Handbook of Occupational Groups and Families		Classification Programs Division
Release Date:  August 2001		Section Forty-one of Sixty-six

    4100 - PAINTING AND PAPERHANGING FAMILY   

This job family includes occupations that involve hand or spray painting and decorating interiors and exteriors of buildings, structures, aircraft, vessels, mobile equipment, fixtures, furnishings, machinery, and other surfaces; finishing hardwoods, furniture, and cabinetry; painting signs; covering interiors of rooms with strips of wallpaper or fabric, etc.

Throughout the following information, an asterisk (*) stands for series with a published standard and a double asterisk (**) stands for series with a published flysheet.

Occupations in this family are:

4102 Painting*

This occupation includes jobs involved in applying coating materials (for example, paint, varnish, lacquer, shellac, epoxy resin, and Teflon) on wood, metal, glass, synthetic, concrete, and other surfaces. This coating work is done with brushes, rollers, spray guns, and other related methods and techniques, and is performed on the inside and outside of buildings, aircraft, vessels, mobile equipment, fittings, furnishings, machinery, and other surfaces.

4103 Paperhanging

This occupation includes jobs involved in the papering or covering of room interiors with strips of wallpaper or fabric.

4104 Sign Painting*

This occupation includes jobs that involve producing signs and posters, decorating models and displays, painting markings on vehicles, ships, or aircraft, or performing other functions requiring skill in lettering. The work involves the ability to design, layout, and decorate signs and execute freehand and mechanical lettering, and skill in various production techniques such as silk screen printing, application of reflective sheeting, and lettering with machines.