Enforce rules or regulations
Little of this can be handed to software today.
This happens in the physical world, so software agents do not touch it. Automation here means robotics and machinery, which is a different market from the one mapped on this site, on a much slower clock.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Physical, manual and inspection work |
| Jobs that do it | 11 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | None |
| O*NET activity | Performing General Physical Activities (4.A.3.a.1) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 11 occupations that perform it.
- Manage safety programs at power generation facilities.
- Remove suspected cheaters, such as card counters or other players who may have systems that shift the odds of winning to their favor.
- Initiate procedures to close down or fine establishments violating environmental or health regulations.
- Enforce traffic laws regarding the transit system and reprimand individuals who violate them.
- Check identification of customers to verify age requirements for purchase of alcohol.
- Check patrons' identification to ensure that they meet minimum age requirements for consumption of alcoholic beverages.
- Enforce safety rules, and report or remove safety hazards as well as guests who are underage, intoxicated, disruptive, or cheating.
- Explain and enforce safety rules and regulations governing sports, recreational activities, and the use of exercise equipment.
- Enforce rules and regulations of recreational facilities to maintain discipline and ensure safety.
- Enforce rules and regulations to ensure the smooth and orderly operation of dormitory programs.
- Enforce safety and sanitation regulations.
- Attempt to limit problems and liability related to customers' excessive drinking by taking steps such as persuading customers to stop drinking, or ordering taxis or other transportation for intoxicated patrons.
- Ask customers who become loud and obnoxious to leave, or physically remove them.
What we would actually use
Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.
Nothing on this site applies. Automation here is robotics and machinery, a different market on a much slower clock, and no software subscription moves 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.
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
11 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Bartenders
- Biomass Power Plant Managers
- Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health
- Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors
- First-Line Supervisors of Gambling Services Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
- Gambling Managers
- Recreation Workers
- Residential Advisors
- Transit and Railroad Police
- Waiters and Waitresses
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Maintain safety or security”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
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.