Develop safety standards, policies, or procedures
Most of the output can be produced by software today.
Producing the draft is the single thing current models are best at, and it needs no integration at all: a prompt and a couple of reference documents are enough. A person still edits it and takes responsibility for what goes out.
| How automatable | Mostly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Drafting and content production |
| Jobs that do it | 10 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Generalist agents, Builders |
| O*NET activity | Thinking Creatively (4.A.2.b.2) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 10 occupations that perform it.
- Assess risks to mitigate potential consequences of incidents and develop a plan to respond to incidents.
- Plan, develop, or implement warehouse safety and security programs and activities.
- Review and interpret government codes and develop procedures to meet codes and to ensure facility safety, security, and maintenance.
- Review and interpret government codes, and develop programs to ensure adherence to codes and facility safety, security, and maintenance.
- Develop and implement training procedures and strategies for radiological protection, detection, and decontamination.
- Design security policies, programs, or practices to ensure adequate security relating to alarm response, access card use, and other security needs.
- Develop safety procedures to be employed by workers operating equipment or working in close proximity to ongoing chemical reactions.
- Develop industry standards of product safety.
- Develop pest management and control measures, and conduct risk assessments related to pest exclusion, using scientific methods.
- Develop industrial standards and regulatory guidelines.
- Create or implement security standards, policies, and procedures.
- Write and revise safety regulations and codes.
- Develop, recommend, or manage security procedures for operations or processes, such as security call centers, access control, and reporting tools.
- Plan, direct, or coordinate security activities to safeguard company employees, guests, or others on company property.
What we would actually use
One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for drafting and content production, and what it costs.
Drafting needs no tools, no integration and no platform. One $20 assistant and two reference documents beat any agent builder here, and every extra thing in this stack is cost with nothing behind it.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Generalist agents
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
10 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Biologists
- Chemical Engineers
- Commercial and Industrial Designers
- Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
- Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
- Emergency Management Directors
- Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors
- Security Management Specialists
- Security Managers
- Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Develop safety standards, policies, or procedures”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
| Activity | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Establish rules or policies governing student behavior | 15 |
| Develop healthcare quality and safety procedures | 4 |
| Develop fire safety or prevention programs or plans | 4 |
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.