Shotfirers and blasters
In the ILO's assessment few of the job's tasks can be done by generative AI, or the scores are too spread out to reach gradient 1 — generative AI does not meaningfully take over the core of the work.
Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.
0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.
Work out your own score ↓What can you do?
The AI analysis for this occupation is still being prepared — the background process covers a few occupations every day.
Task by task
The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).
- Compiling and maintaining records about usage of explosives in compliance with laws and regulations.24
- Planning and giving instructions for the layout, depth and diameter of blast holes14
- Checking depth and cleanliness of blast holes14
- Connecting wires, fuses and detonator cords into series, testing electrical circuits and repairing malfunctions, and connecting series to blasting machines13
- Determining quantity and type of explosives to be used12
- Ensuring all explosives are detonated, and reporting and attending to misfires11
- Loading explosives into blast holes11
- Declaring blast areas safe before and after detonation of explosives10
- Assembling, or directing other workers to assemble, primer charges using detonators and explosive cartridges, and attaching electrical wires, fuses and detonating cords to primers10
- Covering charges, filling blast holes with rock dust, sand and other materials, and tamping material to compact charges8
- Ensuring workplace safety and explosives handling, storage and transport procedures and regulations are followed5
How much does it affect you?
Every job is different: mark which of these tasks you do and how much, and we'll compute your own, time-weighted score.
For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Compiling and maintaining records about usage of explosives in compliance with laws and regulations.(24)
- Planning and giving instructions for the layout, depth and diameter of blast holes(14)
- Checking depth and cleanliness of blast holes(14)
- Connecting wires, fuses and detonator cords into series, testing electrical circuits and repairing malfunctions, and connecting series to blasting machines(13)
- Determining quantity and type of explosives to be used(12)
- Ensuring all explosives are detonated, and reporting and attending to misfires(11)
- Loading explosives into blast holes(11)
- Declaring blast areas safe before and after detonation of explosives(10)
- Assembling, or directing other workers to assemble, primer charges using detonators and explosive cartridges, and attaching electrical wires, fuses and detonating cords to primers(10)
- Covering charges, filling blast holes with rock dust, sand and other materials, and tamping material to compact charges(8)
- Ensuring workplace safety and explosives handling, storage and transport procedures and regulations are followed(5)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 12.)
About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Compiling and maintaining records about usage of explosives in compliance with laws and regulations.
- • Planning and giving instructions for the layout, depth and diameter of blast holes
- • Ensuring workplace safety and explosives handling, storage and transport procedures and regulations are followed
- • Covering charges, filling blast holes with rock dust, sand and other materials, and tamping material to compact charges
An estimate from the ILO task scores. Everything is computed in your browser — nothing is sent or stored.
How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and related trades workers group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and related trades workers |
|---|---|
| Romania | 3.2% · 250 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 2.9% · 150 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 2.8% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 2.8% · 488 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 2.8% · 41 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 2.7% · 80 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 2.6% · 69 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 2.5% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 2.5% · 590 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 2.3% · 109 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 2.1% · 112 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 1.9% · 82 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 1.8% · 13 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 1.7% · 30 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 1.7% · 48 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 1.7% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 1.6% · 458 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 1.5% · 343 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 1.5% · 636 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 1.5% · 66 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 1.2% · 60 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 1.2% · 3 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 1.1% · 54 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 1.0% · 5 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 0.8% · 78 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 0.8% · 21 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 0.6% · 211 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 0.5% · 16 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 0.5% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 0.4% · 12 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Craft and related trades workers). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland4,098
- Iceland3,826
- Denmark3,666
- Norway3,260
- Belgium2,979
- Germany2,859
- Luxembourg2,760
- Sweden2,733
- Netherlands2,717
- Austria2,715
- Finland2,711
- EU272,364
- Italy2,314
- Ireland2,200
- Spain2,124
- France2,122
- Malta2,032
- Slovenia2,012
- Lithuania2,008
- Greece1,799
- Estonia1,795
- Poland1,787
- Czechia1,781
- Cyprus1,751
- Romania1,734
- Hungary1,684
- Latvia1,680
- Slovakia1,672
- Croatia1,505
- Portugal1,285
- Bulgaria1,217
Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.
Outlook to 2035
Employment in the Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and related trades workers group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection
Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.
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Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?