---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 46.12"
title: "30"
number: "46.12"
heading: "Responsibility for independent contractor training."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/46.12"
---

# §46.12. Responsibility for independent contractor training.

- (a)
  - (1) Each production-operator has primary responsibility for ensuring that site-specific hazard awareness training is given to employees of independent contractors who are required to receive such training under [§ 46.11](/cfr/30/46.11.md) of this part.
  - (2) Each production-operator must provide information to each independent contractor who employs a person at the mine on site-specific mine hazards and the obligation of the contractor to comply with our regulations, including the requirements of this part.
- (b)
  - (1) Each independent contractor who employs a miner, as defined in [§ 46.2](/cfr/30/46.2.md), at the mine has primary responsibility for complying with [§§ 46.3 through 46.10](/cfr/30/46.3..46.10.md) of this part, including providing new miner training, newly hired experienced miner training, new task training, and annual refresher training.
  - (2) The independent contractor must inform the production-operator of any hazards of which the contractor is aware that may be created by the performance of the contractor's work at the mine.

## Notes

### Authority

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

### Source

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