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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 performs any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include: * Scrubs and washes surgical instruments, containers, and equipment, such as aspirators and suction units. * Sterilizes instruments, equipment, surgical linens, and supplies, such as surgical packs and treatment trays, using autoclave, sterilizer, or antiseptic solutions. * Prepares packs of supplies, instruments, and dressing and treatment trays, according to designated lists or codes, and wraps, labels, and seals packs. * Stores prepared articles and supplies in designated areas. * Fills requisitions, writes charges, and inventories supplies. * May be assigned to hospital areas, such as surgery and delivery rooms.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who keeps premises of office building, apartment house, or other commercial or institutional building in clean and orderly condition. Respnsibilities include: * Cleans and polishes lighting fixtures, marble surfaces, and trim, and performs duties described in cleaner i master title. * May cut and trim grass, and shovel snow, using power equipment or handtools. * May deliver messages. * May transport small equipment or tools between departments. * May setup tables and chairs in auditorium or hall. * May be designated according to duties performed as Hall Cleaner; Light-Fixture Cleaner; Marble Cleaner; Metal Polisher; Paint Cleaner; or according to equipment used as Scrubbing-Machine Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who keeps working areas in production departments of industrial establishment in clean and orderly condition, performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include: * Transports raw materials and semifinished products or supplies between departments or buildings to supply machine tenders or operators with materials for processing, using handtruck. * Arranges boxes, material, and handtrucks or other industrial equipment in neat and orderly manner. * Cleans lint, dust, oil, and grease from machines, overhead pipes, and conveyors, using brushes, airhoses, or steam cleaner. * Cleans screens and filters. * Scrubs processing tanks and vats. * Cleans floors, using water hose, and applies floor drier. * Picks up reusable scrap for salvage and stores in containers. * Performs other duties as described under cleaner i master title. * May burn waste and clean incinerator. * May pick up refuse from plant grounds and maintain area by cutting grass or shoveling snow. * May operate industrial truck to transport materials within plant. * May start pumps to force cleaning solution through production machinery, piping, or vats. * May start pumps to lubricate machines. * May be designated according to area cleaned as Alley Cleaner; Can-Filling-Room Sweeper; Casting-And-Locker-Room Servicer; Ceiling Cleaner; Engine-Room Cleaner; Floor Cleaner; Overhead Cleaner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans laboratory equipment, such as glassware, metal instruments, sinks, tables, and test panels, using solvents, brushes, and rags. Respnsibilities include: * Mixes water and detergents or acids in container to prepare cleaning solution according to specifications. * Washes, rinses, and dries glassware and instruments, using water, acetone bath, and cloth or hot-air drier. * Scrubs walls, floors, shelves, tables, and sinks, using cleaning solution and brush. * May sterilize glassware and instruments, using autoclave. * May fill tubes and bottles with specified solutions and apply identification labels. * May label and file microscope slides. * May arrange specimens and samples on trays to be placed in incubators and refrigerators. * May deliver supplies and laboratory specimens to designated work areas, using handtruck. * May tend still that supplies laboratory with distilled water. * May be designated Glass Washer, Laboratory when cleaning glassware. * May maintain inventory reports and logs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans interior walls and ceilings of offices, apartments, and other buildings, by hand or by use of wall-washing machine. Respnsibilities include: * Cleans walls and ceilings by hand, using sponge and soapy water or chemical solution, or presses lever in nozzle of machine to control flow of solution and moves nozzle fitted with porous pad over surfaces, exerting sufficient pressure to remove dirt and grease. * May estimate cost of cleaning walls and submit bids.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sweeps floors of cotton-bale compressing plant. * Gathers loose cotton from floor. * Carries or transfers light equipment to various workers, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans, waxes, and polishes floors by hand or machine. Respnsibilities include: * Removes dirt and blemishes from floor, using various cleaning solvents and compounds, according to composition of floor. * Applies paste or liquid wax to floor with rags or machine. * Polishes floor with electric polishing machine or weighted brush.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in maintenance of chemical plant. * Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who keeps hotel, office building, apartment house, or similar building in clean and orderly condition and tends furnace, air-conditioner, and boiler to provide heat, cool air, and hot water for tenants, performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include: * Sweeps, mops, scrubs, and vacuums hallways, stairs and office space. * Regulates flow of fuel into automatic furnace or shovels coal into hand-fired furnace. * Empties tenants' trash and garbage containers. * Maintains building, performing minor and routine painting, plumbing, electrical wiring, and other related maintenance activities, using handtools. * Replaces air-conditioner filters. * Cautions tenants regarding complaints about excessive noise, disorderly conduct, or misuse of property. * Notifies management concerning need for major repairs or additions to lighting, heating, and ventilating equipment. * Cleans snow and debris from sidewalk. * Mows lawn, trims shrubbery, and cultivates flowers, using handtools and power tools. * Posts signs to advertise vacancies and shows empty apartments to prospective tenants. * May reside on property and be designated Manager, Resident.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who releases poisonous gas and sets traps in buildings to kill dry-wood termites, beetles, vermin, and other pests, using cylinders of compressed gas and mechanical traps. Respnsibilities include: * Inspects infested building to identify pests causing damage and to determine treatment necessary. * Examines porosity of walls and roof, based on knowledge of construction techniques, to determine method of sealing house. * Measures inside dimensions of rooms with rule, and calculates volume of fumigant required and cost to owner. * Tapes vents. * Climbs ladder, pulls tarpaulins over building, and fastens edges of tarpaulins with clamps to make building airtight. * Posts warning signs and padlocks doors. * Turns valve on cylinder to discharge gas into building through hose. * Holds halide lamp near seams of tarpaulins and building vents to detect leaking fumigant. * Sprays or dusts chemicals in rooms or work areas and sets mechanical traps to destroy pests. * May fumigate clothing and house furnishing in vaults at business establishment.
Industry:Professional careers