[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: 30CFR48.31]

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                       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 B--Training and Retraining of Miners Working at Surface Mines 
                 and Surface Areas of Underground Mines
 
Sec. 48.31  Hazard training.

    (a) Operators shall provide to those miners, as defined in 
Sec. 48.22(a) (2) (Definition of miner) of this subpart B, 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) Self-rescue and respiratory devices; 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. 48.23(a)

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(Training plans: Submission and approval) of this subpart B and shall 
include a statement on the methods of instruction to be used.
    (d) In accordance with Sec. 48.29 (Records of training) of this 
subpart B, the operator shall maintain and make available for 
inspection, certificates that miners have received the instruction 
required by this section.

[43 FR 47459, Oct. 13, 1978, as amended at 47 FR 23641, May 28, 1982]