Adequate first-aid materials, including stretchers and blankets, shall be provided at places convenient to all working areas. Water or neutralizing agents shall be available where corrosive chemicals or other harmful substances are stored, handled, or used.
56.20003 Housekeeping
At all mining operations— (a) Workplaces, passageways, storerooms, and service rooms shall be kept clean and orderly; (b) The floor of every workplace shall be maintained in a clean and, so far as possible, dry condition. Where wet processes are used, drainage shall be maintained, and false floors, platforms, mats, or other dry standing places …
56.17001 Illumination of surface working areas
Illumination sufficient to provide safe working conditions shall be provided in and on all surface structures, paths, walkways, stairways, switch panels, loading and dumping sites, and work areas.
56.5005 Control of exposure to airborne contaminants
Control of employee exposure to harmful airborne contaminants shall be, insofar as feasible, by prevention of contamination, removal by exhaust ventilation, or by dilution with uncontaminated air. However, where accepted, engineering control measures have not been developed or when necessary by the nature of work involved (for example, while establishing controls or occasional entry into …
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56.18009 Designation of person in charge
When persons are working at the mine, a competent person designated by the mine operator shall be in attendance to take charge in case of an emergency.
40.1 (b) Definitions
(b) Representative of miners means: (1) Any person or organization which represents two or more miners at a coal or other mine for the purposes of the Act, and (2) Representatives authorized by the miners, miners or their representative, authorized miner representative, and other similar terms as they appear in the Act.
47.32 HazCom program contents
The HazCom program must include the following: (a) How this part is put into practice at the mine through the use of— (1) Hazard determination, (2) Labels and other forms of warning, (3) Material safety data sheets (MSDSs), and (4) Miner training. (b) A list or other record identifying all hazardous chemicals known to be …
56.14206 (a) Securing movable parts
(a) When moving mobile equipment between workplaces, booms, forks, buckets, beds, and similar movable parts of the equipment shall be positioned in the travel mode and, if required for safe travel, mechanically secured.
56.14207 Parking procedures for unattended equipment
Mobile equipment shall not be left unattended unless the controls are placed in the park position and the parking brake, if provided, is set. When parked on a grade, the wheels or tracks of mobile equipment shall be either chocked or turned into a bank.
50.2 Definitions
As used in this part: (a) Mine means: (1) An area of land from which minerals are extracted in nonliquid form or, if in liquid form, are extracted with workers underground (2) private ways and roads appurtenant to such area, and (3) lands, excavations, underground passageways, shafts, slopes, tunnels and workings, structures, facilities, equipment, machines, tools, or …