Usually means: Substitute worker in hazardous environments.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word ganger:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. ganger: Merriam-Webster
  2. ganger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ganger: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ganger: Vocabulary.com
  5. Ganger, ganger: Wordnik
  6. Ganger, ganger: Wiktionary
  7. ganger: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. ganger: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Ganger, ganger: Dictionary.com
  10. Ganger (band), Ganger: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Ganger: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. ganger: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. ganger: Rhymezone
  14. Ganger: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. ganger: Robb: German English
  16. ganger: FreeDictionary.org
  17. ganger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. ganger: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GANGER, GANGER, GANGER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ganger: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gangers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Ganger)

noun:  (chiefly Scotland) One who or that which walks or goes; a goer; a walker.
noun:  A horse that goes quickly.
noun:  (business, rail transport) One who oversees a gang of workmen.
noun:  (coal mining) One who is employed in conveying the coal through the gangways.
noun:  (nautical) A length of chain, one end of which is fastened to an anchor when let go, when the other end is fastened to a hawser.
noun:  A surname.

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