Work, Jobs, and Occupations A Critical Review of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (1980) / Chapter Skim
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B SITE VISITS TO SELECTED FEDERAL USERS OF THE DICTIONARY OF OCCUPATIONAL TITLES
B SITE VISITS TO SELECTED FEDERAL USERS OF THE DICTIONARY OF OCCUPATIONAL TITLES
Pages 250-261
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. The staff of the national office of BAT oversees the registration of apprenticeship programs, a procedure that involves an evaluation of whether the occupation to be apprenticed meets the criteria of eligibility (apprenticeability)
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Responding to proposals for apprenticeship programs initiated at the local level, the Division of Review and Registration determines whether the occupation to be-apprenticed meets BAT criteria and the program meets BAT standards; if so, DRR registers the program with BAT. Although registration of apprenticeship programs with BAT iS not required, there are advantages to both employers and employees of such registration.
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The BAT staff with whom I spoke use the following equivalence between the required term of the apprenticeship program and the svP estimates in order to verify the length of training time estimated by program sponsors: Term svP Code (and Definitions) 1 year 2 years 3 - years 4 years not applicable 5 (6 months to 1 year)
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Other than the DOT, BAT uses two other specially prepared reports of the occupational analysis program. One is the interim report mentioned above, and the other is a frequently used three-volume computer printout that provides a conversion from third edition to fourth edition DOT codes; the printout also lists deletions made between the two editions.
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At the time of the site visit, SSA personnel were not employing the fourth edition DOT, since the relevant supplement, Selected Characteristics of Occupations (Physical Demands, Working Conditions, Training Tim esJ, for which the Social Security Administration contributed $50,000, was not yet published. (A similar
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The DOT iS used primarily for making an assessment of the kind of employment the claimant can perform, given the disability incurred and his or her past employment. The underlying principle employed in the evaluation process is that if the physical, mental, and skill levels of the disabled individual match the physical, mental, and skill demands of his or her previous employment, disability benefits are not allowed.
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This volume contains information on worker trait groups, industry, physical demands, working conditions, and the GED and svP training time specifications, all of which are employed to develop a vocational profile of the claimant. In order to ensure that recommended jobs are not at a higher skill and function level than previous employment, the analyst uses the worker function specifications of DATA, PEOPLE, and THINGS.
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The working conditions defined by the DOT include whether the job is typically performed indoors, outdoors, or both and whether it involves extremes of heat or cold, wetness, humidity, noise, vibration, hazards, fumes, odors, toxic conditions, dust, or poor ventilation. These characteristics of recommended jobs can be compared with the job profiles developed for the claimant's previous employment in order to find matches at lower levels of exertion that the individual can potentially perform, given his or her disabilities.
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4. Chapter 31, the Disabled or Vocational Rehabilitation Program, provides rehabilitative counseling and vocational training and makes recommendations for the payment of benefits to service-disabled veterans.
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In this context the VRS also uses the six-digit DOT code identified previously to define the agreed-on occupational objective. In the role of rehabilitative specialist the VRS uses the DOT job definitions to determine whether the client can perform the various tasks involved in such employment.
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The DOT code itself is basic to maintaining statistical records on occupational objectives of veterans. The job definitions, with their detailed description of the constituent tasks involved in particular occupations, assist the counselors in developing educational and occupational objectives with their clients.
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Finally, the staff expressed a desire for more training on the use of the worker function data of the DOT, since many of them were uncomfortable with the actual use of the DATA, PEOPLE, and THINGS codes. They felt that they understood the concept but lacked any real ability to apply that knowledge to vocational planning in other than a very primitive way.
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