[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 30, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 30CFR46.12]

[Page 207]
 
                       TITLE 30--MINERAL RESOURCES
 
  CHAPTER I--MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
 PART 46--TRAINING AND RETRAINING OF MINERS ENGAGED IN SHELL DREDGING OR EMPLOYED AT SAND, GRAVEL, SURFACE STONE, SURFACE CLAY, COLLOIDAL PHOSPHATE, OR SURFACE 
LIMESTONE MINES.--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 46.12  Responsibility for independent contractor training.

    (a)(1) Each production-operator has primary responsibility for 
ensuring that site-specific hazard awareness training is given to 
employees of independent contractors who are required to receive such 
training under Sec. 46.11 of this part.
    (2) Each production-operator must provide information to each 
independent contractor who employs a person at the mine on site-specific 
mine hazards and the obligation of the contractor to comply with our 
regulations, including the requirements of this part.
    (b)(1) Each independent contractor who employs a miner, as defined 
in Sec. 46.2, at the mine has primary responsibility for complying with 
Secs. 46.3 through 46.10 of this part, including providing new miner 
training, newly hired experienced miner training, new task training, and 
annual refresher training.
    (2) The independent contractor must inform the production-operator 
of any hazards of which the contractor is aware that may be created by 
the performance of the contractor's work at the mine.