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O*NET detailed work activityRelay information about incidents or emergencies to personnel using phones or two-way radios
Stays humanBe there for people
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This depends on human connection: empathy, trust, being physically present and responding to someone in real time. People can tell the difference.
Part of Notify others of emergencies or problems, under the O*NET work activity group Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 7 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Maintain close communications with dispatching personnel, using two-way radios or cell phones.
- Relay complaint and emergency-request information to appropriate agency dispatchers.
- Relay messages about emergencies, accidents, locations of crew and personnel, and fire hazard conditions.
- Communicate fire details to superiors, subordinates, or interagency dispatch centers, using two-way radios.
- Respond to and make radio dispatch calls regarding parking violations and complaints.
- Assess fires and situations and report conditions to superiors to receive instructions, using two-way radios.