Performance Goal MSHA 2.1: Mine Safety and Health

Prevent death, disease, and injury from mining and promote safe and healthful workplaces for the Nation’s miners.

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Improving Working Conditions -- MSHA’s approach to reducing workplace fatalities and injuries includes promulgating and enforcing mandatory health and safety standards through complete annual inspections of each mine, targeting the most common causes of fatal mine accidents and disasters through initiatives such as Rules to Live By, reducing exposure to health risks from mine dusts and other contaminants, improving training of miners including new and inexperienced miners and contractors, targeting the most egregious and persistent violators, improving mine emergency response preparedness by MSHA and the mining industry, enhancing enforcement of miners’ rights to report hazardous conditions with protection against retaliation, and encouraging and enforcing a focus on prevention.

Stakeholder(s):

• MSHA: MSHA is the worker protection agency focused on the prevention of death, disease, and injury from mining and promotion of safe and healthful workplaces for the Nation’s miners. The Department believes that every worker has a right to a safe and healthy workplace. Miners in particular should never have to sacrifice their lives for their livelihood, and all workers deserve to come home to their families at the end of their shift safe and whole. MSHA is committed to preventing workplace injuries and fatalities and honors the lost lives of miners by doing its job with the utmost integrity and thoroughness.

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