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The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) (/ ˈ ɛ m ʃ ə /) is a large agency of the United States Department of Labor which administers the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act) to enforce compliance with mandatory safety and health standards as a means to eliminate fatal accidents, to reduce the frequency and severity of nonfatal accidents, to ...
English: The Mines Regulations 2014 (the “Regulations”) consolidate and modernise the law on health and safety in mines in Great Britain. The Regulations implement, as regards Great Britain, Council Directive 1992-104-EEC on the minimum requirements for improving the safety and health protection of workers in surface and underground mineral-extracting industries.
The Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 is an International Labor Organization Convention adopted at the 82nd International Labor Conference (ILC). The convention (C176) was developed and adopted to better recognize the inherent hazards of the mining workplace and the necessity of addressing these hazards on a global scale.
Federal Mines Safety Act of 1910; Long title: An Act to establish in the Department of the Interior a Bureau of Mines. Nicknames: Federal Mines Accident Prevention and Safety Act of 1910: Enacted by: the 61st United States Congress: Effective: July 1, 1910: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. 61–179: Statutes at Large: 36 Stat. 369-b, Chap. 240 ...
The act 23 & 24 Vict. c. 151, sometimes called the Mines Regulation Act 1860, [3] the Mines Act 1860, [4] the Inspection of Mines Act 1860, [5] the Regulation and Inspection of Mines Act 1860, [6] the Coal Mines Act 1860, [7] the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1860, [8] the Inspection and Regulation of Coal Mines Act 1860, [9] or the Inspection of Coal Mines Act, [10] is an Act of the Parliament of ...
Mountaintop removal coal mining in Martin County, Kentucky Strip mining in Barnesville, Ohio. Environmental justice and coal mining in Appalachia is the study of environmental justice – the interdisciplinary body of social science literature studying theories of the environment and justice; environmental laws, policies, and their implementations and enforcement; development and ...
It can be found in the United States Code under Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining, Chapter 22, Mine Safety and Health. The S. 717 legislation was passed by the 95th United States Congressional session and enacted into law by the 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter on November 9, 1977. [ 1 ]
The Coal Mines Regulation Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 57), also known as the Eight Hours Act or the Coal Mines (Eight Hours) Act, [1] was a piece of social legislation passed in 1908 in the United Kingdom by the Liberal government. It limited the hours a miner could work to eight hours per day. [2]