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Catch Our Webinar on MSHA Part 46 and Online Training Options: Thursday, September 28, 10:00 am (Pacific)

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We’ll be hosting a webinar on the MSHA Part 46 compliance training requirements and some online training options Thursday, September 28 at 10:00 am (Pacific).

Here’s what you’ll learn:

  • MSHA Part 46–The Important Stuff
  • Key Players
  • Main Types of Training
  • Compliant Methods of Training
  • Types of Compliant Documents

Take a moment to pre-register for the webinar today, and we’ll be sure to send you some reminders as the webinar approaches as well.

If you’ve got a question you’d like us to address, feel free to leave it in the comments section below and we’ll be sure to try to answer it or point you in the right direction during the webinar. Of course, we’ll take questions then as well.

Also, know that we’ll be delivering a presentation at this year’s MSHA TRAM Conference that looks at some current and future technologies for mining safety training. We’ll keep you posted about that, and if you’re at TRAM, keep an eye out for us.

Finally, feel free to download our free Guide to Online MSHA Compliance below. See you at the webinar!

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Online MSHA Compliance Guide

Download our free guide to learn how online tools can help you create safer work conditions at a mine site, stay compliant with MSHA Part 46 regulations, and manage your training program more efficiently.

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Convergence Training Wins ISHN’s “Best Safety Training” Attendee’s Choice Award at ASSE Safety 2017

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We’re excited to announce that we won the 2017 ISHN “Best Safety Training” Attendee’s Choice Award, a result of voting held during the ASSE’s Safety 2017 conference, for our MSHA Safety Training.

This award is in addition to the earlier 2017 ISHN “Best Safety Training” Reader’s Choice Award, which our MSHA Safety Training won before the ASSE conference.

So as they say, two out of two ain’t bad!

We’d like to thank all the folks at ISHN for putting on the vote, the ASSE for hosting the attendee’s choice voting at their recent Safety 2017 event, and of course all the voters who took part. Especially those voters who felt strongly about our safety training materials. We appreciate the tip of the hat–we work hard on making safety training that makes a difference.

For those of you who don’t know, our MSHA Safety Training includes three different components:

Check out the links above for more detailed course and LMS sample and overview videos, or check the two videos below.

Here’s a short overview of some of our online safety and health training courses:

And here’s a short overview of our Convergence LMS with the MSHA Compliance Package.

Finally, feel free to download the free guide to Online MSHA Safety Training, below.

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Online MSHA Compliance Guide

Download our free guide to learn how online tools can help you create safer work conditions at a mine site, stay compliant with MSHA Part 46 regulations, and manage your training program more efficiently.

Download Free Guide

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MSHA Part 46 Training Certification Process

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In this article, we’re going to explain the MSHA Part 46 certification process for miners, and tell you what kind of MSHA Part 46 training certificate you should get when you’re training’s complete.

To set the scene, MSHA is the Mine Safety and Health Administration. It’s the mining equivalent of OSHA. And MSHA’s 30 CFR Part 46 are MSHA’s regulations for safety training provided to miners and other employees at surface mines. And we describe what a surface mine  and surface mining are here.

And with those starters covered, let’s learn more about MSHA Part 46 certification.

 

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What Is Surface Mining?

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Ever wonder to yourself: what is surface mining?

If so, this is the article for you. We’re going to explain what surface mining is and give you some information about the MSHA Part 46 training requirements for surface mines to boot.

If you read through this and are still wondering about the surface mining definition, leave a note in the comments below.

And let us know if you’d like some additional information about online safety training for surface mining too (MSHA Part 46 training).

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MSHA New Miner Training Requirements

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The MSHA Part 46 regulations, also known as 30 CFR Part 46, mandate safety training for new miners, tasks that are new to a miner, site-specific hazards at a mine, and annual refresher safety training for all miners at surface mines in the United States.

In this article, we’re going to look at the MSHA New Miner training requirements, which is also known in MSHA-speak as the Part 46 New Miner Training Plan.

We’ll put all the information you need right on the surface so you won’t have to go digging for it! Ha! Get that?

OK, here we go with our introduction to the part 46 training regulations from our good friends at MSHA.

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Convergence Training MSHA Safety Training–2017 ISHN Reader’s Choice Award Winner

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We’re proud to announce that our MSHA Safety Training compliance solution, including online mining safety training courses and a learning management system (LMS) for administering that training and creating all MSHA-required training records and documentations, just won the 2017 ISHN (Industrial Safety and Hygiene News) Reader’s Choice Award for Safety Training.

Thanks to ISHN and of course their readers for selecting us. We’re honored and will continue to create training materials of a similar high quality in the future.

Click here to see the other award winners, and congratulations to all the other winners as well.

To see more about our award-winning MSHA mining safety online courses and learning management system (LMS) for mining safety, click the MORE button to continue reading. We’ve also included a free guide to mining safety training for you at the bottom of this article.

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Safety Management Best Practices: OSHA’s Recommendations for Safety & Health Programs

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Back in October, 2016, OSHA created a final version of their new guideline for safety and health management programs, titled Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs. Around the same time, they published a helpful website full of additional materials related to best practices for safety and health programs.

We write about safety and health management from time to time. Before OSHA had finalized the new guideline, we published an article titled What Is a Safety and Health Program? And we’re also currently in the middle of an extended, multi-article series looking at safety and health management programs, which began with a comparison of different safety and health management standards and guidelines and then focused in on ANSI Z.10. And so it only seemed natural that we’d give you an overview of OSHA’s new safety and health management guideline.

