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Job Conditions

Learn about the most important job conditions for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders.
Importance*More Info
1.Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment100
2.Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle Objects, Tools, or Controls90
Spend Time Standing90
Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable90
5.Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions88
6.Exposed to Contaminants83
7.Importance of Being Exact or Accurate78
Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body78
9.Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment76
Contact With Others76
* 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
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?
90
Spend Time Standing
How much does this job require standing?
90
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?
90
Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions
How much does this job require making repetitive motions?
88
Exposed to Contaminants
How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)?
83
Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job?
78
Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body
How much does this job require bending or twisting your body?
78
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.)
76
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?
76