MSHA will be holding public meetings to “gather information about effective, comprehensive safety and health management programs at mines”. There will be three of them. It amazes yours truly that two of the three are during TRAM, an event in MSHA’s own Mine Safety Academy in West Virginia that attracts the best mine safety professionals from around the country. While it’s possible there will be the gathering of such information there for MSHA as well it is strange and untimely that MSHA officially seems to have ignored it’s own event as a wonderful opportunity to acquire this information. Certainly there are those who don’t attend the event who have important things to add to the discussion it seems strange to remove the hundreds who will attend TRAM from participating.
Below is a link to the notice in the Federal Register. Yes, I read those boring things daily. Information is provided there about the events, their intent to use the information to “develop a proposed rule for Safety and Health Management Programs for mines which will allow miners and operators to be proactive in their approach to health and safety”, and instructions on how to comment.
Click here for: Federal Register Notice