Write test or inspection reports describing results, recommendations, or needed repairs.

“Write test or inspection reports describing results, recommendations, or needed repairs.” is a core task performed by Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers. Among the occupation's 32 rated tasks, workers place it 27th by importance (#6 most important). About 76% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Maintain operational records. in Documenting/Recording Information

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T3.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications. · importance 4.7
• Mark items with details, such as grade or acceptance-rejection status. · importance 4.6
• Measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers. · importance 4.5
• Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems. · importance 4.5
• Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications. · importance 4.5
• Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results. · importance 4.4
• Read dials or meters to verify that equipment is functioning at specified levels. · importance 4.3
• Make minor adjustments to equipment, such as turning setscrews to calibrate instruments to required tolerances. · importance 4.3
• Read blueprints, data, manuals, or other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures, adjustment methods, certification processes, formulas, or measuring instruments required. · importance 4.3
• Check arriving materials to ensure that they match purchase orders, submitting discrepancy reports as necessary. · importance 4.3
• Inspect or test raw materials, parts, or products to determine compliance with environmental standards. · importance 4.3
• Monitor production operations or equipment to ensure conformance to specifications, making necessary process or assembly adjustments. · importance 4.3
• Record inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded. · importance 4.3
• Analyze test data, making computations as necessary, to determine test results. · importance 4.2

See all tasks on the Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers page.

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-task-12485,
  title  = {Write test or inspection reports describing results, recommendations, or needed repairs.},
  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/tasks/task-12485}
}