PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work is typically performed while sitting at a desk or table. The employee must occasionally lift light objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required: 

• Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.

• Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.

• Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.

• Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.

• Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.

• Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.

• Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.

• Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.

• Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.

• Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.

• Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.

• Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.

• Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.

• Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.

• Standing – for sustained periods of time.

• Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.

• Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word

• Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.

• Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.

The work is typically performed in an office.