Minnesota Mine Safety Association is proud to bring you our annual spring start-up seminars.  This full-day seminar is packed with information.  The educational topics are designed to help provide you the knowledge you need to maintain a safe work environment at your location. MSHA personnel will be on hand to answer your enforcement questions.   This […]

Many operators and contractors will begin wrapping up projects and buckling down for the winter months. While everything is fresh on the mind, now is a great time to meet with workers about the season and get them involved in making the next year start off in the right direction. Include all levels of personnel […]

Here are a few ideas to keep your MSHA training interesting, fresh, and interactive!   Use the guarding and ladder presentation from the MSHA website. Take out the information that says if the pictures are good or not and then print them off.  Have the students get into groups and analyze if the pictures show […]

MSHA reminds the industry that electricity can be dangerous and caution must be taken when working around energized circuits. There have been three electrical fatalities since August. While some of the voltages involved in these incidents are not all that common to the majority of miners (4,160 volts and 995 volts), one of them occurred […]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia vacated what had been the current workplace examinations rule under 56/57.18002 and denied an appeal by the Secretary, effectively rolling the rule back to the original final rule that was published in January of 2017. Among other things the rule had stated under paragraph (a) […]