MSHA Team Meeting
09/27/2006
9:40 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Attendees:
Joseph Breighner
Allison Czapracki
LaTanger Gray
Rashmi Jain
Abigail Jones
Dr. Dabbagh – Faculty Advisor
Paul Bizich Jr. - Supervisory Mine Safety & Health Specialist - MSHA
Don Conrad - Mine Safety & Health Specialist, Educational Field Services - MSHA
Items Discussed:
- Pre-shift examination duties
- Dust Control: include dust parameter checks
- Ventilation, Gasses and Gas Testing
- Guarding
- Fire Hazards
- Roof and Rib Control
- Different Module: Duties and Responsibilities of Supervisors under the Act
- Record keeping embedded in this duty
- Every mine has an approved ventilation plan
- Bizich: Generic JTAs do not have references to federal laws
- Team prioritized modules based on recommendations from Conrad:
- Roof and Rib Control
- Ventilation (Gases)
- Dust Control (Safety and Health) – discuss particle control
- General Housekeeping
- Emergency and Unusual Situations
- Fire Hazards
- Training Responsibilities (embed safety considerations)
- Guarding
- Recordkeeping
- Duties and Responsibilities under the Act
- Areas to Check
- Production,
- Math Skills
- Law
- JTAs
- Training Responsibilities:
- OJT – On the job skill / safety training
- Self contained self rescuer training (4-6 on market)
- Fire Drills (training)
- Escape way drills (training)
- Changes in mine plans (roof control, ventilation, health control (plans))
- Safety talks – messages
- Record keeping
- Personal notes
- Official record books
- Training records – 5000-23s
- Production Records (mine specific)
- Team reviewed 6 generic JTAs with Bizich and Conrad. SMEs rated duties within the JTAs by importance and categorized duties/tasks.
- Generic JTA Categories:
- Roof and Rib Control
- Ventilation (Gases)
- Dust Control (Safety and Health) – discuss particle control
- General Housekeeping
- Emergency and Unusual Situations
- Fire Hazards
- Training Responsibilities (embed safety considerations)
- Guarding
- Recordkeeping
- Duties and Responsibilities under the Act
- Production
- Team reviewed video on low coal mines, continuous haulage
Future
- Get permission from MSHA and Colorado to use cert. videos
- Conrad will provide more in-depth course content for roof and rib control
- Look in code to find Escape and Emergency Evacuation Plan
- Sharon Cook at MSHA is a JTA developer, Bizich will contact her to act as our SME
- Get permission to use PA PPT slides for Ventilation, Roof Control, etc.
- Isolate sections of generic JTA, convert to accessible format – modules within WC will link to appropriate generic JTAs (checklists)
- Offer PDFs of generic JTAs as single JTA files, and one document with all JTAs
- Read 75.360 and 75.362 in the 30 CFR to learn about Pre-Shift and On-Shift Examinations
