Michael Chileya

• Supervision: Protect the health and safety of all crew members.
• Safety Management: Inspect work faces and make dangerous areas safe.
• underground drilling, blasting operations, and workplace safety in an assigned production area.
• Drilling & Blasting: Manage all rock drilling and explosive handling activities.
• Compliance: Enforce Zambian mining and explosives regulations.

. Equipment Maintenance: Pre-check, clean, and report daily mechanical or electrical checklists for the charging machinery.

• Monitored equipment performance and reported malfunctions to supervisors.
• Operated machinery to ensure efficient production processes at N.F.C Africa.

. Explosives Preparation : loading of emulsion and gassing solution in respective tanks, preparation of detonators,boosters and dig shot and explosive inventory.

. Hole Preparation: Inspect drilled stope and development holes before loading explosives.

. Explosive Charging: Pump or place explosive materials (such as emulsion) and primers into blast holes using specialized mobile charging units.

. Quality & Safety Control: Follow strict Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) rules during the charging process to ensure safe and effective rock breakage.

. Initiation Systems: Connect electronic or non-electric initiation systems, detonators, and wiring (such as ranger systems) to set up safe blasts.

• Safety and Compliance: Enforces statutory mine health and safety regulations, conducts continuous risk assessments, and ensures proper personal protective equipment (PPE
• Face Inspection and Misfire Checks: Inspects the bottom of the shaft (the face) after blasting, checks for hazardous loose rock via scaling, and identifies or clears any misfires before crews begin work.
• Drilling and Blasting Oversight: Directs the positioning, charging, and firing rounds of explosives according to strict engineering and safety protocols.
• Signaling and Hoisting Control: Manages and authorizes the precise movement of sinking buckets, skips, or sinking scaffolds, giving distinct physical or electronic signals to the hoist operator.
• Mucking and Lining Coordination: Oversees the removal of debris (mucking) and the installation of temporary or permanent support structures, such as ring sets and concrete linings
• Shaft Examination: conducting shaft Examination after blasting.

• Performed routine maintenance of jackhammer equipment to ensure optimal performance.
• Monitored inventory levels of spare parts used in the repair process so that supplies were always available when needed.
• Inspected jackhammer par damage prior to use.
• Drill shaft bottom blast holes and support side wall
• Charge and blast shaft bottom