Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders

Description

Operate or tend cooking equipment, such as steam cooking vats, deep fry cookers, pressure cookers, kettles, and boilers, to prepare food products. Exclude "Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders" (51-3091).

Category

Food Processing

SOC Code

51-3093

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Add sulfites to food (potatoes, lobster, wine, apricots)
• Generate bioaerosols derived from milk, eggs, or animal serum
• Generate bioaerosols of Chinese red rice (food colorant derived from fungi)
• Generate plant bioaerosols processing or packing food products
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Handle limes, celery, parsnips, or figs
• Inhale aspergillus in bakery, beet sugar refinery, or biotechnology plant
• Prepare fruit salad using a solution of enzymes (pectinase and glucanase)
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols containing mold (asthmogenic)
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of soy sauce fermentation starter
• Work in microwave popcorn plant that uses diacetyl for flavoring