- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who inspects bedding materials and furniture padding to enforce public health laws and to investigate consumer complaints. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects premises and operations at furniture and bedding factories, warehouses, renovating plants, and sales outlets to ascertain compliance with state furniture and bedding sanitation laws.
* Examines labels on furniture and bedding items to ascertain compliance with fiber content and labeling regulations.
* Examines stock of used goods, condition of fumigation chambers, and use of prescribed chemicals.
* Conducts laboratory analyses on sample fibers, feathers, and materials to determine usability and cleanliness, utilizing standardized microscopic examination and chemical tests.
* May cite or arrest suspected violators and testify in court.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects government-owned equipment and materials in hands of private contractors to prevent waste, damage, theft, and other irregularities. Reviews inventory reports and similar records to detect discrepancies in utilization of materials. Recommends legal or administrative action to protect government property.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects industrial and commercial waste disposal facilities and investigates source of pollutants in municipal sewage and storm-drainage system to ensure conformance with ordinance and permit requirements. Responsibilities include:
* Visits establishments to determine possession of industrial waste permits and to inspect waste treatment facilities, such as floor drains, sand traps, settling and neutralizing tanks, and grease removal equipment for conformance with regulations.
* Extracts samples of waste from sewers, storm drains, and water courses for laboratory tests.
* Conducts field tests for acidity, alkalinity, and other characteristics to determine if discharged wastes will cause water pollution or deterioration of sewerage facilities.
* Inspects sewers and storm drains to determine presence of explosive gases, using gas-analysis equipment.
* Reviews plans of proposed waste-treatment facilities and inspects construction to ensure conformance with ordinances.
* Issues citations to apparent violators of sanitation code or water-quality regulations.
* Compiles written reports of investigations and findings, and actions taken or recommended.
* May enforce ordinances concerned with commercial hauling and disposal of contents from cesspools and septic tanks into sewers.
* May inspect water wells for contamination and conformance with legal construction standards, and order closing of unsanitary or unsafe wells.
* May inspect solid waste disposal facilities, such as sanitary landfills and chemical disposal sites.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects motor vehicles and cargoes for compliance with statutory regulations. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews employer records to determine that accidents, traffic violations, and medical information are recorded according to federal and state regulations.
* Advises shipper of methods to improve cargo security and record keeping to account for shortage or theft.
* Interprets applicable regulations and suggests method of self-inspection to accomplish voluntary compliance with code.
* Inspects vehicle systems, such as lights, brakes, tires, directional signals, exhaust systems, and warning devices, to detect excessive wear or malfunction.
* Measures interior and exterior noise levels, using decibel meter.
* Measures efficiency of emission-control devices, using electronic test apparatus.
* Reviews shipping papers to identify hazardous cargo, such as explosives, poisons, or combustibles.
* Inspects manner in which hazardous cargo is secured to prevent accidental spillage.
* Computes and records weight of commercial trucks at highway weigh station or uses portable scale to determine gross weight and distribution of load over axles.
* Reviews commercial vehicle log to verify driver has not exceeded allowable driving hours and required permits and licenses are displayed.
* Declares vehicle or driver out-of-service for violation of intra- or interstate commerce regulations.
* Inspects buses to determine compliance with public transport regulations.
* May accompany bus drivers to observe conduct and observance with safety precautions.
* May inspect establishments that rebuild containers used to hold hazardous materials.
* May testify in legal proceedings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who investigates regulated activities to assure compliance with federal, state, or municipal laws. Responsibilities include:
* Locates and interviews plaintiffs, witnesses, or representatives of business or government to gather facts relating to alleged violation.
* Observes conditions to verify facts indicating violation of law relating to such activities as revenue collection, employment practices, or fraudulent benefit claims.
* Examines business, personal, or public records and documents to establish facts and authenticity of data.
* Investigates character of applicant for special license or permit.
* Investigates suspected misuses of license or permit.
* Prepares correspondence and reports of investigations for use by administrative or legal authorities.
* Testifies in court or at administrative proceedings concerning findings of investigation.
* May serve legal papers.
* May be required to meet licensing or certification standards established by regulatory agency concerned.
* May be designated according to function or agency where employed as Inspector, Weights And Measures; Investigator, Internal Revenue; Investigator, Welfare; Postal Inspector; Investigator, Claims.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who visits establishments licensed by local governments to ascertain that valid licenses and permits are displayed and that licensing standards are being upheld. Prepares report on violators and recommends action. Warns violators of minor or unintentional infractions. May arrest violators. May be designated according to class of establishment visited as Rooming-House Inspector; Tavern Inspector.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects contract logging operations to ensure adherence to contract provisions and safety laws and to prevent loss of timber through breakage and damage to residual stand. Responsibilities include:
* Examines logging area for utilization practices, slash disposal, sanitation, observance of boundaries, and safety precautions.
* Issues remedial instructions for violations of contract agreement and fire and safety regulations, and prepares report of logging method, efficiency, and progress.
* May initiate bid requests and negotiate terms of contracts with logging contractors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects underground or open-pit mines to ascertain compliance with contractual agreements and with health and safety laws. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects for rotted or incorrectly placed timbers, dangerously placed or defective electrical and mechanical equipment, improperly stored explosives, and other hazardous conditions.
* Tests air quality to detect toxic or explosive gas or dust, using portable gas-analysis equipment, in order to control health hazards and to reduce injuries and fatalities.
* Observes mine activities to detect violations of federal and state health and safety standards.
* Inspects mine workings to verify compliance with contractual agreements concerning production rates or mining within specified limits.
* May instruct mine workers in safety and first aid procedures.
* May be designated according to type of mine inspected as Coal-Mine Inspector; Metal-Mine Inspector.
* May specialize in inspection of specific conditions and be designated Gas Inspector.
* When employed by governmental agency (instead of mine operator), conducts periodic mine inspections specifically to enforce federal or state mining laws and is known as Mine Inspector, Federal; Mine Inspector, State.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects mortuaries for sanitary conditions, equipment and procedures, and competence of personnel. Examines registration credentials of trainees and licenses of funeral directors to ensure compliance with state licensing requirements. Investigates complaints and recommends license revocation or other action. May be required to hold mortician's license.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects establishments where agricultural service products, such as livestock feed and remedies, fertilizers, and pesticides, are manufactured, sold, or used to ensure conformance to laws regulating product quality and labeling. Responsibilities include:
* Visits processing plants, distribution warehouses, sales outlets, agricultural pest control service organizations, and farmers to collect product samples for analysis and to examine fresh and dried produce for spray residue.
* Inspects product label information concerning ingredients and advertising claims for conformance to chemical analysis of ingredients and documented effects of use.
* Investigates suspected violations of product quality and labeling laws.
* Interviews farmers, merchants, and others to determine nature of suspected violations and to obtain documented evidence to be used in legal action against violators.
* Calls on dealers to determine that licensing requirements have been met, and calls on manufacturers and distributors to collect delinquent tonnage reports.
* Prepares reports of all inspections and investigations for review by supervisory personnel and for use as evidence in legal action initiated by others.
Industry:Professional careers
