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

    6900 - WAREHOUSING AND STOCK HANDLING FAMILY   

This job family includes occupations involved in physically receiving, storing, handling, and issuing supplies, materials, and equipment; handling, marking, and displaying goods for selection by customers; identifying and condition classifying materials and equipment; and routing and expediting movement of parts, supplies, and materials in production and repair facilities.

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:

6903 Coal Handling

This occupation includes jobs involved in the physical receipt, storage, and issue of coal. Work includes directing the unloading of coal in the coal yard or in bins, verifying quantities of coal received, turning coal, directing the issuance and movement of coal to prescribed consuming locations, and coal sampling.

6904 Tools and Parts Attending*

This occupation includes jobs that involve receiving, storing, issuing, signing out, and checking in various tools, equipment, shop supplies, and repair parts to and from such using maintenance, construction, and shop personnel as machinists, carpenters, and automotive and aircraft mechanics. Such work requires knowledge of the kinds of tools, parts, and equipment in stock and how to locate them, and an ability to identify and issue specific items requested by using personnel.

6907 Materials Handling*

This occupation includes jobs involved in receiving, storing, assembling for issue or shipment, and shipping a variety of bin and bulk supplies, materials, and equipment. Performance of the work requires a knowledge of the methods used in processing material into and out of the supply system, including the methods used in tallying types and quantities of items against receiving and shipping documents; skill in palletizing, stacking, and otherwise placing and arranging items in storage locations in consideration of their size, shape, weight, quantity, type, stock number, letter and number codes, and other storage factors; and an understanding of procedures to be followed in removing from a storage and assembling for shipment or issue quantities, units of issue, and types of items shown in issue requests. Such jobs are located in freight terminals, mechanized and non-mechanized warehouses, open storage areas, and other similar operations.

6910 Materials Expediting*

This occupation includes jobs involved in routing and expediting the movement of parts, end items, supplies, and materials within production and repair facilities to meet priority needs. This work requires knowledge of material characteristics, uses, condition, industrial production shop procedures, shop layout, and internal supply sources.

6912 Materials Examining and Identifying*

This occupation includes jobs involved in identifying, condition classifying, categorizing, and processing materials and equipment. The work involves examining materials to establish or insure their identity and observable physical condition, and processing them according to established procedures.

6913 Hazardous Waste Disposing*

This occupation includes jobs involved in identifying, collecting, processing, stabilizing, neutralizing, consolidating, and/or separating hazardous waste in preparation for disposal. The work requires knowledge of hazardous waste identification techniques and safe processing and packaging procedures and an understanding and practical application of environmental rules and practices regarding the full range of hazardous waste material treatment and disposal procedures. Work within this occupation typically requires basic skill in the use of computers to access information systems to retrieve data pertaining to temporary storage, and processing information regarding hazardous wastes. Most work requires regular or incidental use of motor vehicles, fork lifts, and in some cases, warehouse tugs. In some work situations, hazardous waste disposers at industrial facilities may be required to participate on hazardous waste response teams to control accidental spills, overflows, and other emergency situations that may arise involving both hazardous wastes and materials.

6914 Store Working*

This occupation includes jobs involved in handling, marking, and preparing displays of merchandise or other items for selection by customers. This requires skill in observing, counting, and maintaining stock levels, and in matching names, codes, numbers, or sizes of items on shelves or counters to lists on which these items are shown. Workers acquire and use a knowledge of the various kinds, sizes, and locations of stocked items and how they should be displayed. They also use knowledge of the general characteristics of items handled in recognizing obvious poor or unacceptable quality or in identifying items by type, kind, or variety for pricing.

6941 Bulk Money Handling

This occupation includes jobs involved in receiving, storing, maintaining custody of, and issuing bulk currency, securities, coin items (new domestic, foreign, and proof coins, and current and mutilated coins), and gold and silver bullion; controlling storage vaults; and preparing large orders of items for shipment.

6968 Aircraft Freight Loading

This occupation includes jobs involved in loading, placing, securing, and unloading air cargo in the air terminal and on the aircraft when such work includes responsibility for maintaining the proper weight and balance of the loaded aircraft, positioning cargo based on destination and priority of shipment, and insuring that incompatible cargoes are not loaded in the same aircraft.