911.gov Presents Free Reclassification Webinar
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Tuesday, March 10th at 12PM ET
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Roles and responsibilities for public safety telecommunicators have evolved drastically over the years. As emergency communications centers transition from a legacy environment to Next Generation 9-1-1, those roles will continue to change. In the most recent Standard Occupational Classification (SOC), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) made the decision to not reclassify Public Safety Telecommunicators' role as Protective Service Occupations (as opposed to administrative/clerical occupations).
The SOC is a federal statistical survey which relies solely upon a prescribed process that collects specific data to classify more than 800 occupants. To enable the 9-1-1 community to work within the requirements of this system to reclassify Telecommunicators, it is important to understand the BLS SOC process and the objective data utilized.
This session will provide background information on the BLS SOC, and specifically on a template job description that could be used by local/state 9-1-1 agencies to provide the data necessary for BLS SOC reclassification using the BLS SOC process; and a call for action.
