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For workplace safety and health, please call 800-321-6742; for mine safety and health, please call 800-746-1553; for Job Corps, please call 800-733-5627 and for Wage and Hour, please call 1-866-487-9243 (1 866-4-US-WAGE).  This website is currently not being updated due to the suspension of Federal government services. The last update to the site was 10/1/2025.  Updates to the site will start again when the Federal government resumes operations.

State of New Jersey Program Summary

Mr. Robert Asaro-Angelo, Commissioner 
Krishna Jagannathan, Chief, Mine Safety Training Program

New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development 
1 John Fitch Plaza, P.O. Box 953 
Trenton, NJ 08625-0953

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development coordinates mine safety and health training through the Division of Public Safety and Occupational Safety and Health. Various media are utilized in the training presentations, such as video, overhead transparencies, handouts, demonstration kits as well as lectures. The training program includes training to contractors and customers, including truck drivers who enter onto mine property, to make them aware of hazards at mines and procedures to follow while on a mine property in order to decrease the mine accident and mining fatality rate in the New Jersey mining industry.

The Mine Safety Training Program conducts classes in:

  • 30 CFR parts 46 Annual Refresher Training;
  • 30 CFR parts 46 New Miner Training;
  • Accident Scene/CPR;
  • Electrical Hazards;
  • Powered Haulage Accident Prevention;
  • Conveyors and Crushers;
  • Explosives Regulations;
  • Silica and other Airborne Contaminants;
  • Noise and Eye Protection; and
  • Metal and Nonmetal Dredges.

For more program information contact Krishna Jagannathan at 609-633-2587/email: krishna.jagannathan@dol.nj.gov or John Dupnock at 609-847-5188/email: 
john.dupnock@dol.nj.gov.