24-Hour Part 46 New Miner

MSHA Part 46 is a federal mandate for training regarding health and safety requirements for surface miners set out at 30 C.F.R.

To further clarify this 24 hour class is qualification for New Surface Miners who are involved inshell dredging, sand, gravel, surface stone, surface clay, colloidal phosphate, and surface limestone mines.

It is important to note that Part 48 Surface training satisfies Part 46 Surface, but Part 46 does not satisfy Part 48, primarily due to the Part 48 training must be offered by an Authorized Outreach Trainer.
The Part 48 training applies to all surface mines and surface areas of undergroundmines, except as covered by Part 46.

The Part 46 regulations require comprehensive training for personsengaged in mining operations including service workers who work at a mine site forfrequent or extended periods. Per existing policy, “frequent” exposure involves apattern of recurring exposure, and “extended” exposure is exposure of more than 5consecutive workdays.

Under both Parts 48 and 46, workers who are not required to have comprehensivetraining, take hazard training.

To fully understand the scope of the training requirements and offerings under the ACT mandated by the Mine Act the following courses provide this comprehensive overview:

40 hours – New Underground Miners
24 hours – New Surface Miners
8 hours – Annual Refresher Training
New Task Training
Compensation of miners for training
Certification of such training.

NOTE:

These minimum requirements must be included in an operator training plan which must be approved by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (“MSHA”).

All of these section 115 requirements, along with the requirement for hazard training, are included in the training regulations at 30 C.F.R. Part 48.

When MSHA added the training provisions under Law as mandated requirements; in other words making training mandatory under federal law 30 C.F.R. This mandate made training or the lack thereof capable of being cited and a responsibility under the law by fine or citation.
It is now mandatory for the retraining and training of workers employed at mine sites for colloidal phosphate, surface stone, shell dredging, surface clay, surface sand, or gravel mines.