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Career Guidance Skills assisting and caring S3.3 - protecting and enforcing S3.3.1 - complying with health and safety procedures Safely detonate explosives
Description
Follow procedures in safely detonating explosives for mining purposes.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 1 occupations
- Total: 2 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Essential for
- ShotfirerShotfirers set up and safely detonate explosives at a site in order to blast and break up in situ material. Other titles The following job titles also refer to…
Optional for
- Explosives engineerExplosives engineers design drilling patterns and determine the amount of explosives required. They organise and supervise controlled blasts and report and investigate misfires. Th…
Related skills
- Explosives
- Legislation procedure
- Mine safety legislation
- Impact of geological factors on mining operations
- Report misfires
- Signal for explosion
- Electricity
- Report outcome of blast
- Examine prospective blast area
- Troubleshoot
- Examine area after blast
- Safety engineering
- Chemistry
- Check borehole depth
Last updated on February 19, 2026
