Regulations to know about industrial explosives activities in Vietnam

Decree No. 71/2018/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government provides a number of regulations relating to industrial explosives activities as follows:

Qualifications for industrial explosive operation

Decree No. 71/2018/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government stipulates a number of conditions that must be met when operating in the field of industrial explosives as follows:

- The manager shall have at least a bachelor’s degree in one of the following disciplines: chemistry, ammunition, chemistry of propellants, explosives, combat engineer, mining, geology, construction, transport, irrigation, geophysics or petroleum;

- The person who analyzes or tests industrial explosives shall have at least an intermediate degree in one of the following disciplines: chemistry, ammunition, chemistry of propellants, explosives, combat engineer, mining, geology, construction, transport, irrigation, geophysics or drilling and blasting;

- The lead blaster shall have at least an intermediate degree in one of the following disciplines:

+ Ammunition, chemistry of propellants, explosives, combat engineer, mining, geology, construction, transport, irrigation, geophysics, petroleum or drilling and blasting. The lead blaster shall have at least 01 year’s experience of using industrial explosives if he/she has a bachelor’s degree, or 02 years for an intermediate degree or college degree;

+ If the lead blaster has a degree in a discipline other than those specified above, he/she shall have at least 02 years’ experience of using industrial explosives if he/she has a bachelor’s degree, or 03 years for an intermediate degree or college degree.

- Blasters shall have at least a primary diploma in any of the disciplines above, or an intermediate degree in another discipline. Blasters shall have at least 06 months’ experience of explosive blasting.

Mandatory participants in industrial explosive safety training

According to Decree No. 71/2018/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, mandatory participants in industrial explosive safety training include:

- Managers

- Workers who directly manufacture industrial explosives.

- Managers of industrial explosive warehouses.

- Lead blasters.

- Blasters.

- Attendants, escorts, the operator of the vehicle carrying industrial explosives.

- Persons analyzing or testing industrial explosives.

Power to issue the certificate of industrial explosive safety training

- The authority that issued the certificate of production eligibility, the license to sell or use industrial explosives, the license to provide blast services is also entitled to issue the certificate of industrial explosive safety training (hereinafter referred to as “safety training certificate”) to the persons specified in Article 5 of this Decree if they are under its management, except for the persons that manufacture, sell, use or transport industrial explosives and provide blast services under management of the Ministry of National Defense.

- The authority assigned by the Ministry of National Defense to take charge of industrial explosive management shall preside over the organization of examinations for issuance of the safety training certificate to the entities that manufacture, sell, use or transport industrial explosives and provide blast services under management of the Ministry of National Defense.

Decree No. 71/2018/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government takes effect from July 01, 2018.

-Thao Uyen-

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