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O*NET detailed work activityEvaluate log quality
Stays humanWatch & inspect
3 jobs5 tasks
Inspecting and monitoring in person means noticing what's off with your own eyes, ears and hands, and being accountable for calling it.
Part of Evaluate production inputs or outputs, under the O*NET work activity group Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 5 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Evaluate log characteristics and determine grades, using established criteria.
- Assess logs after cutting to ensure that the quality and length are correct.
- Jab logs with metal ends of scale sticks, and inspect logs to ascertain characteristics or defects such as water damage, splits, knots, broken ends, rotten areas, twists, and curves.
- Grade logs according to characteristics such as knot size and straightness, and according to established industry or company standards.
- Identify logs of substandard or special grade so that they can be returned to shippers, regraded, recut, or transferred for other processing.