The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) released three proposed rules on July 1 aimed at revising the criteria for approving safety plans in underground coal mines.

The Mine Safety & Health Administration (“MSHA”) has finally published its final rule on Safety Programs for Surface Mobile Equipment. This final rule has been a long time coming. MSHA originally ...

Review of process safety risk assessments detects a common culprit. Downstream oil and gas firms devote considerable resources to ensure that workers at their industrial facilities apply Process ...

Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health Dave D. Lauriski wants miners in the United States to "stand down for safety." A recent rise in mining accidents prompted Lauriski to ask mine ...

MSHA inspectors and technical personnel are required to have periodic medical examinations and meet U.S. Office of Personnel Management-approved medical standards. MSHA determined approximately 15 to ...

Process safety is about understanding hazards and risk, managing risk by providing the appropriate layers of protection to reduce the frequency and severity of incidents, and learning from incidents ...

In a report examining the roof control plan for Crandall Canyon Mine, where six miners and three rescuers perished in August 2007, the Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) concluded ...