---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 75.1714"
title: "30"
number: "75.1714"
heading: "Availability of approved self-rescue devices; instruction in use and location."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/75.1714"
---

# §75.1714. Availability of approved self-rescue devices; instruction in use and location.

- (a) Each operator shall make available to each miner who goes underground, and to visitors authorized to enter the mine by the operator, an approved self-rescue device or devices which is adequate to protect such person for 1 hour or longer.
- (b) Before any person authorized by the operator goes underground, the operator shall instruct and train such person in accordance with provisions set forth in [30 CFR part 48](/cfr/30/part48.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[43 FR 54246, Nov. 21, 1978, as amended at 53 FR 10336, Mar. 30, 1988; 60 FR 30401, June 8, 1995; 71 FR 71454, Dec. 8, 2006]

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 811, 813(h), 957.

### Source

Source: 35 FR 17890, Nov. 20, 1970, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[43 FR 54246, Nov. 21, 1978, as amended at 53 FR 10336, Mar. 30, 1988; 60 FR 30401, June 8, 1995; 71 FR 71454, Dec. 8, 2006]