Establish standards for products, processes, or procedures.

Establish standards for products, processes, or procedures. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 8 occupations and seen in 9 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Develop operational or technical procedures or standards. in Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 9 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 9 (100%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Develop food standards and production specifications, safety and sanitary regulations, and waste management and water supply specifications. · Food Scientists and Technologists · importance 4.1 · exposure with tools
• Write technical papers or reports or prepare standards and specifications for processes, facilities, products, or tests. · Chemists · importance 3.9 · direct LLM exposure
• Plan, administer and evaluate health safety standards and programs to improve public health, conferring with health department, industry personnel, physicians, and others. · Epidemiologists · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Develop economic guidelines and standards, and prepare points of view used in forecasting trends and formulating economic policy. · Economists · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Develop industrial standards and regulatory guidelines. · Commercial and Industrial Designers · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Confer with health departments, industry personnel, physicians, and others to develop health safety standards and public health improvement programs. · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Write or revise standard quality control operating procedures. · Quality Control Analysts · importance 3.6 · direct LLM exposure
• Develop manufacturing procedures and monitor the manufacture of their designs in a factory to improve operations and product quality. · Commercial and Industrial Designers · importance 3.4 · exposure with tools
• Develop operational standards and procedures for the work unit or department. · Administrative Services Managers · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Food Scientists and Technologists
• Chemists
• Epidemiologists
• Economists
• Commercial and Industrial Designers
• Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists
• Quality Control Analysts
• Administrative Services Managers

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.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

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  title  = {Establish standards for products, processes, or procedures.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/establish-standards-for-products-processes-or-procedures}
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