Occupation Atlasagricultural inspector
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/715b902f-b1b6-4366-afc6-ddb8ab715229
agricultural inspector
Agricultural inspectors monitor agricultural operations in farms and other agricultural facilities. They inspect activities such as health and safety measures, costs and production processes to ensure that workers and their activities comply with proper legislation and standards. Agricultural inspectors also analyse and report on their findings.
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Job Zone
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 2: Some Preparation Needed
Some preparation. Usually a high school diploma, some previous work-related skill or experience, and a few months to a year of training with experienced workers.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
RCIRealistic · Conventional · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic5.35
- C Conventional5.17
- I Investigative4.04
- E Enterprising3.12
- S Social1.89
- A Artistic1.00
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Agricultural Inspectors (45-2011.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (18)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- agronomical production principles
- analyse business processes
- collect samples for analysis
- communicate health and safety measures
- conduct environmental surveys
- enforce sanitation procedures
- ensure compliance with legal requirements
- environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry
- follow up complaint reports
- health, safety and hygiene legislation
- identify hazards in the workplace
- incidents and accidents recording
- monitor work site
- perform inspection analysis
- pollution prevention
- sustainable agricultural production principles
- undertake inspections
- write work-related reports
Optional (27)
- European pesticide legislation
- advise on soil and water protection
- agricultural chemicals
- agricultural equipment
- agricultural raw materials, seeds and animal feed products
- analyse environmental data
- animal welfare
- assess environmental impact
- budgetary principles
- check payrolls
- collect weather-related data
- conduct field work
- cost management
- develop agricultural production plans
- food safety principles
- gather data
- horticulture principles
- inspect animal welfare management
- inspect machinery
- keep task records
- manage farm supplies
- manage maintenance operations
- monitor crops
- perform food safety checks
- present evidence
- provide advice to farmers
- quality criteria for storage facilities
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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