General Schedule Position Classification Standard		Classification Programs Division
Draft Job Family Standard for Administrative Work in the Investigation, Enforcement, Inspection, and Compliance Group, GS-1800
Release Date:  December 2001 - DRAFT		Section Eighteen of Thirty-One

Contents

FACTOR 8 PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Note:  Laws and regulations governing pay for irregular or intermittent duty involving unusual physical hardship or hazard are in section 5545(d), of title 5, United States Code, and Subpart I of part 550 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations.

Note:  In the text below, factor level description is abbreviated as FLD.

The work is mainly sedentary, but may require some walking, travel, and carrying of lightweight items such as briefcases, notebooks, and work papers.

In addition to duties normally performed sitting at a desk, the work involves occasional visits to industrial, commercial, construction, agricultural, and other business establishments. Some walking over rough, uneven terrain may be required to reach the work site.

Factor Level 8-2, 20 Points

The work involves long periods of standing and recurring stooping and bending such as is typical at land border ports-of-entry or airports-of-entry. The work can require frequent and recurring surveillance in which there is a considerable amount of walking, stooping, bending, and climbing. Periods when the individual is permitted to sit are not in normal offices, and the individual is not free to come and go as necessary. The employee may be required to remain in one location for many hours without relief. The work may also include frequent lifting of moderately heavy objects such as luggage or boxes in cargo containers.

Factor Level 8-3, 50 Points

The work requires considerable and strenuous physical exertion such as long periods of standing, walking, and running over rough, rocky, uneven, and hazardous terrain: crawling in restrictive areas such as culverts; climbing fences, walls, and freight train ladders; and driving all-terrain vehicles cross country and over rough terrain. Employees must also be prepared to protect themselves or others from physical attacks at any time and without warning and resort to the use of firearms only as a last resort.

FACTOR 9 WORK ENVIRONMENT

Note:  Laws and regulations governing pay for irregular or intermittent duty involving unusual physical hardship or hazard are in section 5545(d), of title 5, United States Code, and Subpart I of part 550 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations.

Note:  In the text below, factor level description is abbreviated as FLD.

The work area is usually an office setting that is adequately lighted, heated, and ventilated. The work environment involves everyday risks or discomforts that require normal safety precautions. Some employees may occasionally be exposed to uncomfortable conditions in facilities such as production facilities and warehouses.

Factor Level 9-2, 20 Points

The work is mostly performed in such settings as:

• outdoors on land and at sea in all types of weather;
• at dockside on fishing vessels during catch-landing operations;
• at fish processing houses;
• on board aerial or surface patrol craft; at ports of entry; and
• at cold storage facilities and warehouses.

The work involves such conditions as:

The work involves on site inspections/investigations of various types of establishments (distilled spirits plants, wineries, breweries, tobacco products factories, other manufacturers, explosives storage magazines, or firearms dealers) in locations ranging from large cities to rural areas where the employee is in such settings as:

• outdoors in extremely high humidity and high and low temperatures;
• around potentially dangerous machinery, equipment, and products; and
• in areas with high crime rates.

Factor Level 9-3, 50 Points

The work is involves:

• high risks of exposure to potentially dangerous and stressful situations such as high speed vehicle pursuits, boarding moving trains and vessels;
• involvement in physical altercations or even the use of lethal weapons while attempting to arrest suspects;
• long and irregular hours, weekends, and nights, and frequent changes in shifts or duty locations; and
• assignments that alternate between extremely cold, mountainous terrain and extremely hot arid deserts.