You’ve signed up for online MSHA training with MSC. Great choice. Now your employees have started their MSHA training but you want to know how far they’ve gotten in case someone needs a bit of “encouragement”. But how do you do that?

Below are the step-by-step instructions that will guide you through the whole process.

Online MSHA Training Reporting- A Step-By-Step Guide

First, go to the MSC training portal and log in to your manager profile. Your case-sensitive username and password should have been sent in your sign up email.

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Your employees have finished their MSHA training. But how do you print and complete their MSHA certificates?

First, go to the MSC training portal and log in to your manager profile. Your case-sensitive username and password should have been sent in your sign up email.

To view and print student certificates scroll your mouse over the “Reports” button as shown here: Click “Student Records“ On the next page click “generate report” as seen here: Then click on the username the employee whose certificate you need to print. Click on the “certificate” icon for the MSHA training course they completed. As seen here in the dark gray: You can now print their certificate.

Experiencing one of the issues below? Click on the link to go right to that section

1. Video buffering issues
2. Editing or updating profile information
3. Changing your password
4. “I forgot my password”
5. My login isn’t working
6. Didn’t get login info
7. Blank name on MSHA certificate
8. Blank address on MSHA certificate
9. How do I print an employee certificate from my manager profile?
10. How do I check on employee progress from my manager profile?

The video just keeps loading

You should never see the screen below for more than a few seconds.

If this screen shows up for 30 seconds or more, there are a few simple steps you can take.

1. Did you complete our system test? If not, start the system test on the main course selection page. This will automatically scan your computer to make sure you meet our (very low) system requirements.
2. What Internet browser are you using? The system is designed to run well on any modern browser, but sometimes they don’t want to play nice.

First, make sure you have that latest version of IE, chrome or Firefox installed.

If you’re on IE or chrome and still having an issue with buffering, it’s time to try Firefox. You can download Firefox (for free) right here. After you’ve installed Firefox, log back into your profile on training.minesafetycenter.com and launch the course. That usually fixes any buffering issues.

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Tomorrow (April 25th) is the last day to let MSHA know that you want their disastrous new workplace exam rule delayed.

You can submit your comment right here.

MSHA has been seeking comments on its proposal to delay the effective date of the metal/non‑metal workplace exam rule “to provide stakeholders training and compliance assistance.”

As Mine Industry Attorney (and friend of MSC) Willa Perlmutter puts it:

It’s an odd basis for saying they want to extend the rule, since the need for stakeholder training and compliance assistance was surely contemplated when the final rule was published back in January.  This leads me to think that MSHA is considering whether to pull (or at least, to radically amend) the rule altogether.

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This guide will teach you to print your MSHA Part 46 Certificate after you’ve already completed your MSHA training with MSC.

When you finish MSC’s Part 46 training, you still need to print your MSHA Part 46 Certificate. When all of the modules are complete, a new button will appear on your homepage, like this:

To print your MSHA certificate, click the new button.

A new browser window containing your MSHA Part 46 certificate will open. Make sure all the information is correct. Then click the “print certificate” button at the top right of the screen:

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Every trainee profile needs to be complete in order to get the most out of MSC’s automatic certificate features. You will need some information that is not standard on most paperwork, including:

1. Each trainee’s full name as it appears on their birth certificate including full middle name (not just an initial) and any suffixes (Jr. etc.)
2. Each trainee’s email address (if they have one)
3. The address of the location where the majority of training will take place
4. Is that location your office, their home or some other location?

It’s usually a good idea to get all this information together before you begin updating your trainee profiles.

How To Update or Edit MSHA Trainee Profiles

1. Log in to the MSC training portal: 
2. Click on ‘User Profile Management’ in the main menu: 
3. Click ‘Search’ to view all employees in the MSC system:
    Or enter a specific employee’s last name, then hit search to only get one result:  
4. Select the box next to the trainee you would like to edit: 
5. Click the “Choose Action” field: 
6. Select “Edit” in the drop-down menu: 
7. Click on the “Perform Action” button:  It will take you to this screen: 
8. On this screen, you can add or update the following fields:

First Name

(Full) Middle Name

Last Name

Suffix (Jr., Sr., etc. only if applicable)

Name of Training Location (Home, Office, etc.)

Address

City

State

Zip

You must complete all of these fields to fully benefit from MSC’s automatic certificate features.

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We have confirmation on the updated MSHA workplace exam rule after some initial confusion around the Trump Administration’s freeze on all Obama regulations not finalized in the Federal Register. The MSHA workplace exam rule will go into effect on May 23rd as scheduled. This means your current MSHA workplace inspection form will soon be wrong.

Has anyone come up with an MSHA workplace inspection form that meets the new requirements? Yes, and you can get it for free. More on that later.

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3 Mine Safety Tips for Changing of Seasons

I think you’ll agree with me when I say:

Mine safety is a constant work in progress.

Sure everyone buys in during training and safety events, that’s good. But the true test of a safety culture is when your team needs to hit a deadline during the most dangerous month of the year. As MSHA reminds us, “October historically ranks as the deadliest month in metal and nonmetal.”

And in today’s post, I’m going to show you 3 hidden dangers that could impact your company’s safety this fall.

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Newly Proposed MSHA Workplace Exam Law is Unnecessary, Counterproductive, and Ineffective. The Good News? We Can Still Stop It.

MSHA is pushing for new, unnecessary rules again. This time they’re holding public comment meetings for a potentially disastrous MSHA workplace exam law.

The proposed rule change was immediately met with a chorus of skepticism from industry leaders when it was introduced last month.

MSC co-founder, Kim Redding, attended the first public comment meeting in Salt Lake on July 19^th with a representative of our partner organization CalCIMA. Both experts had an opportunity to ask questions in an attempt to clarify potential troubling points within the proposed rule change. Kim’s goal was to discern the agency’s goals and motives in pushing for the new MSHA workplace exam law.

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