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14.9 percent of civilian jobs exposed to hazardous contaminants in 2016
May 31, 2017
Among all civilian jobs, 14.9 percent were exposed to hazardous contaminants in 2016. Half of the jobs in construction and extraction occupations were exposed to hazardous contaminants, as were half of the jobs in life, physical, and social science occupations. Those were the highest shares among all occupational groups.
(1) Estimate not available from public data-retrieval tool. Estimate was derived by subtracting from 100 the percentage not exposed to hazardous contaminants.
Other occupations in which large shares of jobs were exposed to hazardous contaminants include installation, maintenance, and repair (44.1 percent); building and grounds cleaning and maintenance (35.0 percent); protective service (33.0 percent); healthcare practitioners and technical (30.6 percent); and production occupations (28.7 percent).
Less than 2.0 percent of jobs were exposed to hazardous contaminants among legal, community and social service, business and financial operations, office and administrative support, computer and mathematical, and arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.
These data are from the Occupational Requirements Survey. To learn more, see "Occupational Requirements in the United States — 2016" (HTML) (PDF). Civilian jobs are wage and salary jobs in private industry or state and local government.
United States Department of Labor
