Clean and help maintain equipment or work areas and sterilize glassware, according to prescribed methods.

“Clean and help maintain equipment or work areas and sterilize glassware, according to prescribed methods.” is a core task performed by Pharmacy Technicians. Among the occupation's 21 rated tasks, workers place it 5th by importance (#17 most important). About 85% 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.

• Clean medical equipment or facilities. in Performing General Physical Activities
• Maintain medical equipment or instruments. in Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

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 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Receive written prescription or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate. · importance 4.9
• Enter prescription information into computer databases. · importance 4.8
• Establish or maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients. · importance 4.7
• Compute charges for medication or equipment dispensed to hospital patients and enter data in computer. · importance 4.7
• Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs. · importance 4.7
• Prepare and process medical insurance claim forms and records. · importance 4.7
• Receive and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices, check for outdated medications in current inventory, and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages. · importance 4.6
• Answer telephones, responding to questions or requests. · importance 4.6
• Assist customers by answering simple questions, locating items, or referring them to the pharmacist for medication information. · importance 4.5
• Operate cash registers to accept payment from customers. · importance 4.5
• Transfer medication from vials to the appropriate number of sterile, disposable syringes, using aseptic techniques. · importance 4.5
• Restock intravenous (IV) supplies and add measured drugs or nutrients to IV solutions under sterile conditions to prepare IV packs for various uses, such as chemotherapy medication. · importance 4.4
• Price and file prescriptions that have been filled. · importance 4.4
• Mix pharmaceutical preparations, according to written prescriptions. · importance 4.4

See all tasks on the Pharmacy Technicians 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.

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  title  = {Clean and help maintain equipment or work areas and sterilize glassware, according to prescribed methods.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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