Mine Worker Safety Checklist

1. Are employees provided information and site-specific hazard awareness training before any employee is exposed to mine hazards?

2. Is appropriate site-specific hazard awareness training also provided to office and staff personnel, scientific workers, delivery workers, customers, construction contractors, etc.?

3. Are miners, such as drillers or blasters, who move from one mine to another mine while remaining employed by the same production-operator or independent contractor provided with site-specific hazard awareness training for each location?

4. Is training conducted by a competent person, designated by the production operator or independent contractor, who has the ability, training, knowledge, or experience to provide training to miners in his or her area of expertise?

5. Does the organization have a Training Plan approved by MSHA or an authority having jurisdiction?

6. Does the approved training plan contain the following items:

7. a. The name of your operation, and the mine ID number or independent contractor ID number (if the contractor has an ID number);

8. b. The name of the person and position of the person who is responsible for the health and safety training at the mine;

9. c. A general description of the teaching methods and course materials that will be used in each training program, including the subjects and the approximate time to be spent on each subject;

10. d. A list of the persons and/or organizations who will be providing the training and the subjects that they can teach; and

11. e. The evaluation procedures used to determine the effectiveness of training?

12. Do new miners receive a minimum of 4 hours of training in the following 7 subjects, before he or she begins work: Mine tour and intro to the work environment; hazard awareness training for known hazards at the location; a review of the emergency medical procedures, escape and emergency evacuation plans; . Instruction on the health and safety aspects of the tasks to be assigned, including the safe work procedures; Instruction on the statutory rights of miners and their representatives under the Act; review and description of the line of authority of supervisors and miners' representatives; and an introduction to site rules and procedures for reporting hazards?

13. Do new minors receive the following aditional training within 60 days: Instruction and demonstration on the use, care, and maintenance of selfrescue and respiratory devices, if used at the mine; and a review of first aid methods?

14. Do miners and employees receive annual refresher training?

15. Does the annual refresher training include the following: Instruction on changes at the mine that could adversely affect the miners’ health or safety and other health and safety subjects that are relevant to mining operations at the mine?

16. Is all training properly documented and records available for inspection when required?

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