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Full Blasting Licence Syllabus

This document outlines the syllabus for a full blasting licence. It covers five sections: [1] ventilation gases and their properties, combustion engines underground, and compressed air use; [2] re-entry procedures and rescue; [3] blasting practices including different explosives, storage, conveyance, use, and types of blasting; [4] shaft sinking, hoisting, safety devices, stages, and winders; [5] reportable accidents, casualties, and non-casualties. The syllabus provides essential information on topics required to obtain a full blasting licence.

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Full Blasting Licence Syllabus

This document outlines the syllabus for a full blasting licence. It covers five sections: [1] ventilation gases and their properties, combustion engines underground, and compressed air use; [2] re-entry procedures and rescue; [3] blasting practices including different explosives, storage, conveyance, use, and types of blasting; [4] shaft sinking, hoisting, safety devices, stages, and winders; [5] reportable accidents, casualties, and non-casualties. The syllabus provides essential information on topics required to obtain a full blasting licence.

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FULL BLASTING LICENCE SYLLABUS

Section One: Ventilation Gasses (a)Sources, permissible quantities, specific gravities and chemical composition of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrus fumes, methane, hydrogen, hydrogen sulphide, chlorine, aldehydes, ammonia, propane, Freon, hydrogen cyanide (b)Properties(physical and chemical ),detection,testing,physiological and other effects in persons, methods of getting rid of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide,nitrus fumes, hydrogen sulphide and methane. (c) Internal combustion engines. The use of ICEs underground, sampling scrubber box, catalytic converters, diesel handling underground. (d) Use of compressed air in underground ventilation. Waterblast, Auxiliary, percussive drilling machines. Section two: Re-entries (a)Development and re-entry on blasted raises winzes and flat ends. (b)Rescue procedures Explosives (a)Types of explosives high and low explosives, ANFO. (b)Storage: Immovable magazine, Portable magazine. (c)Conveyance: Vehicles, Build up areas, containers (d)Use: Old explosive box, destruction. (e)Open pit blasting. (f)Nonel blasting Section three: Blasting practice. (a)Fuse blasting, Incidiary cords types and burning speeds, inter-connector, sequential firing, verocity of detonation and burning front. (b)Electric blasting, series, parallel, series parallel connections, continuity testing (c)Testing an electric misfired end using an Ohmeter. (d)Drilling, charging and blasting procedures in development of flat ends, raises, winzes and shaft. (e)Post split, pre-split and smooth wall blasting. (f)Secondary blasting (g)Blasting in built-up areas and quarries. (h)Holing procedure for: (a) 2 ends approaching each other (b)Inaccessible dangerous areas. Section four-Shift s Vertical and Incline shaft sinking Hoisting and all Hoist safety devices Galloway stage and pent house Types of winders Section five-Accidents Reportable accidents Casualty and non casualty

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