---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 46.11"
title: "30"
number: "46.11"
heading: "Site-specific hazard awareness training."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/46.11"
---

# §46.11. Site-specific hazard awareness training.

- (a) You must provide site-specific hazard awareness training before any person specified under this section is exposed to mine hazards.
- (b) You must provide site-specific hazard awareness training, as appropriate, to any person who is not a miner as defined by [§ 46.2](/cfr/30/46.2.md) of this part but is present at a mine site, including:
  - (1) Office or staff personnel;
  - (2) Scientific workers;
  - (3) Delivery workers;
  - (4) Customers, including commercial over-the-road truck drivers;
  - (5) Construction workers or employees of independent contractors who are not miners under [§ 46.2](/cfr/30/46.2.md) of this part;
  - (6) Maintenance or service workers who do not work at the mine site for frequent or extended periods; and
  - (7) **Vendors or visitors.**
- (c) You must provide miners, such as drillers or blasters, who move from one mine to another mine while remaining employed by the same production-operator or independent contractor with site-specific hazard awareness training for each mine.
- (d) Site-specific hazard awareness training is information or instructions on the hazards a person could be exposed to while at the mine, as well as applicable emergency procedures. The training must address site-specific health and safety risks, such as unique geologic or environmental conditions, recognition and avoidance of hazards such as electrical and powered-haulage hazards, traffic patterns and control, and restricted areas; and warning and evacuation signals, evacuation and emergency procedures, or other special safety procedures.
- (e) You may provide site-specific hazard awareness training through the use of written hazard warnings, oral instruction, signs and posted warnings, walkaround training, or other appropriate means that alert persons to site-specific hazards at the mine.
- (f) Site-specific hazard awareness training is not required for any person who is accompanied at all times by an experienced miner who is familiar with hazards specific to the mine site.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 811, 825.

### Source

Source: 64 FR 53130, Sept. 30, 1999, unless otherwise noted.