Annual report and achievments: Fiscal Year 1978. Part 1

Technical Report · Fri Mar 28 04:00:00 EST 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5729302· OSTI ID:5729302

For employees of the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the 1978 fiscal year, which covered most of the first year following enactment of the far-reaching Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, was a period of challenge, change and rededication to the agency's mission of reducing deaths, injuries and illnesses in the Nation's mines. As the year ended on September 30, 1978, it could be said both that promising beginnings had been made in embarking on important new courses under the 1977 Act and that a good deal more remained to be done to assure that all miners can fulfill their vital roles in meeting national energy and mineral needs at no cost to their safety or health. In the ensuing months of 1978 and early 1979, a number of additional difficult tasks required to implement the Act had been completed or were under way. The Federal Mine Safety and Health Act was enacted on November 9, 1977, and took effect on March 9, 1978. At that time, the Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration (MESA) was transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Labor and renamed Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). Under the 1977 Act, the rights and entitlements of miners were significantly expanded. The Act provided that a miner or representative of miners be allowed to accompany an MSHA inspector during a mine inspection and attend any pre- or post-inspection conferences at full pay for time spent in such activities. Miners' rights to have inspections made at their request were increased. The Act provided that miners were to be paid during periods in which a mine or part of a mine is closed because of a withdrawal order.

• Research Organization: Mine Safety and Health Administration, Arlington, VA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5729302
• Report Number(s): NP-3902704; ON: DE83902704
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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