Cement production is based on limestone quarrying, which is mainly realized through the application of the drill and blast technique. Blasting is the most common and cheapest solution in open pit quarrying, but can cause adverse effects as vibrations, fly rocks, air overpressure and dust. In Italy, open pit excavation sites are frequently found near residential and industrial areas. For this reason, the environmental effects caused by the application of the drill and blast technique must be limited and controlled. Monitoring is based on scaled distance laws, which are expressed as the relationship between the charge per delay and the distance between the monitoring point and the blast area.