Miners' Rights and Responsibilities
What is notify the operator, supervisor, or other responsible person?
Before starting work, new miners must receive this many hours of training.
What is 24 hours?
For customer and contract truck driver task training, MSHA will focus on these five areas and their related standards.
What is:
Control of Equipment: 56.9101
Use of Seat Belts: 56.141131
Chocking Wheels: 56.1402
Pre-operational Inspection: 56.14100(a)
Maintaining Brakes in Functional Condition: 5614101(a)(3)
This standard requires berms or guardrails along elevated roadways to prevent vehicles from going over the edge.
This is the minimum height of a berm.
What is 56.9300(a)?
What is "shall be at least mid-axle height of the largest self-propelled mobile equipment which usually travels the roadway?"
56.15002 requires hard hats to be worn whenever this could occur.
What is whenever falling objects could create a hazard?
Miners must provide this/these during investigations.
What are truthful statements or representations?
This person is designated by the production-operator, who has the ability, training, knowledge, or experience to provide training to miners in their area of expertise.
What is a competent person?
Citations issued under the enhanced enforcement program may qualify for this type of penalty.
What is a special assessment?
Instead of calculating the penalty using the regular point system (which scores factors like likelihood of injury, negligence, gravity, and operator size), MSHA assigns a case-specific monetary penalty, often significantly higher.
This standard requires guarding of belts, pulleys, and other moving parts to prevent contact injuries.
What is 56.14107 Moving machine parts
A PFD must be worn at this time.
What is whenever there is a danger from falling into water.
This prohibition under the Act forbids miners from identifying this detail before inspections.
What is advanced notice of an inspection?
If your job tasks change, you must receive this type of training.
What is new task training?
Under MSHA's enhanced enforcement program, the number of regular inspections at a sand/gravel pit per year will be.
What is two? Same as a regular year.
56.18002(a) Examination of working places requires this.
What is that a designated competent person examines each working place at least once per shift before work begins or as miners begin to work in that place, for conditions that may adversely affect safety or health.
These are the three things we are looking for when checking the victim during a medical emergency.
What are RESPONSIVENESS, BREATHING AND BLEEDING?
Miners have the responsibility to comply with these types of rules and regulations.
What are all Federal and State laws and regulations, and company safety and health policies?
You must provide this to any person who is not a miner but is present at the mine site. To include office/staff personnel, scientific workers, delivery workers, customers including OTR drivers, vendors or visitors.
What is site-specific hazard awareness training?
For managers and supervisors performing mining tasks MSHA's enhanced enforcement program will focus on what type of training.
What is 30 CFR 46.7 New task training?
Per 56.14132(a), when provided on self-propelled mobile equipment as a safety device feature these devices shall be maintained in a functional condition.
What are manually operated horns or other audible warning devices.
56.18010 states that a person capable of doing this shall be available on all shifts.
What is providing first aid, currently trained and have the skills to perform patient assessments and artificial respiration, control bleeding and treat shock, wounds, burns and musculoskeletal injuries. First aid training shall be made available to all interested miners.
This prohibition protects miners, representatives of miners, or applicants for employment if the exercise their rights as miner.
What is protection from discrimination?
Site specific hazard awareness training can be provided in the following manner.
What is written hazard warnings, oral instruction, signs and posted warnings, walkaround training, or other appropriate means that alert persons to site-specific hazards at the mine.
For assistance with compliance, mine operators can contact this MSHA resource.
What is the Educational Field and Small Mine Services (EFSMS).
This is how brake systems are checked per 56.1401(a)(1).
What is the self-propelled mobile equipment service brake system shall be capable of stopping and holding the equipment with its typical load on the maximum grade it travels?
56.15001 states that these should be provided at all working areas.
What are adequate first-aid materials, including stretchers and blankets.