We’d love to hear your opinions of and experiences with the new guideline in particular or with safety and health management in general. There’s a comments section at the bottom of this article–don’t be shy about using it.

Please note: this article is about OSHA’s safety management guideline for non-construction industry employers. See the following link for their Construction Safety Management Guidelines.

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Catch Us at the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) Annual Conference

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Annual Conference of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) and CMA 119th National Western Mining Conference in Denver, Colorado.

The conference is February 19-22, 2017, and will be held at the Colorado Convention Center.

Valerie Cantrell and Brian Andrewjeski will be staffing our booth, talking to conference attendees, taking questions, and demonstrating our Mining Safety learning management system (LMS), our mining safety eLearning courses, general safety and health eLearning courses, mobile training apps, and more.

You can find Val and Brian at Booth 1728.

Read on below if you’d like to learn more about the materials they’ll be demonstrating at SME.


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MSHA TRAM Conference, 2016

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mshaThe Mine Safety and Health Administration, more commonly known as MSHA, just held their annual Training Resources Applied to Mining conference, more commonly known as TRAM. (I am not sure I knew what TRAM stood for before today–how about you?)

We exhibited at TRAM and our intrepid Sales Account Manager Valerie Cantrell gave a presentation on how to use blended learning, including online learning activities, for mining safety training and MSHA compliance.

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Meet Convergence Training at the Southeast Mine Safety & Health Conference, November 2-4, Birmingham, Alabama

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We attend the SE Mine Safety & Health Conference every year, and we’ll be there again this year. We’re looking forward to seeing you, too!

The conference is next week. It begins on Wednesday, November 2nd and continues on both Thursday the 3rd and Friday the 4th.

Come on by and say hi to us, we’d love to chat with you and see what’s on your mind. We’ll be in Booth 23.

We’ll be demonstrating our video-based mining safety training courses and our OSHA/general industry-based safety training courses (which can also be used for MSHA compliance).

Here’s a quick sample of one of our online mining safety courses.

Click the following links if you want to learn more about our mining safety courses or our general industry safety courses.

IN ADDITION, we’ll be demonstrating our Convergence Learning Management System (LMS), an online software application you can use to manage all of your mining safety training.

Here’s a quick overview of our Convergence LMS and how it an be used for all aspects of mining safety training and MSHA compliance.

Click the following link to learn more about our training management system for mining safety.

Finally, feel free to download the free guide below to learn more about how to use online safety training tools like these for MSHA compliance. And we look forward to seeing you at the conference in Birmingham!

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Online MSHA Compliance Guide

Download our free guide to learn how online tools can help you create safer work conditions at a mine site, stay compliant with MSHA Part 46 regulations, and manage your training program more efficiently.

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Convergence Training Releases New MSHA Miner Training Courses

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safety-and-health-management-standards-and-guidelinesConvergence Training, a leading producer of industrial safety and mine training products, announced today the release of its next generation of Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) compliance training courses.

Convergence Training’s history of producing award-winning MSHA training and its longstanding position as the leader in compliant miner training contribute to its dominance in the industry. Based on the MSHA Part 46 regulations for training and retraining of surface miners and mining contractors, Convergence Training’s new courses are designed to supplement a broader range of Part 46 surface mining and Part 48 underground mining compliance programs. The computer-animated courses are produced to be used individually or purchased as bundled sets that are configured to meet core requirements for new miner and annual refresher training.

Convergence Training owner and president, Randy Kohltfarber, explains the value that these new courses offer the mining industry. “Since we released our Surface Miner Training courses in 2008, we’ve helped leading mine companies and their thousands of employees stay compliant with MSHA training regulations. I’m really proud of the work we’ve done on our new MSHA miner training courses. They simply look stunning and provide a great value from a trusted brand,” said Kohltfarber.

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Stills from Convergence Training’s new MSHA compliance courses

Convergence Training will release its MSHA mine compliance course catalog in both eLearning and DVD formats for the broadest accessibility in the industry.

View more preview clips and request full-length previews at convergencetraining.com

 

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Safety and Health Management Systems and Programs: Comparing ANSI Z10 to OSHA’s Upcoming Safety and Health Management “Program” Guidelines

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This is the second article in a longer series of articles looking at Safety and Health Management in general and at ANSI Z10, the American national standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems, in particular.

If you want to start with the first article, which serves as an introduction to the various standards and guidelines for occupational health and safety management, click that link you just read past.

But if you just want to dive into this article mid-stream, that’s fine too. We’re trying to present each article in the series as a logical, “bite-sized” bit of information that stands alone.

And so this article is going to look at an interesting distinction: the difference between management “systems,” such as the health and safety management system model detailed in ANSI Z10 (as well as similar guidelines for creating management systems in the upcoming ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System standard, the ISO 9000 Quality Management System standard, and the ISO 14000 Environmental Management System standard), with OSHA’s guideline for an occupational health and safety “program.”

Or, to put that in fewer words, we’re going to look at the issue of management “systems” as opposed to management “programs” in the context of occupational health and safety.

Of course, we acknowledge that the OSHA Safety and Health Management Program Guideline is not yet in final form. So it may look different when it’s final. But we’ll compare what we can compare today, and in doing so we’ll get an interesting look at the distinction between “systems” and “programs.”

(NOTE: Since we first wrote this blog post, OSHA has released their revised safety and health management program guidelines in final form. Click here to read OSHA’s Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs and/or download it as a PDF.)

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