patrons of athletic or bathing establishment. Respnsibilities include: * Issues dressing room or locker key. * Receives patron's clothing-filled container, furnishes claim check, places container on storage shelf or rack, and returns container upon receipt of claim check. * Issues athletic equipment, bathing suit, or supplies, such as soap and towels. * May arrange for valet services, such as clothes pressing and shoeshining. * May collect soiled linen and perform cleaning tasks, such as mop dressing room floors, wash shower room walls and clean bathroom facilities. * May collect fees for use of facilities, equipment, or supplies. * May pack athletic uniforms and equipment for individual or team out-of-town sporting events. * May attend to needs of athletic team in team clubhouse and be designated Clubhouse Attendant. * May provide baseball players with baseball bats, retrieve bats and foul balls from field, and supply balls to game officials and be designated Bat Boy/Girl.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who serves patrons of lavatories in store, public building, hotel, or similar establishment by providing soap and towels, brushing patrons' clothing, shining shoes, sewing on loose buttons, and performing related services. * Replenishes rest room supplies. * May scrub lavatory, floors, walls, mirrors, and fixtures, using brushes, detergent, and water. * May administer first aid to ill or injured patrons.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who maintains building, such as locker room of golf club, change house of mining camp, or shower facilities of industrial plant, in which patrons or workers shower and change clothes. Respnsibilities include: * Sweeps floor and scrubs shower stalls, using broom, brushes, and soap and water. * Opens windows to control ventilation or adjusts controls of automatic heating, cooling, or dehumidifying unit to maintain healthful and comfortable conditions. * May fire boiler to heat water for bathing or heating facility. * May place contaminated work clothes in vacuum chamber for removal of toxic chemical dust. * May requisition and issue supplies, such as soap, towels, and protective clothing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in greeting, guiding, and serving patrons in amusement and recreation facilities. Respnsibilities include: * Formulates roster and personnel work assignments to assure work coverage. * Explains work procedures for subordinates. * Prepares written reports of operational activities to aid in planning future activities. * Verifies cleanliness of facilities and operability of equipment and forwards work order forms on equipment requiring maintenance or repair to management. * Inventories and orders supplies, checks and turns in receipts, and reviews correspondence. * Attends meeting to plan future operational activities and implementation of plans with other department heads.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who delivers, installs, demonstrates, and maintains rental medical equipment, such as respirator, oxygen equipment, hospital beds, and wheelchairs, for use in private residences. Respnsibilities include: * Loads medical equipment on truck and delivers equipment to renter's or patient's residence. * Unloads, installs, and sets up equipment, using handtools. * Inspects and maintains rental oxygen equipment, performing such tasks as inspecting hoses and water traps to detect leaks and condensation; observing gauges of oxygen analyzer, pressure gauges, and other monitoring equipment to determine pressure and oxygen content of air output of compressors and concentrators; and changing filters. * Maintains record on oxygen equipment by hours of usage to determine need for maintenance.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who acts as social partner for person of opposite sex to enable individual to attend functions, participate in activities requiring a partner, or provide companionship or protection while visiting public establishments, such as restaurants, night clubs, theaters, and gambling houses. * May suggest places of entertainment and arrange for transportation and tickets. * May speak one or more foreign languages. * May accompany individual on sightseeing tour.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists clients in devising and carrying out weight-loss plan, using established dietary programs and positive reinforcement procedures. Respnsibilities include: * Interviews client to obtain information on weight development history, eating habits, medical restrictions, and nutritional objectives. * Weighs and measures client, using measuring instruments, and enters data on client record. * Discusses eating habits with client to identify dispensable food items and to encourage increased consumption of high nutrition, low calorie food items, or selects established diet program which matches client goals and restrictions. * Explains program and procedures which should be followed to lose desired amount of weight, and answers client questions. * Reviews client food diary at regular intervals to identify eating habits which do not coincide with established or agreed upon dietary program, and reviews weight loss statistics to determine progress. * Counsels client to promote established goals and to reinforce positive results. * May photograph client during therapy to provide visual record of progress. * May conduct aversion therapy, utilizing electric shock, rancid odors, and other physical or visual stimuli to promote negative association with food designated for elimination from diet. * May conduct positive conditioning therapy sessions, utilizing physical and visual stimuli to promote positive association with foods designated for increase in diet. * May give client weight-loss aids, such as calorie counters, or sell nutritional products to be used in conjunction with diet program.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists clients in devising and carrying out weight-loss plan, using established dietary programs and positive reinforcement procedures. Respnsibilities include: * Interviews client to obtain information on weight development history, eating habits, medical restrictions, and nutritional objectives. * Weighs and measures client, using measuring instruments, and enters data on client record. * Discusses eating habits with client to identify dispensable food items and to encourage increased consumption of high nutrition, low calorie food items, or selects established diet program which matches client goals and restrictions. * Explains program and procedures which should be followed to lose desired amount of weight, and answers client questions. * Reviews client food diary at regular intervals to identify eating habits which do not coincide with established or agreed upon dietary program, and reviews weight loss statistics to determine progress. * Counsels client to promote established goals and to reinforce positive results. * May photograph client during therapy to provide visual record of progress. * May conduct aversion therapy, utilizing electric shock, rancid odors, and other physical or visual stimuli to promote negative association with food designated for elimination from diet. * May conduct positive conditioning therapy sessions, utilizing physical and visual stimuli to promote positive association with foods designated for increase in diet. * May give client weight-loss aids, such as calorie counters, or sell nutritional products to be used in conjunction with diet program.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who measures, weighs and records patron's body statistics, refers information to supervisor for evaluation and planning of exercise program, and demonstrates exercises and use of equipment. * Monitors member's exercise activities to assure progress toward desired goals. * Records patron's measurements periodically for re-evaluation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties to assist blind persons. Respnsibilities include: * Drives motor vehicle to transport blind persons to specified locations according to their personal and business activities. * Carries brief or sample cases. * Assists client with dressing, moving from one location to another, obtaining information, or other personal service. * Prepares and maintains records of assistance rendered. * May type correspondence and reports. * May assist teacher of blind in routine classroom activities such as toiletry or group school activities.
Industry:Professional careers