This year, MSHA awarded $250K in Brookword-Sago grants! Each of the five recipients are being given $50K to use towards training programs and materials in order to identify, avoid and prevent unsafe mine working conditions! The recipients of these grants are the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Illinois Eastern Community College, Oconee Fall Line Technical…
Florida Mine Safety Program has won the 2017 Communicator Award, given by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts! We’ve won with our video entry, “Confined Spaces in Mining—Authorized Attendants and Practical Rescue Plans,” which was produced by Thunder Bay Productions of Atlanta and Lava Post Production of Atlanta. Check out our award-winning video here,…
This month, Safety Products, Inc.’s Safety Matters newsletter focuses on team effort. The topic is “Safety is a Team Sport. The Power of a Team.” In this edition, Carl Potter (CSP, CMC) discusses types of teams, safety in teams, leadership of teams and all other things teams! He also asks, “Is the team of people…
MSHA held an important webinar on Wednesday, May 17—Nick Scala (Co-Chair of MSHA’s Safety Practice Group) led the webinar on the topic of MSHA’s Most-Cited Standards and How to Avoid Them! Participants learned about MSHA’s most-cited standards for various industry sectors, as well as mining subgroup-specific enforcement tendencies. To learn more about the webinar series,…
On April 28 WCTV Eyewitness News reported our event, the Annual Workers Memorial Day and Day of Mourning for Miners. Read more for a recap of the event from April 28.
For our Annual Workers Memorial Day/ Day of Mourning for Miners, WTXL ABC 27 attended and gathered video footage. Jon Heaser, of Mosaic, was interviewed and discussed the importance of safety in mining. Read More for a recap of the event.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) final rule on occupational exposure to crystalline silica in construction, published on March 25, 2016, established a new permissible exposure limit (PEL) and contained several other significant requirements pertaining to both construction and to general industry/maritime. Read More
Tune in Tuesday April 25, 2017, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET for a Mine Safety and Health Administration Quarterly Training Call. During the call, MSHA will review fatalities, as well as near misses, that occurred in coal, metal and nonmetal mines since January 2017. In particular, MSHA will discuss those fatal accidents that…
The Protecting America’s Workers Act (H.R. 914 – PAW Act) was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on February 7, 2017. The Democratic-sponsored bill was referred to the Education & Workforce Committee pending further consideration. Read More
On April 5, 2017 the Florida Mine Safety Program will be participating in a Global Safety Stand-down to coincide with our annual MSHA refresher. The event will be held at the Florida Public Safety Institute Conference Center in Havana, Florida. The current focus is on integrating life-saving rules and housekeeping components into the annual elements of the…