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O*NET detailed work activityEvaluate quality of materials or products
Stays humanWatch & inspect
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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, 2 AI-assist, 27 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Verify that paper and ink meet the specifications for a given job.
- Taste or smell foods or beverages to ensure that flavors meet specifications or to select samples with specific characteristics.
- Perform quality checks on products and parts.
- Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications.
- Check raw ingredients for maturity or stability for processing, and finished products for safety, quality, and nutritional value.
- Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.
- Perform visual inspections of finished products.
- Assess the quality of biofuels additives for reprocessing.
- Verify that raw materials, purchased parts or components, in-process samples, and finished products meet established testing and inspection standards.
- Schedule and receive food and beverage deliveries, checking delivery contents to verify product quality and quantity.
- Set and monitor product standards, examining samples of raw products or directing testing during processing, to ensure finished products are of prescribed quality.
- Assign polish, symmetry, and clarity grades to stones, according to established grading systems.
- Receive and inspect raw materials.
- Draw samples of biofuels products or secondary by-products for quality control testing.
- Assess quality of biomass feedstock.
- Grade stones based on their color, perfection, and quality of cut.
- Test cooked food by tasting and smelling it to ensure palatability and flavor conformity.
- Check adhesives to ensure that they will work and will remain durable.
- Check the texture, color, and strength of leather to ensure that it is adequate for a particular purpose.
- Examine costume fit on cast members and sketch or write notes for alterations.
- Reject defective products and readjust equipment to eliminate problems.
- Collect and analyze production samples to evaluate quality.
- Evaluate new products for usefulness and suitability.
- Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.
- Evaluate and select information or other technology solutions to improve tracking and reporting of materials or products distribution, storage, or inventory.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Collect biofuels samples and perform routine laboratory tests or analyses to assess biofuels quality.
- Evaluate feasibility of design ideas, based on factors such as appearance, safety, function, serviceability, budget, production costs/methods, and market characteristics.
- Grade, classify, or sort products according to sizes, weights, colors, or other specifications.
- Conduct, or oversee the conduct of, chemical, physical, and biological water quality monitoring or sampling to ensure compliance with water quality standards.