Worksheet for Task Statements Who? Performs what action? To whom or what? “in order to” Using what tools, equipment, and methods? How is the work initiated? Subject Action Verb Object of Verb Output or Product How Work is Done Instructions/Directions The worker Task Statement
Innovates – To exercise creativity in introducing something new or in making changes. Inquires – To request information; to investigate. Inspects – To examine carefully and critically; to examine or determine. Installs – To place in office; to establish in an indicated place, condition, or status; to set up for use in service. Institutes – To establish in a position or office; to originate. Instructs – To teach; to direct on the basis of law or technology. Interests – To excite or hold one’s curiosity or attention; to engage or attract the attention of someone. Interprets – To give the meaning of; to explain to others. Interrogates – To examine by formal questioning. Interviews – To elicit information through questioning, usually on a conversational basis. Invents – To think up or image; to create. Inventories – To catalog or to count and list. Investigates – To observe or study by close examination and systematic inquiry. Issues – To put forth or to distribute officially. Itemizes – To enumerate one after another; to set or note down in detail. Joins – To put or bring together. Judges – To hear and determine or decide in the case of (as a person) in or as if in a court of justice; to make decisions or pass upon the merits of something.
Markets – To expose for sale; to sell. Matches – To pair up or put in a set as possessing equal or harmonizing attributes. Measures – To ascertain the quantity, mass, extent, or degree of in terms of a standard unit or fixed amount, usually by means of an instrument or container market off in the units. Mediates – To attempt to bring extremes together or to function as a form of communication between them. Meets – To come into contact with others for the purpose of informing or discussing. Mends – To repair; to restore to soundness that which is broken or torn. Mentors – To deal with individuals in terms of their overall life adjustment behavior in order to advise, counsel, and/or guide them with regard to problems that may be resolved by legal, scientific, clinical, spiritual, and/or other professional principles. Advises clients on implications of diagnostic or similar categories, courses of action open to deal with a problem, and merits of one strategy over another. Mixes – To combine or blend particles, parts or elements into one. Modifies – To make less extreme; to limit or restrict the meaning of; to make minor changes in. Monitors – To watch, observe, or check for a specific purpose. Motivates – To consciously attempt to stimulate the active interest or desire for something. Moves – To go from one point to another; to shift; to maneuver. Names – To nominate; to speak about; to identify. Negates – To deny the existence or truth of; to cause to be ineffective or invalid; to eliminate.
Regulates – Means to order or control by rule, method, or established mode. Reinforces – To strengthen with additional forces or additions. Rejects – To refuse to have, use, or take for some purpose; to refuse to hear, receive, or admit. Relays – To transmit information from one person to the person for whom the information was intended. Releases – To set free; to permit the publication or dissemination of. Remits – To send money in payment of; to submit or refer for consideration, judgment, decision, or action. Removes – To change the location, station or residence of; to dismiss from office. Renders – To furnish an opinion; to answer. Repairs – To put into good or fitting order something that is injured. Replaces – To provide a substitute for something now lost, gone, or worn out. Reports – To give an account of; to furnish information or data. Represents – To act in the place of or for. Reprimands – To advise or warn so that a fault may be rectified. Requests – To ask for something to be done or given. Requires – To demand, insist upon; to order. Rescinds – To make void; to repeal; to abrogate a contract by restoring preexisting conditions.
Searches – To make a thorough examination in order to find something concealed. Secures – To guard from danger or risk of loss; to guarantee. Segregates – To separate or set apart from others or from the general mass. Selects – To choose the best suited. Sells – To give up to another for money or other valuable consideration. Sends – To dispatch by a means of communication; to convey. Serves – To assist; to be of use; to hold office; to attend to the needs or requests of people or animals. Services – To make fit for use by providing maintenance, supplies, repairs, or installations. Set-up – To install machines or equipment; to insert tools; to alter jibs, fixtures, and attachments; to repair machines or equipment to ready and/or restore them to their proper functioning according to job order or blueprint specifications. (Involves primary responsibility for accuracy.) Settles – To reach a definite or final choice after a period of indecision or dispute. Signs – To formally approve a document by affixing a signature. Simplifies – To clarify; to reduce to basic essentials; to make less complicated. Solicits – To approach with a request or plea; to strongly urge. Solves – To find a solution for. Sorts – To suggest the selection of items according to type. (This process is closely related to the categorizing process indication by “classifies”.)
Occasional – (1-33%) 10 lbs 20 lbs 35 lbs 50 lbs 75 lbs 100 lbs Over 100 Frequent – (34-66%) Negligible 10 lbs 15 lbs 20 lbs 35 lbs 50 lbs Over 50 Constant – (67-100%) Negligible Negligible 7 lbs 10 lbs 15 lbs 20 lbs Over 20 ACTIVITY NEVER 0 hours OCCASIONALLY Up to 3 hours FREQUENTLY 3-6 hours CONSTANT 6-8 hours + SITTING WALKING STANDING BENDING (NECK) BENDING (WAIST) SQUATTING CLIMBING KNEELING CRAWLING TWISITING (NECK) TWISTING (WAIST) HAND/UPPER EXTREMITY USE ACTIVITY NEVER 0 hours OCCASIONALLY Up to 3 hours FREQUENTLY 3-6 hours CONSTANT 6-8 hours + SIMPLE GRASPING POWER