Blue-Collar workers (or frontline workers) are the employees or workers who perform manual labor work. Blue-collar jobs in most cases do not require any formal education. Manual work does not mean that the work does not require skills and qualification. We can find many manual jobs which might not need a college diploma, but most of them demand skilled employees with special training.
Unqualified workers
- Some blue collar job do not require equipped workplace and qualification
Qualified and skilled blue-collar workers
- A lot of blue-collar jobs require highly specialized skillset or qualification
- Highly skilled workers working with tools, equipment (e.g.crane operator, welding specialist)
- Someone to be skilled in performing a specific task
- Many manual jobs require various work equipment, tools or devices
- Work with such tools, appliances and devices require high qualification and skillset
- Qualification is required also for health and safety reasons (OHSA)
Examples of blue-collar, frontline workers industries
- factories, production line, manufacturing
- maintenance
- construction sites
- power operations, electricity generation, power plants
- mining
- food processing
- oil filed work
- recycling
- agriculture, maintenance