This 24-hour MSHA New Miner Training course equips participants with essential knowledge and skills to ensure safety and compliance in mining environments. The curriculum covers hazard recognition and mitigation, including electrical risks, traffic management, mobile equipment operations, ground stability, and confined space entry procedures. Participants will explore accident prevention, investigation techniques, and machine guarding protocols, alongside fatality reviews to reinforce lessons learned. The course emphasizes safe work practices, regulatory standards, and health considerations, including chemical hazards, Hazard Communication (HazCom), Global Harmonized System (GHS), respiratory protection, hearing conservation (Part 62), back safety, and substance abuse prevention. Comprehensive training on personal protective equipment (PPE), fall prevention, and addressing slips, trips, and falls is included, along with emergency procedures such as first aid, CPR, AED usage, fire safety, medical response, and evacuation plans. Participants will also learn about miners’ statutory rights, the roles and responsibilities of supervisors and representatives, and proper hazard reporting protocols. This course ensures new miners are well-prepared to navigate workplace hazards and contribute to a safe mining environment.

OFTC is required to have an updated MSHA Training Plan and MSHA ID number on file from each company before training can begin.

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