[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: 30CFR48.11]

[Page 226]
 
                       TITLE 30--MINERAL RESOURCES
 
  CHAPTER I--MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 48--TRAINING AND RETRAINING OF MINERS--Table of Contents
 
        Subpart A--Training and Retraining of Underground Miners
 
Sec. 48.11  Hazard training.

    (a) Operators shall provide to those miners, as defined in 
Sec. 48.2(a)(2) (Definition of miner) of this subpart A, a training 
program before such miners commence their work duties. This training 
program shall include the following instruction, which is applicable to 
the duties of such miners:
    (1) Hazard recognition and avoidance;
    (2) Emergency and evacuation procedures;
    (3) Health and safety standards, safety rules, and safe working 
procedures;
    (4) Use of self-rescue and respiratory devices, with self-contained 
self-rescue device training that includes complete donning procedures in 
which each person assumes a donning position, opens the device, 
activates the device, inserts the mouthpiece or simulates this task 
while explaining proper insertion of the mouthpiece, and puts on the 
nose clip; and
    (5) Such other instruction as may be required by the District 
Manager based on circumstances and conditions at the mine.
    (b) Miners shall receive the instruction required by this section at 
least once every 12 months.
    (c) The training program required by this section shall be submitted 
with the training plan required by Sec. 48.3(a) (Training plans: 
Submission and approval) of this subpart A and shall include a statement 
on the methods of instruction to be used.
    (d) In accordance with Sec. 48.9 (Records of training) of this 
subpart A, the operator shall maintain and make available for inspection 
certificates that miners have received the hazard training required by 
this section.
    (e) Miners subject to hazard training shall be accompanied at all 
times while underground by an experienced miner, as defined in 
Sec. 48.2(b) (Definition of miner) of this subpart A.

[43 FR 47459, Oct. 13, 1978, as amended at 47 FR 23640, May 25, 1982; 53 
FR 10336, Mar. 30, 1988]