351.127 Employment of certified emergency medical technicians or mine
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emergency technicians required at coal mine.
(1)Certified emergency medical technicians or mine emergency technicians shall be
employed at every licensed coal mine whose employees are actively engaged in the
extraction, production, or preparation of coal. Persons employed as mine
emergency technicians shall be trained in a manner established in an administrative
regulation promulgated by the department. Persons seeking certification as a mine
emergency medical technician or mine emergency technician shall be subject to the
following additional requirements:
(a)All persons seeking certification as a mine emergency technician shall
demonstrate drug- and alcohol-free status in accordance with KRS 351.182
and 351.183;
(b)The drug and alcohol testing for those seeking certification as mine
emergency technicians shall be administered prior to the examination for the
certification, in accordance with KRS 351.182 and 351.183; and
(c)Certification as a mine emergency technician shall not be issued until the
results of the drug and alcohol testing have been obtained. Notification shall
be given to the person in accordance with KRS 351.184.
(2)These emergency medical technicians or mine emergency technicians shall be
employed in the following manner:
(a)Except as otherwise provided in paragraph
(b)of this subsection, for every
shift engaged in the production of coal at a surface or underground coal
mining operation, there shall be:
1. One
(1)emergency medical or mine emergency technician employed on
every shift with ten
(10)or fewer miners employed on the shift; and
2. Two
(2)emergency medical or mine emergency technicians employed
on every shift with more than ten
(10)but fewer than fifty-one
miners employed on the shift; and
(b)For underground mines only, on every shift with more than fifty
(50)miners
working on the shift, there shall be one
(1)additional emergency medical
technician or mine emergency technician for each additional fifty
(50)miners,
or any portion thereof, engaged in the extraction, production, or preparation of
coal, and at least one
(1)emergency medical or mine emergency technician
shall be underground at all times while miners are working in the mines
regardless of how many miners are working on the shift.
(3)If these emergency medical technicians or mine emergency technicians are also
employed in other capacities at the coal mine, they shall be available for quick
response to emergencies and shall have available to them at all times the equipment
necessary to respond to emergencies, as prescribed by the commissioner.
(4)If the licensee selects existing employees to be trained as emergency medical
technicians or mine emergency technicians, the employees selected shall be paid
their regular wages during training.
(5)Certified emergency medical technicians and mine emergency technicians shall
receive annual retraining in the manner established in an administrative regulation promulgated by the department, during which they shall receive their regular wages.