Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters

Key skills

A typical day

• •Examine blast areas to determine amounts and kinds of explosive charges needed and to ensure that safety laws are observed.
• •Tie specified lengths of delaying fuses into patterns in order to time sequences of explosions.
• •Place safety cones around blast areas to alert other workers of danger zones, and signal workers as necessary to ensure that they clear blast sites prior to explosions.
• •Place explosive charges in holes or other spots; then detonate explosives to demolish structures or to loosen, remove, or displace earth, rock, or other materials.
• •Insert, pack, and pour explosives, such as dynamite, ammonium nitrate, black powder, or slurries into blast holes; then shovel drill cuttings, admit water into boreholes, and tamp material to compact charges.

Fields of study

Any field