Charity Dinner Auction, Door Prize & Conference Bag Items Needed? Great Way To Market Your Company/Show Your Support! Ideas for conference bag items: branded pens/pencils, stress “squeezers”, mini flashlights, key chains, cups, many other options. Contact us if you have items you would like to donate for the conference bag. We will need them…
Please join us Monday, September 26, 2016 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. EST for a Mine Safety and Health Administration stakeholder meeting. At this meeting we will brief you on the strategies, tools and materials available for stakeholders to help promote and support the upcoming October 30, 2016 Mine Rescue Day and December 6,…
The Southeast Safety & Health Conference is taking place on November 2nd, 3rd and 4th 2016. Find information on submission deadlines, early bird pricing deadlines, 2016 conference agenda, registration and much more by clicking on the link below. 2016 Southeast Safety & Health Conference
Who: U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration What: The Mine Safety and Health Administration announced today that federal inspectors issued 161 citations during special impact inspections conducted at 11 coal mines and six metal and nonmetal mines in July. Where: MSHA conducted special impact inspections at mines in Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut,…
Check out this article to stay up-to-date on contact safety. Take the quiz at the end and email it to Lisa Olson with the State of Nevada Mine Safety & Training Section. AUGUST 2016 STRESS
Zika Is Now an OSHA Issue By: Adele L. Abrams, Esq., CMSP In August 2016, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed that there are now cases of the Zika virus, which were locally acquired from mosquitoes in the United States in Florida. The spread of the virus domestically at this point may be inevitable,…
Build strong safety skills this summer! In this edition, you’ll find information about Pickett and Associates, Inc., Vulcan Black, CCC Group Employee Safety Day, the 8th Annual Instructor Training Seminar, MSHA Quarterly Training Call, car safety, the 31st FLSME Regional Mining Conference and our MSHA Annual Refresher Course. Read full E-Newsletter
Nation’s premier mine health, safety training facility turns 40 MSHA, mining community celebrate national academy’s anniversary ARLINGTON, Va. – Over the past 40 years, tens of thousands of mine inspectors and mine safety professionals have passed through the doors of the National Mine Health and Safety Academy in West Virginia. Dedicated in 1976, the complex…
40th Anniversary Celebration of the National Mine Health and Safety Academy This August marks the 40th anniversary of the National Mine Health and Safety Academy (Academy) in Beaver, West Virginia. To commemorate the Academy’s 40 years of service to the nation’s miners through education and training, Florida Mine Safety is attending an anniversary celebration at the…
MSHA announces 2016 national mine rescue competition winners Agency’s Main notes major improvements in mine emergency response since 2010 ARLINGTON, Va. – A team from Carlsbad, New Mexico, beat out 35 teams from 16 states nationwide to finish first at the 2016 National Metal and Nonmetal Mine Rescue Contest in Reno, Nevada. This year’s winner,…