The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) Part 46 2024 Refresher (8-Hour) course is designed to provide participants with up-to-date training/information, as well as provide the mine’s Competent Person with the tools needed to promote a high level of both focus and safety at all times.

MSHA requires yearly refresher training for miners working in sand, gravel, surface stone, surface clay, colloidal phosphate, or surface limestone mines, and this course provides that comprehensive overview. In addition to the material covered in this course, the Competent Person must provide the miner at a minimum with instruction on changes at the mine that could adversely affect the miner's safety and health.

PLEASE NOTE: The training is only applicable to the MSHA Title 30, Part 46 regulations for sand, gravel, surface stone, surface clay, colloidal phosphate, or surface limestone mining. This training does not fulfill Part 48 training requirements. Please contact the mine you are planning to enter to verify whether you must complete Part 46 or Part 48 training. 

NOTICE: THE FOLLOWING IS NEW FOR 2024

• COVID-19 is still with us. A brief review of symptoms and how you can reduce your risk
• MSHA’s response to the sharp increase of fatalities in early 2023 with an electrical safety alert, the establishment of a “Stand Down to Save Lives” day in May, and the continuation of impact inspections
• The top 10 citations issued by MSHA to raise awareness among miners
• Lessons learned in 2023 to prevent fatal incidents and future catastrophes
• MSHA’s series of safety and health alerts on heat stress, highwall safety, hazardous chemicals, preventing falls from heights, hearing loss, enclosed cabs, and mobile mining operations and equipment health
• MSHA’s continued Silica Enforcement Initiative with increased air sampling in jobs and locations with known higher levels of respirable crystalline silica exposure
• Information on MSHA’s new proposed reduction of silica dust exposure rule
• Reintroduction of MSHA’s Safety and Health App for mobile devices that provides miners access to information on miner’s rights, fatalgrams, etc.
• MSHA’s legislative agenda for 2023-2024, including MSHA’s Proposed Surface Mine Equipment Rule and the Proposed Reduction of Silica Dust Exposure Rule that could see further revision or become final in late 2023 or early 2024