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SSOC 2024 unit

Other Services & Public Administration Verified · 21 Mar 2024

83120

Railway braker and related worker

Railway braker and related worker assists in preparing train for run, safeguards train during trip and switches cars. He/she checks car mechanisms such as couplings, air-brake lines and hand brakes before train departure, examines signalling equipment such as lamps, flags, detonators and fuses, observes train operation to detect over-heated journal boxes, loose couplings or other defects.

SSOC hierarchy Crosswalks

Level

unit

Mapped ISCO

1

Source

SingStat

In this unit group: sibling units

unit-group 8312 Railway Brakers and Related Workers

Official data

Official nameSingapore Standard Industrial Classification (SSOC 2024)
Issuing authorityDepartment of Statistics Singapore (SingStat / DOS)
Tax authorityInland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) (IRAS)
PurposeClassifies occupations in Singapore for labour statistics, workforce planning, and international reporting.
Active versionSSOC 2024 (21 Mar 2024)
Hierarchy levelUnit (final leaf, 5-digit)
Sourcehttps://www.singstat.gov.sg/standards/standards-and-classifications/ssic
Prior versionsSSIC 2020, SSIC 2015

Definition & tasks

Railway braker and related worker assists in preparing train for run, safeguards train during trip and switches cars. He/she checks car mechanisms such as couplings, air-brake lines and hand brakes before train departure, examines signalling equipment such as lamps, flags, detonators and fuses, observes train operation to detect over-heated journal boxes, loose couplings or other defects.

Tasks

No tasks listed.

Examples

Under this unit

•Ÿ  Railway gateman •Ÿ  Railway signalman •Ÿ  Shunting engine driver •Ÿ  Train shunter

Elsewhere

•Ÿ  MRT train operator, see 83110

Hierarchy context

8→83→831→8312→83120 Railway braker and related worker

Major group

8 PLANT AND MACHINE OPERATORS AND ASSEMBLERS

Sub-major

83 DRIVERS AND MOBILE MACHINERY OPERATORS

Minor group

831 TRAIN OPERATORS AND RELATED WORKERS

Unit group

8312 Railway Brakers and Related Workers

Correspondence tables

SSOC 2020

  • No SSOC 2020 mapping found.

ISCO-08

  • 8312 — Railway brake, signal and switch operators

Alphabetical index entries

Principal Title 83120 Railway braker and related worker Alternative Title 83120 Railway brakeman Alternative Title 83120 Railway engine driver Alternative Title 83120 Railway gateman Alternative Title 83120 Railway shunter Alternative Title 83120 Railway signalman

Data source: Department of Statistics Singapore (SingStat / DOS) (https://www.singstat.gov.sg/standards/standards-and-classifications/ssic). Official SSOC 2024 workbooks.

Last refresh: 21 Mar 2024. Version: SSOC 2024.

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