Mine health and safety engineer

Also searched as: Ingeniero de minas especialista en salud y seguridad

Code 2146.7

What does a Mine health and safety engineer do?

Mine health and safety engineers develop and implement systems and procedures to prevent employee injury and sickness, improve mine working conditions, reduce health and safety risks and prevent damage to equipment and property.

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Essential skills

Knowledge

  • electricity
  • geology
  • mine safety legislation

Skills and competences

  • develop health and safety strategies in mining
  • prevent health and safety problems
  • train employees in mine safety
  • ensure compliance with safety legislation
  • manage emergency procedures
  • investigate mine accidents
  • maintain records of mining operations
  • prepare scientific reports
  • supervise staff

Transversal competences

  • address problems critically

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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences