STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 I.      Demonstrate the use of 30 CFR.  (The entire topical outline)

 II.     Explain why and how the Mine Safety Health Administration (MSHA) was formed.

 III.    Explain how mining products are approved for use in underground coal mining.

 IV.     Define a Representative of Miners.

 V.      Explain what a legal identity is.

 VI.     Explain the procedure for processing complaints.

 VII.    Describe how to file a petition for modification.

 VIII.   Describe how subcontractors are handled under the law.

 IX.     Define the various training requirements under the law.

 X       Explain when it is required to report accidents and injuries.

 XI.     Explain the difference between a health standard and a safety standard.

 XII.    List the types of mining activities that are covered under 30 CFR.

 XIII.   Describe how civil penalties are assessed in the mining industry.

 XIV.    Define a pattern of violations.

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I.      Subchapter A ¿ Official Emblem and OMB Control Numbers for Recordkeeping and Reporting.  Parts 1 and 3

         A.      Mine Safety and Health Administration; establishment and use of official emblem.

         B.      OMB control numbers under the paperwork reduction act.

 II.     Subchapter B ¿ Testing, Evaluation and Approval of Mining Products.

         A.      Fees for testing, evaluation and approval of mining products.

         B.      Testing by applicant or third party.

         C.      Requirements for approval of explosives and sheathed explosive units.

         D.      Electric motor-driven mine equipment and accessories.

         E.      Electric cap lamps.

         F.      Electric mine lamps other than standard cap lamps.

         G.      Portable methane detectors.

         H.      Telephones and signaling devices.

         I.      Methane-monitoring devices.

         J.      Fuses for use with direct current in providing short-circuit protection for trailing cables in coal mines.

         K.      Dust collectors for use in connection with rock drilling in cola mines.

         L.      Fire-resistant hydraulic fluids.

         M.      Approval requirements for permissible mobile diesel-powered transportation equipment.

 III.    Subchapter G ¿ Filing and Other Administrative Requirements.

         A.      Representative of Miners

         B.      Notification of Legal Identity

         C.      National Mine Health and Safety Academy

         D.      Procedures for processing hazardous conditions complaints.

         E.      Rules of practice for petitions for modification of mandatory safety standards.

         F.      Independent contractors.

 IV.     Subchapter H ¿ Education and Training

         A.      Training and retraining of miners engaged in shell dredging or employed at sand, gravel, surface stone, surface clay, colloidal phosphate, or surface limestone mines.

         B.      Hazard communication (HazCom)

         C.      Training and retraining of miners.

         D.      Mine rescue teams.

 V.      Subchapter I ¿ Accidents, Injuries, Illnesses, Employment, and Production in Mines.

         A.      Notification, investigation, reports and records of accident, injuries, illnesses, employment, and coal production in mines.

 VI.     Subchapter K ¿ Metal and Nonmetal Mine Safety and Health

         A.      Safety and health standards ¿ surface metal and nonmetal mines.

         B.      Safety and health standards ¿ underground metal and nonmetal mines.

         C.      Health standards for metal and nonmetal mines.

 VII.    Subchapter M ¿ uniform Mine Health Regulations.

         A.      Occupational noise exposure.

 VIII.   Subchapter O ¿ Coal Mine Safety and Health

         A.      Mandatory health standards ¿ underground coal mines

         B.      Mandatory health standards ¿ surface coal mines and surface work areas of underground coal mines

 IX.     Health standards for coal mines

         A.      Coal mine dust personal sampler units

         B.      Mandatory safety standards ¿ underground coal mines

         C.      Mandatory safety standards ¿ surface coal mines and surface work areas of underground coal mines

         D.      Mandatory health standards ¿ coal miners who have evidence of the development of pneumoconiosis

 X       Subchapter P - Civil Penalties for violation of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977

         A.      Criteria and procedures fro proposed assessment of civil penalties.

 XI.     Subchapter Q ¿ Pattern of Violations

         A.      Pattern of violations