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Sensory, physical and mental requirements |
Each task of a job will require one or more sensory, physical or mental capacities. To identify these sensory, physical or mental requirements it is important to focus on required outcomes rather than traditional methods of performing specific tasks; there are a number of ways to perform a task in order to achieve a desired outcome.
For example, filing in a bottom file drawer may have been performed traditionally by bending, stooping, or squatting, depending upon the personal preference of the individual performing the task. A non-traditional approach to perform this task could involve the use of a short, stable stool to enable the individual to perform the task while seated.
- Analysis: Analyzing involves examining and evaluating data. Also, it involves presenting alternative actions in relation to the evaluation.
- Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or running on slippery or moving surfaces.
- Bending or stooping: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the back at the waist.
- Climbing: Going up or down ladders, stairs, scaffolding, poles or ropes.
- Comprehension: Comprehending involves understanding direction and adhering to established procedures.
- Coordination: Coordinating involves determining the time, place and sequence of operations or action to be taken on the basis of the analysis of data.
- Crawling: Moving while on hands and knees.
- Creating procedures or goals: This involves the analysis of a body of knowledge and the development of a description of the sequence of action necessary to achieve an objective.
- Evaluation: Evaluating involves judging the readily observable characteristics of data, people, or things.
- Feeling: Involves perceiving characteristics of objects and materials such as size, shape, temperature or texture through the sense of touch.
- Fingering dexterity: Picking, pinching, or otherwise moving fingers to manipulate items such as a keyboard, a calculator, or a sewing machine.
- Grasping
- Handling dexterity:
Holding, grasping, turning or working with the hands in other ways. Examples include: machine operation, shifting vehicle gears, carrying objects, and use of tools. - Hearing: Perceiving sounds.
- Instructing: Teaching subject matter to others or training others through explanation, demonstration, or supervised practice.
- Jumping: Moving up off the ground or floor by springing with both legs and feet.
- Keying
- Kneeling:
Bending the legs at the knees to come to rest on the knee or knees. - Lifting or carrying: Lifting requires the raising or lowering of an object from one level to another. Carrying involves supporting the weight of an object while walking.
- Mathematics: The performance of arithmetic operations and reporting on and/or carrying out a prescribed action in relation to them. Please describe the functions to be performed. Examples include: adding numbers; dividing dollar amounts; measuring items; performing statistical computations using formulas; and, performing analyses using geometry, algebra, or calculus.
- Negotiation: Negotiating involves exchanging ideas, information, and opinions with others to formulate policies and programs and arrive jointly at decisions, conclusions, or solutions.
- Organizing: Involves gathering, collating, or classifying information about data, people, or things.
- Persuasion: This involves influencing others in favor of a product, service, or a point of view.
- Pinching
- Planning:
Planning involves determining time, place, and sequence of actions on the basis of analysis of data. - Pushing or pulling: Pushing involves moving an object by pressing against it to move it away or ahead. Pulling involves exerting force upon an object to cause it to move towards you.
- Reaching: Extending the hands and arms. (Please list direction and dimensions of the reaching activity).
- Reading comprehension: Reading comprehension involves interpreting written information such as technical reports and manuals, manuscripts, mailing addresses, city maps, or written directions/warnings.
- Reasoning: Using logic to analyze data to make generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on judgmental criteria.
- Recognition: Recognizing involves comprehending sensory and informational input to enable identification of people or things.
- Seeing: Obtaining impressions through the eyes of the shape, size, distance, motion, color or other characteristics of objects. (Please list distance of item to be seen and if depth perception is necessary).
- Selecting: Selecting involves choosing or grouping items based on their specific characteristics.
- Sitting: Remaining in a normal seated position.
- Squatting: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the legs at the hips and the knees.
- Standing: Remaining on one's feet in an upright position without moving about.
- Supervision: Supervising involves determining or interpreting work procedures for a group of workers; assigning specific duties to the group; maintaining harmonious relations among them; and promoting efficiency. A variety of types of responsibilities is involved in this function.
- Synthesis: Synthesizing involves integrating the analyses of data to discover facts and/or develop knowledge concepts or interpretations.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.
- Turning
- Twisting
- Walking:
Moving about on foot. - Writing: Involves preparing information or documents such as grant proposals, technical reports, press releases, memos, letters, program brochures, or recording telephone messages.
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