CODE OF VIRGINIA

CERTIFIED EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PROVIDERS (§ 45.1-161.199)

At least one person who is a working coal miner and who holds a valid
certificate as an emergency medical services provider issued by the Commissioner
of the Department of Health shall be located so as to be available for duty at
each mine when miners are working at that mine. Such emergency medical services
providers shall be utilized in sufficient numbers to assure that workers in any
mine location can be reached by them within such reasonable time as is
determined by the Chief. Emergency medical services providers shall have
available to them at all times the necessary equipment, as specified by the
Chief, for prompt response to emergencies. In the event that at any time there
is at any mine an insufficient number of qualified miners volunteering to serve
as emergency medical services providers as provided for in this section, the
operator may elect to utilize the services of first aid trainees, in such
numbers as the Chief determines to be appropriate. Telephone or equivalent
facilities shall be installed to provide two-way voice communication between the
emergency medical services providers and medical personnel outside the mine.

HISTORY: 1977, c. 679, § 45.1-101.1; 1978, c. 94; 1994, c. 28; 2015, cc. 502,
503.