1.
Climbing – Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
2.
X
Balancing – Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces.
3.
Stooping – Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
4.
Kneeling – Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
5.
Crouching – Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
6.
Crawling – Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
7.
X
Reaching – Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
8.
X
Standing – Particularly for sustained periods of time.
9.
X
Walking – Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances.
10.
Pushing – using upper extremities to press against something with steady force order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
11.
Pulling – Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
12.
Lifting – Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and required the substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
13.
X
Finger use – Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with the fingers rather than the whole hand or arm as in handling.
14.
X
Grasping – Applying pressure to an object with the fingers or palm.
15.
X
Talking - Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken word. Those activities in which you must convey detailed or spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly or quickly.
16.
X
Hearing – Perceiving the nature of sounds. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make fine discriminations in sounds such as when making fine adjustments on machinery.
17.
Repetitive Motions – Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.