Skills & competences

Description

Mining and quarrying labourers perform routine tasks in mining and quarrying operations.
Tasks include -
(a) assisting miners and quarriers in maintaining machinery, equipment, and mine and quarry installations;
(b) assembling and dismantling mining equipment;
(c) removing tunnel supports from disused workings in mines and quarries;
(d) removing dangerous projections from mine and quarry workings;
(e) removing waste and serviceable materials and equipment from work areas after extraction activities have been completed, and clearing rock and mineral spills;
(f) cleaning machinery, equipment, tools, roadways and haulage tracks;
(g) sorting, loading, unloading, stacking and storing tools, materials and supplies used by other mine workers.
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Mining labourer
- Quarry labourer
Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Driller (mining) - 8111
- Miner - 8111
- Mining plant operator - 8111
- Quarrier - 8111
- Driller (oil or gas well) - 8113
- Drilling plant operator - 8113