MINER RESPONSIBILITIES

Everyone at the mine site shares responsibility for maintaining safe and healthy working conditions. The employer is responsible for providing the necessary information, training, and supervision to all workers. Supervisors are responsible for ensuring that miners are properly trained and that MSHA and OSHA requirements are followed. As a miner, you are responsible for complying with all applicable federal and state regulations, as well as your mine’s safety and health policies, and for consistently practicing safe work habits.

When you and your coworkers actively participate in the mine’s safety and health program and fulfill your responsibilities, you play a key role in reducing workplace accidents, occupational illnesses, and fatalities.

REFUSAL TO WORK

If you decline to perform work due to unsafe or unhealthy conditions, you are required to notify the mine operator, supervisor, or another designated responsible individual. This notification allows the operator the opportunity to evaluate and address the condition.

FALSE STATEMENTS AND FALSE REPRESENTATIONS

Pursuant to Section 110(f) of the Mine Act, all statements and representations you make -whether spoken or written- must be truthful in any matter related to mine operations, including:

Investigation documentation.

Inspection documentation.

Applications.

Reports.

Plans.

Training certificates.

All other documents that are kept or filed by the Mine Act.

Failure to follow this regulation may result in fines, imprisonment for up to five years, or both.

ADVANCE NOTICE OF MSHA INSPECTION

Under Section 110(e) of the Mine Act, you may be fined, imprisoned, or both if you give advance notice of an MSHA inspection.

SMOKING RESTRICTIONS

Under Section 110(f) of the Mine Act, smoking is strictly prohibited in the following locations:

All underground coal mines.

Gassy underground metal and nonmetal mines.

Areas near the storage, handling, or distribution of combustible or flammable materials or waste.

Explosives storage magazines.

Any surface areas where smoking could create a fire or explosion hazard.

The following restrictions also apply to you and all other mine employees:

Smoking or carrying smoking materials is not permitted in underground coal mines or gassy underground metal and nonmetal mines.

Smoking or the use of open flames is prohibited in surface coal mine areas where they could cause a fire or explosion.

Smoking or using open flames is forbidden in underground metal and nonmetal mine areas where flammable or combustible liquids or gases are used, transported, stored, or handled.

Smoking is prohibited within 50 feet of areas where explosives or detonators are stored at non-coal mines.

Smoking is prohibited in uranium mines where radon daughter exposure measurements are required.

Smoking is prohibited in uranium mines where radon daughter exposure measurements are required.