Handbook of Occupational Groups and Families		Classification Programs Division
Release Date:  August 2001		Section Fifty-eight of Sixty-six

    7300 - LAUNDRY, DRY CLEANING, AND PRESSING FAMILY   

This job family includes occupations involved in receiving, sorting, washing, drying, dry cleaning, dyeing, pressing, and preparing for delivery clothes, linens, and other articles requiring laundering, dry cleaning, or pressing.

Throughout the following information, an asterisk (*) stands for series with a published standard and a double asterisk (**) stands for series with a published flysheet.

Occupations in this family are:

7304 Laundry Working*

This occupation includes jobs involved in receiving, sorting, and marking soiled linen and apparel; processing flatwork and roughdry items; and assembling and issuing clean laundry. This includes classifying and marking; shaking out wet laundry; feeding into the flatwork ironer; catching, folding, and stacking ironed flatwork; folding roughdry laundry; sorting by identification number; and wrapping bundles.

7305 Laundry Machine Operating*

This occupation includes jobs involved in the operation of commercial-type laundry washers, extractors, tumblers, or conditioners. This includes loading, unloading, and operating controls of machines to wash, dye, starch, roughdry, or condition items for pressing.

7306 Pressing*

This occupation includes jobs involved in the shaping and pressing of laundered or dry cleaned garments and articles by operation of steam press machines and hand irons; also the shaping and pressing of seams and garments during and after tailoring.