Blaster
New YorkActive
- Exam
- State exam
- Education
- None
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- Required
A blaster directs or personally handles, sets and detonates explosives in the construction excavation, demolition or mining. There are six specific categories of certificates of competence.
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Stand-alone license
- Exam
- State exam required
- Education
- No education required
- Continuing education
- Continuing education required
- Certification
- Certification required
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- Background check required
- Physical requirement
- Physical exam
Issuing body
- Department
- NYS Department of Labor
- Division
- Division of Safety and Health
- Board
- License and Certificate Unit, Bldg 12, Rm. 161
- Address
- Harriman State Office Campus, Building 12, Room 161 Albany, NY 12240
- Phone
- (518) 457-2735
- Agency website
- https://dol.ny.gov/
- Last updated
- February 23, 2023
Occupations (O*NET)
- Blaster 47-5032.00
Source and verification
This record is New York's report to the Analyst Resource Center, published by CareerOneStop (October 2024 export). Everything shown comes only from that report.
Before you apply, confirm every detail with License and Certificate Unit, Bldg 12, Rm. 161 — see the issuing body section above.
How we process this data. Not legal advice.