The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration unveiled a new safety initiative designed to highlight the leading causes of mine fatalities in the 21st century. The Safety ...

The training plan does not need to be submitted to MSHA for prior approval, but must be available to all miners and MSHA at any time. The mine person responsible for Health and Safety (there needs to ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has made $10.5 million in grant funding available to support mine safety training nationwide. These funds, part of the ...

Following in the wake of multiple federal agencies having issued a long list of expansive deregulation measures aimed at fulfilling President Trump’s aggressive policy agenda, the Mine Safety and ...

On December 20, 2023, and more than two years after announcing a proposed rule, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) issued its much-anticipated final rule regarding safety plans for ...

The rule finalizes an emergency temporary standard that MSHA issued earlier this year. The agency held public hearings to discuss the temporary standard, which was designed to improve miner safety by ...