Vietnam: Skills required for graduates from college-level underground mining technology

Vietnam: Skills required for graduates from college-level underground mining technology (Illustrative Image)

Under Circular 50/2018/TT-BLDTBXH, graduates from college-level underground mining technology in Vietnam must acquire the following skills:

- Read drilling and support passports for preparation and extraction tunnels;

- Disassemble and install scraper, slide, rail, and pulling winch equipment in preparation and extraction tunnels;

- Operate and resolve issues with loading and transporting equipment in preparation and extraction tunnels;

- Erect various types of wooden supports, metal supports, single hydraulic props – chock systems, hydraulic shields, and extraction tunnel support frames;

- Operate and relocate different types of movable hydraulic shields, interconnected chain hydraulic shields, and extraction tunnel support frames;

- Organize and proficiently ensure safety checks at work positions as regulated;

- Organize and carry out complex reinforcement tasks in extraction tunnels such as adjusting hydraulic supports, replacing support pillars, reclaiming coal, and managing mine pressure;

- Skillfully organize and perform the main tasks in a preparatory tunnel excavation cycle or an extraction cycle;

- Drill holes in tunnel faces using handheld drills, drill stands, and drill vehicles;

- Proficiently use individual self-rescue equipment and mine safety and rescue equipment according to the appropriate procedures and handle emergency rescue situations;

- Organize and perform escape tasks and lead escape operations in the event of incidents, and prevent accidents in underground mining in Vietnam;

- Develop drilling and support passports and blast hole drilling passports;

- Organize, supervise, guide, and approve the activities of groups or teams executing tasks during a production shift;

- Train and improve the professional knowledge and skills for lower-level workers;

- Use basic information technology as regulated; exploit, process, and apply information technology in the professional work of the discipline and profession;

- Achieve basic foreign language proficiency, reaching level 2/6 in the Vietnamese Foreign Language Competency Framework; apply foreign language skills in the professional work of the discipline and profession.

More details may be found in Circular 50/2018/TT-BLDTBXH effective on February 10, 2019.

Ty Na

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