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MSHA workplace exams

Record MSHA competent-person workplace examinations each shift, log adverse conditions and their correction, and keep exams on a recurring cadence.

Workplace examinations satisfy MSHA's competent-person requirement (30 CFR 56/57.18002, 77.1713): each working place is examined each shift, and any adverse conditions and their correction are recorded.

Record an exam

  1. Go to Workplace exams and use the Record an examination form.
  2. Pick the site/mine, name the working place (e.g. "Crusher area, 3 West"), choose the examiner (competent person), and set the shift (day, afternoon, or night) and exam date.
  3. Click Record exam. A clean exam shows a green clean badge.

Log and correct adverse conditions

  1. Open an exam and use Add condition to record each adverse condition with its area.
  2. Open conditions are highlighted; click Mark corrected once fixed, or Raise CAPA to drive a larger correction through a CAPA.
  3. The exam reads open until every condition is corrected, then flips to corrected.

Recurring schedules

Set up a recurring exam schedule per working place: pick the site, working place, examiner, and a cadence in days (1 = each shift), then click Add. Pause or Resume a schedule as needed.

What happens automatically

  • A scheduled exam that's due or overdue notifies the schedule's examiner — and a working place that's never been examined counts as due, so new schedules can't be quietly ignored.

Tip: a cadence of 1 day means the working place is examined every shift — the standard for active workings.

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