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Hazardous Materials Removal Workers

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Tools Include:

  • Adjustable wrenches
  • Air samplers or collectors (Aerosol meters)
  • Air samplers or collectors (Air monitoring equipment)
  • Air pollutant samplers (Air pollutant monitors)
  • Air samplers or collectors (Air sampling devices)
  • Air sampling pumps
  • Air scrubbers
  • Radiation detectors (Alpha radiation meters)
  • Sample holders (Asbestos sample containers)
  • Radiation detectors (Beta radiation meters)
  • Blowers
  • Borescope inspection equipment (Borescopes)
  • Wheel bulldozers (Bulldozers)
  • Reagent kits for use with air samplers (Chemical agent detectors)
  • Protective aprons (Chemical protective aprons)
  • Hazardous material protective footwear (Chemical protective boots)
  • Hazardous material protective apparel (Chemical protective clothing)
  • Protective coveralls (Chemical protective coveralls)
  • Facial shields (Chemical protective face shields)
  • Protective gloves (Chemical protective gloves)
  • Safety hoods (Chemical protective head covers)
  • Hand sprayers (Chemical solution sprayers)
  • Hammers (Claw hammers)
  • Multi gas monitors (Color changing gas detection devices)
  • Gas detector tubes (Colorimetric detector tubes/badges)
  • Explosimeters (Combustible gas indicators)
  • Concrete mixers or plants (Concrete mixers)
  • Pry bars (Crowbars)
  • Absorbent booms (Curtain booms)
  • Portable data input terminals (Dataloggers)
  • Decontamination shower (Decontamination trailers)
  • Decontamination shower (Decontamination units)
  • Dehumidifiers
  • Desktop computers
  • Dosimeters
  • Dredgers (Dredges)
  • Dust collectors
  • Multi gas monitors (Electrochemical gas monitors)
  • Track excavators (Excavators)
  • Eyewashers or eye wash stations (Eyewash fountains)
  • Filtering machinery (Filter pumps)
  • Vacuum cleaners (Filtered vacuums)
  • Flame ionization analyzers (Flame ionization detectors FID)
  • Spectrophotometers (Flame spectroscopy detection instruments)
  • Liquid chromatographs (Fluorescence immunochromatography systems)
  • Forklifts
  • Radiation detectors (Gamma radiation meters)
  • Gas chromatographs (Gas chromatographs GC)
  • Gas detector tubes
  • Gas detectors (Gas leak detection devices)
  • Water samplers (Groundwater sampling equipment)
  • Power grinders (Handheld concrete and coating removal systems)
  • Vacuum cleaners (High-efficiency particulate air HEPA vacuums)
  • Hand sprayers (High-pressure water sprayers)
  • Fire retardant apparel (High-temperature protective clothing)
  • Hoists
  • Hydraulic truck cranes (Hydraulic booms)
  • Hygrometers
  • Infrared spectrometers (Infrared IR spectrometers)
  • Ladders
  • Cargo trucks (Large trucks)
  • Chemistry test kits or supplies (Lead testing kits)
  • Hazardous material protective apparel (Level A encapsulated suits)
  • Hazardous material protective apparel (Level B encapsulated suits)
  • Light trucks or sport utility vehicles (Light trucks)
  • Liquid leak detectors (Liquid leak detection equipment)
  • Hazardous material protective apparel (Liquid splash protective clothing)
  • Pick or place robots (Mechanical arms)
  • Moisture meters
  • Respirators (Negative pressure respirators)
  • Radiation detectors (Neutron detectors)
  • Notebook computers
  • Nut drivers
  • Absorbent booms (Oleophilic booms)
  • Single gas monitors (Oxygen concentration instruments)
  • Air samplers or collectors (Personal air monitors)
  • Personal computers
  • Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers (Personal digital assistants PDA)
  • Hazardous material protective apparel (Personal protective suits)
  • pH meters (pH indicators)
  • pH meters
  • Ion analyzers (Photoionization detectors PID)
  • Pneumatic sanding machines (Pneumatic scabbling tools)
  • Pneumatic sanding machines (Pneumatic scaling tools)
  • Reagent kits for use with air samplers (Portable chemical agent detection devices)
  • Positive displacement pumps (Positive displacement vacuum equipment)
  • Respiration air supplying self contained breathing apparatus or accessories (Positive pressure self contained breathing apparatus)
  • Power sanders
  • Putty knives
  • Radiation detectors (Radiation survey meters)
  • Radon detectors (Radon detection devices)
  • Pick or place robots (Remote control track robots)
  • Respirators
  • Dredgers (Robotic crawler dredges)
  • Safety glasses
  • Protective gloves (Safety gloves)
  • Pneumatic sanding machines (Sandblasters)
  • Scaffolding
  • Scrapers
  • Screwdrivers
  • Hazardous material protective apparel (Self-contained protective suits)
  • Shovels
  • Pneumatic sanding machines (Slurry blast equipment)
  • Soil core sampling apparatus (Soil samplers)
  • Soil testing kits (Soil vapor extraction units)
  • Pressure or steam cleaners (Steam cleaning equipment)
  • Pneumatic sanding machines (Steel shot recyclable blasting equipment)
  • Tablet computers
  • Radiation detectors (Thermoluminescent dosimeters)
  • Multi gas monitors (Total vapor survey instruments)
  • Conventional truck cranes (Truck cranes)
  • Two way radios
  • Utility knives
  • Vacuum pumps (Vacuum blast equipment)
  • Minivans or vans (Vans)
  • Hazardous material protective apparel (Vapor protective garments)
  • Air exhausters (Ventilation equipment)
  • Fans (Ventilation fans)
  • Water samplers
  • Water samplers (Water sampling pumps)
  • Winches
  • Wire cutters
  • Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (X ray fluorescence XRF lead testing analyzers)

Technologies Include:

  • Data base user interface and query software
  • Database software
  • Operation respond emergency information system OREISTM software
  • Internet browser software
  • Internet browser software
  • Presentation software
  • Presentation software
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Word processing software
  • Word processing software



The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet291)

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