Monitor operational quality or safety
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 | 12 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | None |
| O*NET activity | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings (4.A.1.a.2) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 12 occupations that perform it.
- Monitor environments to ensure maintenance of optimum animal or plant life.
- Monitor operations to ensure compliance with applicable health, safety, or hygiene standards.
- Perform quality assurance system checks, such as calibrations, on treatment planning computers.
- Monitor game operations to ensure that house rules are followed, that tribal, state, and federal regulations are adhered to, and that employees provide prompt and courteous service.
- Supervise staff and monitor gambling tables to ensure security of the game.
- Monitor operations to ensure that standards for sound and image projection quality are met.
- Monitor activities to ensure adherence to rules and safety procedures, or arrange for the removal of unruly patrons.
- Recommend vendors and monitor their work.
- View monitors for visual representation of work in progress and for instructions and feedback throughout process, making modifications as necessary.
- Monitor operations to identify and solve problems, improve work methods, and ensure compliance with safety, company, and government regulations.
- Check to ensure that brake examination tests are conducted at shunting stations.
- Observe packages moving along conveyors to identify packages, detect defective packaging, and perform quality control.
- Monitor payment of hand-delivered jackpots to ensure promptness.
- Monitor stations and games and move dealers from game to game to ensure adequate staffing.
- Monitor functioning of slot machine coin dispensers and fill coin hoppers when necessary.
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
12 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Amusement and Recreation Attendants
- Conveyor Operators and Tenders
- Costume Attendants
- Desktop Publishers
- Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
- First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Gambling Services Workers
- Gambling Dealers
- Locomotive Engineers
- Medical Dosimetrists
- Motion Picture Projectionists
- Spa Managers
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Monitor operations to ensure adequate performance”. 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.