How do they match: Transportation Security Screeners

  • Conduct screening of passengers, baggage, or cargo to ensure compliance with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) regulations. May operate basic security equipment such as x-ray machines and hand wands at screening checkpoints.

  • Ask passengers to remove shoes and divest themselves of metal objects prior to walking through metal detectors.
  • Confiscate dangerous items and hazardous materials found in opened bags and turn them over to airlines for disposal.
  • Inform other screeners when baggage should not be opened because it might contain explosives.
  • Perform pat-down or hand-held wand searches of passengers who have triggered machine alarms, who are unable to pass through metal detectors, or who have been randomly identified for such searches.

  • Determine operational procedures.