In 1999, MSHA proposed strengthening standards on breathing devices, including requiring mines to stock "caches'' of extra rescue devices and conduct more frequent hands-on training in how to use them. But by September 2001, the Bush administration withdrew the draft rule, citing "resource constraints and changing safety and health regulatory priorities."Read the whole article here.
David Lauriski, the former Bush mine safety official who put the rule aside, is having second thoughts. "In retrospect, maybe we ought to have had requirements for more caches'' of the breathing devices, he said Tuesday.
MSHA now apparently agrees.
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