How to become a Mining Safety Engineer

Mining safety engineers are the one who practices and apply their knowledge of mine design to inspect the walls and roofs of mines, monitor the air quality, and examine mining equipment for possible hazards to ensure worker’s safety and maintain compliance safety regulations. A mining safety engineer investigates and inspects sites and facilities to ensure specifications or standards are met for the safety of a work environment also they look after safety of equipment, economical, and environmentally sound extraction, underground construction work. Mining Safety engineer implement, create, coordinate mine safety courses. Mining safety engineer is a professional job related to industrial and systems engineering. Mining Safety Engineer is a person who is responsible for making the work site safe for all employees in the company and maintain national health and safety standards.

The roles and responsibilites of mining safety engineer:

• To assess the  feasibility and the potential for commercial benefit of new sites
• To check extraction risks
• To produce plans or models for possible mining sites
• To implement and plan extraction systems
• To evaluate and monitoring underground performance
   

To become a Mining Safety Engineer, the aspirants must need to develop certain skills ability to have a good knowledge of the components used in any design, component reliability, able to address any safety risks that arise, must be familiar with all the relevant health and safety regulations, must have an excellent understanding of system, process safety and health program management, must have a good knowledge of Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering Design and Mechanics and Industrial Processes, a good understanding of psychology in order to assess and anticipate the human factor in potential health and safety issues related to the product or process design.

The salary depends upon the experience, skills, and qualifications of the candidate. A fresher can get around Rs. 25,000 to Rs. 30,000 per month.

To enroll into a Bachelor's Program in Mining Safety Engineer, it is essential for the aspiring candidate to clear entrance exams conducted by various educational institutes. Most widely conducted entrance exams are IITJEE Main/AIEEE/BITSAT/JEE Advanced/AMIE/CET/National level/State level/ VITEEE/ AP & TS EAMCET.

• Consultancy Firm
• Department of Science & Technology
• Research & Technology
• Private Sector
• Mining Industry