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51-9198.00 - Helpers--Production Workers   Bright Outlook Bright Outlook  

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Wash work areas, machines, equipment, vehicles, or products.

51-4193.00 Plating and Coating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
  • Rinse coated objects in cleansing liquids and dry them with cloths, centrifugal driers, or by tumbling in sawdust-filled barrels.
  • Operate sandblasting equipment to roughen and clean surfaces of workpieces.
  • Clean and maintain equipment, using water hoses and scrapers.
  • Clean workpieces, using wire brushes.
  • Perform equipment maintenance, such as cleaning tanks and lubricating moving parts of conveyors.
51-6091.00 Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers
  • Remove excess, entangled, or completed filaments from machines, using hand tools.
  • Remove polymer deposits from spinnerettes and equipment, using silicone spray, brass chisels, and bronze-wool pads.
  • Clean and maintain extruding and forming machines, using hand tools.
  • Wipe finish rollers with cloths and wash finish trays with water when necessary.
51-9123.00 Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers
  • Clean and maintain tools and equipment, using solvents, brushes, and rags.
  • Clean surfaces of workpieces in preparation for coating, using cleaning fluids, solvents, brushes, scrapers, steam, sandpaper, or cloth.
  • Rinse, drain, or wipe coated workpieces to remove excess coating material or to facilitate setting of finish coats on workpieces.
51-9011.00 Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders   Green Occupation Green
  • Add treating or neutralizing agents to products and pump products through filters or centrifuges to remove impurities or to precipitate products.
  • Drain equipment and pump water or other solutions through to flush and clean tanks or equipment.
  • Flush or clean equipment, using steam hoses or mechanical reamers.
51-4121.07 Solderers and Brazers Green Occupation
  • Clean workpieces to remove dirt or excess acid, using chemical solutions, files, wire brushes, or grinders.
  • Clean joints of workpieces with wire brushes or by dipping them into cleaning solutions.
  • Clean equipment parts, such as tips of soldering irons, using chemical solutions or cleaning compounds.

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