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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
Number of blossaries: 0
Company Profile:
A professional who attends to comfort and needs of thermal bath customers cooling off and resting after bath and massage. Respnsibilities include: * Assigns cot to customer. * Rubs customer's body with alcohol and oil to soothe skin. * Covers customer with sheet. * Times length of rest period. * Procures beverage, food, or other items on request. * May arrange for valet services. * May change bedding on cots. * May shine shoes. * May sweep and mop floors and dust furniture.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who serves patrons in dry-heat cabinet or room or steamroom of athletic, bathing, or other establishment. Respnsibilities include: * Spreads sheet or towel over seating facility in cabinet or rooms and seats patrons. * Supplies drinking water and renders other services requested, such as wrapping cool towels about patron's head, spraying body with water, or timing length of bath. * Gives shower baths and furnishes towel or dries patron. * Collects soiled linen and cleans bathing area and facilities, such as tubs and showers. * May turn valves and switches to adjust heating equipment, regulating amount of steam or temperature. * May pour water over heated rocks to prepare steamroom. * May be designated according to bath facility served as Dry-Heat-Cabinet Attendant; Dry-Heat-Room Attendant; Shower Attendant; Steam-Room Attendant.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements. Respnsibilities include: * Washes and dries body, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air drier. * Inserts convex celluloid or cotton between eyeball and eyelid to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelid. * Presses diaphragm to evacuate air from lungs. * May join lips, using needle and thread or wire. * Packs body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter. * Makes incision in arm or thigh, using scalpel, inserts pump tubes into artery, and starts pump that drains blood from circulatory system and replaces blood with embalming fluid. * Incises stomach and abdominal walls and probes internal organs, such as bladder and liver, using trocar to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs. * Attaches trocar to pump-tube, starts pump, and repeats probing to force embalming fluid into organs. * Closes incisions, using needle and suture. * Reshapes or reconstructs disfigured or maimed bodies, using materials, such as clay, cotton, plaster of paris, and wax. * Applies cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance. * Dresses body and places body in casket. * May arrange funeral details, such as type of casket or burial dress and place of interment. * May maintain records, such as itemized list of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in planning, selling, and instructing fitness plans for clients of health club. Respnsibilities include: * Assigns and adjusts work schedules to meet customer demand. * Interviews, hires, and trains new employees. * Observes workers in performance of duties and gives remedial training to correct worker deficiencies and ensure courteous service to patrons. * Plans and sells figure-controlling programs to prospective patrons. * Assists subordinates in interviewing, measuring, and evaluating patrons' physical condition to determine appropriate fitness program. * Prepares contract forms, obtains signatures, collects deposits, and issues membership cards to patrons accepting plans. * Demonstrates operation and explains purpose of equipment, such as treadmill exerciser and stationary bicycle, and instructs patrons in their use. * Monitors patron's exercise program to ensure adherence to specified techniques.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares embalmed bodies for interment. Respnsibilities include: * Manicures nails, using files and nail polish, and performs other grooming tasks, such as arching and plucking eyebrows and removing facial hair, using depilatory cream and tweezers. * Shampoos, waves, presses, curls, brushes, and combs hair, and applies cosmetics on face to restore natural appearance, following photograph of deceased, or verbal or written description obtained from family. * Dresses and arranges body in casket. * May select casket or burial dress, arrange floral displays, and prepare obituary notices. * May record personal effects delivered with body and information about deceased. * May wash and dry bodies, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air drier. * May reshape or reconstruct damaged or disfigured areas of body, using such materials as cotton or foam rubber.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes hair from skin of patron by electrolysis. Respnsibilities include: * Positions sterile bulbous or round-tipped needles into holders (electrodes) of galvanic or short wave electrical equipment. * Places secondary electrode in hand or immerses fingers or hand of patron in water-filled electrode cup to complete circuit and stabilize amount of electricity when equipment is operating. * Swabs skin area with antiseptic solution to sterilize it. * Inserts needle or needles into hair follicle and into organ beneath hair root (papilla). * Presses switch and adjusts timing and rheostat controls of equipment that regulate amount of electricity flowing through needle or needles to decompose cells of papilla. * Removes needle or needles, and pulls hair from follicle, using tweezers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who gives hair and scalp conditioning treatments for hygienic or remedial purposes. Respnsibilities include: * Massages, shampoos, and steams hair and scalp of patron to clean and remove excess oil, using liquid soap, rinses, and hot towels. * Applies medication to and massages scalp to increase blood circulation, stimulate glandular activity, and promote growth of hair, using hands and fingers or vibrating equipment. * Administers other remedial treatments to relieve such conditions as dandruff or itching scalp, using such therapeutic equipment as infrared or ultraviolet lamps. * Advises patrons with chronic or potentially contagious scalp conditions to seek medical treatment. * May maintain treatment records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who pricks skin of patron, using needled electric tool, that inserts indelible nontoxic pigment into skin to form decorative or ornamental design. Respnsibilities include: * Shaves area to receive tattoo and washes it, using germicidal soap. * Presses charcoal-coated stencil, draws design, or traces pattern of design onto skin of patron, to mark outline of design. * Dips needles of tool into colored pigment solution and presses needles into skin to insert indelible pigment into skin following outline of design. * Applies sterile dressing to area. * Sterilizes needles in steam-heated cabinet (sterilizer). * Mixes nontoxic colored pigments according to formula. * Adjusts and repairs needled electric tool, using handtools, such as screwdrivers and pliers. * May draw original designs on paper, trace designs onto acetate sheet, and cut out design to form pattern or stencil, using stylus and knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who dispenses supplies in beauty parlor or barber shop. Respnsibilities include: * Counts, sorts, issues, and collects articles, such as towels, drapes, combs, brushes, curlers, and nets. * Washes combs and brushes in antiseptic soap solution and places them in sterilizing cabinet. * Dilutes concentrated shampoo, rinses, and waving solutions with water according to instructions. * Dissolves cake soap in water to make shampoo. * Assembles materials, solutions, and equipment specified for individual treatment, such as facial, permanent wave, and manicure. * Maintains perpetual supply inventory and lists items needed to replace stock. * Sweeps floor and tidies rooms.
Industry:Professional careers