Blaster

OFO Code: 684202

Last checked 7 October 2026

PATHLENS

1. Occupation identity

OFO code: 684202
Occupation: Blaster
Classification: OFO 2021
Major group: SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
Unit group: 6842 · Shotfirers and Blasters

Official description
Shotfirers and blasters, position, assemble, and detonate explosives at mining, quarrying and demolition sites.

More official OFO detail

Assembling, or directing other workers to assemble, primer charges using detonators and explosive cartridges, and attaching electrical wires, fuses and detonating cords to primers
Loading explosives into blast holes
Covering charges, filling blast holes with rock dust, sand and other materials, and tamping material to compact charges
Planning and giving instructions for the lay out, depth and diameter of blast holes
Connecting wires, fuses and detonator cords into series, testing electrical circuits and repairing malfunctions, and connecting series to blasting machines
Checking depth and cleanliness of blast holes
Determining quantity and type of explosives to be used
Ensuring all explosives are detonated, and reporting and attending to misfires
Ensuring workplace safety and explosives handling, storage and transport procedures and regulations are followed
Declaring blast areas safe before and after detonation of explosives
Compiling and maintaining records about usage of explosives in compliance with laws and regulations

Demand evidence unavailable

No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.

PathLens does not fall back to legacy specimen demand flags when governed evidence is unavailable.

A national demand signal is not a promise of a vacancy in your town.

No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.

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Qualification evidence pending.

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National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.

No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.

DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact.
DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment.
Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone.
QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review.
Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim.
SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.