Perform safety checks on equipment before operating.

“Perform safety checks on equipment before operating.” is a core task performed by Roof Bolters, Mining. Among the occupation's 14 rated tasks, workers place it 11th by importance (#4 most important). About 100% 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.

• Inspect commercial, industrial, or production systems or equipment. in Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials

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: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Drill bolt holes into roofs at specified distances from ribs or adjacent bolts. · importance 4.9
• Pull down loose rock that cannot be supported. · importance 4.9
• Position bolting machines, and insert drill bits into chucks. · importance 4.9
• Perform tests to determine if methane gas is present. · importance 4.9
• Perform ventilation tasks, such as hanging ventilation curtains and tubes. · importance 4.9
• Force bolts into holes, using hydraulic mechanisms of self-propelled bolting machines. · importance 4.9
• Dust rocks after bolting. · importance 4.8
• Install various types of bolts, including truss, glue, and resin bolts, traversing entire ceiling spans. · importance 4.8
• Drill test holes and test bolts for specified tension, using torque wrenches. · importance 4.8
• Position safety jacks to support underground mine roofs until bolts can be installed. · importance 4.7
• Rotate chucks to turn bolts and open expansion heads against rock formations. · importance 4.7
• Remove drill bits from chucks after drilling holes, and insert bolts into chucks. · importance 4.6
• Tighten ends of anchored truss bolts, using turnbuckles. · importance 4.4

See all tasks on the Roof Bolters, Mining 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-21018,
  title  = {Perform safety checks on equipment before operating.},
  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-21018}
}