A professional who tests hardness of medicinal tablets to ensure conformity with production specifications, using balance scale and hardness tester. Respnsibilities include:

• Places sample tablet on scale pan, using tweezers, and records weight.
• Places tablet in hardness tester, turns screw to raise tablet until it touches pressure rod, and depresses pneumatic foot pedal to squeeze tablet until breakage occurs.
• Examines and fingers tablets to detect chips and tackiness.
• Notifies compressor when tablets do not meet weight or hardness specifications.
• May test tablets, using hand-operated hardness tester.
• May weigh entire batch of tablets to compare with total weight of ingredients used.