Type of physical demands usually associated with the essential functions of this classification: • Reaching: extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction • Handling: seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or otherwise working with hands • Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word • Hearing: perceiving the nature of sounds • Feeling: perceiving attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature or texture • Tasting/Smelling: Distinguishing, with a degree of accuracy, differences or similarities in intensity or quality of flavors and/or odors, or recognizing particular flavors and/or odors, using tongue and/or nose • Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, ramps, embankments, and the like using feet and legs and/or hands and arms • Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching, or running on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces • Stooping: Bending body downward or forward by bending spine at the waist • Kneeling: Bending legs at knees to come to a rest on knee(s) • Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg(s) and spine • Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet • Seeing: The ability to perceive the nature of objects by the eye. The important aspects of vision are: • acuity-far: clarity of vision at 20 feet or more • acuity-near: clarity of vision at 20 inches or less • depth perception: ability to judge distance and space relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are • field of vision- observing an area that can be seen up and in a given pointe • accommodation- adjustment of the lens of the eyes to bring an object into a sharp focus, especially important when doing near-point work at varying distances from the eyef • color vision- ability to identify and distinguish colors.