Worker, salt production area

Mining and quarrying labourers perform routine tasks in mines and quarries.

• assisting in the maintenance of machines, equipment and installations in mines and quarries;
• assembling and dismantling mining equipment;
• removing tunnel supports from abandoned sections of mines and quarries;
• removing hazards in mines and quarries;
• moving extracted materials and equipment from the work face after extraction is completed, removing waste and clearing rocks;
• cleaning machines, equipment, tools and transport facilities;
• sorting, loading, unloading, stacking and storing tools, materials and equipment used by other mine and quarry workers.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Worker, mines
• Worker-digger, quarries
• Worker, haulage and delivery
• Worker, auxiliary equipment (mining and mineral processing)