Surveillance system monitor

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Surveillance System Monitor is an occupation frequently cited by Vocational Experts as available to disabled workers in disability hearings conducted by the Social Security Administration. [1] In the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, it carries a D.O.T. number of 379.367-010. [2] [3]

As last described in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles in 1986, the occupation is unskilled, performed at the sedentary level of exertion, and consists of monitoring closed circuit surveillance systems in governmental transportation facilities in order to detect crimes or disturbances. [4]

Now, very few, if any, employers ask employees to simply sit and watch a bank of monitors all day long. [5] Rather, in order to avoid excessive boredom, fatigue, and the resultant poor performance, employers ask surveillance system monitors to do a wider variety of security-related tasks through out the work day, thus rendering the exertional level required to do the occupation greater than sedentary. Further, the occupation is no longer unskilled work. [6] Particularly with regard to the security needed at government facilities in the post 9/11 world, experienced and trained workers are needed. [7] A majority of workers doing surveillance type security work are employed by the gambling and gaming industry. Effective monitoring in that industry requires training beyond what would be considered required for unskilled work. Numerous studies by Vocational Experts have found that, as described in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, the occupation of Surveillance System Monitor does not exist in significant numbers [8] in the nation's economy.