MSHA’s new requirements as of June 2 are: • A competent person must complete a workplace examination at least once each shift for each working place where miners are scheduled to work. • The ...

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The DOL’s Mine Safety and Health Administration proposed a rule to improve workplace examinations ... the MSHA said that an examination could have prevented the accident. According to the ...

Decision relies on Mine Safety Act ban on rule changes that make mining less safe. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned a Mine Safety and Health ...

After a court rejected Mine Safety and Health Administration’s (MSHA’s) 2018 changes to its metal/non-metal workplace examination rule, the MSHA published an announcement that reinstates the ...

Under current MSHA standards, a workplace examination can be conducted at any time during a shift. But the rules in place now do not specify what information should be included or require mine ...

MSHA said the first proposed rule would require that an examination of the working place be conducted before work begins or as miners begin work in that place, and that the examination record ...