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Job Conditions

Learn about the most important job conditions for Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic.
Importance*More Info
1.Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment100
2.Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable96
3.Exposed to Contaminants90
4.Exposed to Hazardous Equipment89
5.Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle Objects, Tools, or Controls85
6.Importance of Being Exact or Accurate83
7.Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment82
Contact With Others82
9.Spend Time Standing76
10.Importance of Repeating Same Tasks74
* Importance out of 100

Job Condition Scores

Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment
How much does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or live jackets?
100
Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable
How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable?
96
Exposed to Contaminants
How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)?
90
Exposed to Hazardous Equipment
How often does this job require exposure to hazardous equipment?
89
Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle Objects, Tools, or Controls
How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls?
85
Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job?
83
Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment
How important is it to this job that the pace is determined by the speed of equipment or machinery? (This does not refer to keeping busy at all times on this job.)
82
Contact With Others
How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it?
82
Spend Time Standing
How much does this job require standing?
76
Importance of Repeating Same Tasks
How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job?
74