Maintain clean work areas.

Maintain clean work areas. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 6 occupations and seen in 6 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Clean tools, equipment, facilities, or work areas. in Performing General Physical Activities .

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 6 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 0 (0%) 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.

• Clean and sanitize athletic training rooms. · Athletic Trainers · importance 4.4 · no direct exposure
• Maintain clean working environments, according to clean room standards. · Photonics Technicians · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Maintain work area according to cleanroom or other processing standards. · Nanotechnology Engineering Technologists and Technicians · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Clean classrooms. · Teaching Assistants, Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School, Except Special Education · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Decontaminate or test field equipment used to clean or test pollutants from soil, air, or water. · Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure
• Clean classrooms. · Teaching Assistants, Special Education · importance 3.3 · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Athletic Trainers
• Nanotechnology Engineering Technologists and Technicians
• Photonics Technicians
• Teaching Assistants, Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School, Except Special Education
• Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians
• Teaching Assistants, Special Education

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.

@misc{singulariki-maintain-clean-work-areas,
  title  = {Maintain clean work areas.},
  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/maintain-clean-work-areas}
}