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486 Assistant Safety Engineer Petroleum Products

Appendix B lists SSN 486 as Assistant Safety Engineer Petroleum Products under AR 615-26 (September 1942 and supplements), and as Safety Inspector in the June 1945 manual. Its instruction, “See also 485,” is a cross-reference, not an established conversion to 485 or proof of cancellation or renaming.

Documented history

Assistant Safety Engineer Petroleum Products

June 1945 is the manual’s publication month, not an effective date for a transition. No calendar effective date is given for SSN 486.

  • Any proposed reassignment required review of the individual’s qualifications against the job specifications; 485 was not an automatic replacement.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: Assistant Safety Engineer Petroleum Products. Suggested conversions/remarks, as printed: See also 485. The Present Title column is the manual's June 1945 meaning: Safety Inspector. It is not a present-day MOS equivalence. This is a cross-reference or instruction to review the job specification, not an explicit fixed replacement or proof of cancellation. The table gives no row-level calendar effective date. June 1945 is the manual publication date, not an inferred individual conversion date.

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Reviewed September 24, 2026 against references 3 and 4.

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