Can a production-operator require an independent contractor to conduct site-specific hazard awareness training?
A. Under 46.12, production-operators have the primary responsibility to ensure that site-specific hazard awareness training has been given. Consistent with 46.4, production-operators may provide independent contractors with site-specific hazard awareness information or training materials and arrange for the contractors to provide the training to the contractors’ employees. However, production-operators retain the primary responsibility of ensuring that everyone who comes onto mine sites has received the necessary site-specific hazard awareness training.
