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Direct security or safety activities or operations

Work activity · O*NET

Direct security or safety activities or operations is an intermediate work activity in the O*NET database — a concrete task that recurs across many occupations , grouped under Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates. 20 occupations report doing it as part of their work.

What it involves

The most common detailed activities O*NET records under this category, ranked by how many occupation tasks map to each.

  • Direct fire fighting or prevention activities
  • Manage organizational security activities
  • Direct emergency management activities
  • Coordinate enforcement of laws or regulations
  • Direct security operations

How AI is applied to this activity

Microsoft's "Working with AI" study mapped real Bing Copilot conversations to O*NET work activities. The figures below are their measurements for this activity — they describe how AI is used today in one assistant's data, not a forecast that the activity will be automated.

AI completes it successfully 61.3% When Copilot attempts this activity, how often it finishes the task
Scope AI handles 11.3% How much of the activity AI carries within a conversation
Positive user feedback 51.3% Share of interactions users rated positively
How often AI is applied here 55th pct Percentile across all measured activities by how often AI performs them

Source: Microsoft "Working with AI" (working-with-ai). A high completion rate means AI can assist the activity in isolation — it does not mean an occupation that performs it is being automated, since every job blends many activities.

Detailed work activities

The more granular units of work O*NET groups under this activity, ordered by how many occupations perform them.

Occupations that perform this activity

Ranked by how many of the occupation's tasks map to this activity.

Occupation Tasks
First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers 7
Security Managers 6
Loss Prevention Managers 5
Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists 3
Environmental Compliance Inspectors 2
Fire Inspectors and Investigators 2
Occupational Health and Safety Technicians 2
Transit and Railroad Police 2
Air Traffic Controllers 1
Coroners 1
Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health 1
First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators 1
Gambling Managers 1
Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators 1
Government Property Inspectors and Investigators 1
Motorboat Operators 1
Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters 1
Retail Loss Prevention Specialists 1
Ship Engineers 1
Subway and Streetcar Operators 1
Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 19 occupations in occupations that perform Direct security or safety activities or operations.. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Motorboat Operators Ship Engineers First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers Transit and Railroad Police Retail Loss Prevention Specialists Fire Inspectors and Investigators Occupational Health and Safety Technicians Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters Security Managers Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health Air Traffic Controllers Gambling Managers AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that perform Direct security or safety activities or operations., by AI task-overlap and median pay

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Plain

Singulariki. "Direct security or safety activities or operations." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/activities/direct-security-or-safety-activities-or-operations

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Direct security or safety activities or operations. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/activities/direct-security-or-safety-activities-or-operations

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-direct-security-or-safety-activities-or-operations,
  title  = {Direct security or safety activities or operations},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/activities/direct-security-or-safety-activities-or-operations}
}

Citations name the underlying public dataset releases — they reflect what this page is built from, not just the URL.