How Empire Safety Services Delivers Annual MSHA Refresher Training Online

Problem Statement

What Empire Needed

Mine and construction safety training comes around every year, and some of it has hours that must be completed in full. Empire needed an online home for that training that miners, contractors and crews could use on their own schedule.

• Annual refresher training that miners and mine contractors can complete online each year.
• New-miner training whose required hours are completed in full, not skimmed.
• Courses for several kinds of crews: mining, construction, general industry and paving.
• Training under Empire's own name, with a record of every learner's enrollment.
• Certificates that were missing from its online training: nothing was generated automatically when a learner finished, and there was no way to check that a certificate was genuine.

Solution

An Online Academy for Miners and Crews

Empire's academy brings its MSHA and OSHA training together on its own web address.

1. 1Its own domain: Courses run at courses.empiresafetyservices.com under the Empire Safety Services brand.
2. 2Annual refresher training: The 2026 MSHA Part 46 Annual Refresher Training for Miners and Mine Contractors runs online.
3. 3New-miner training, in full: MSHA Part 46 New Miner – Part 1 is built around its required 8 hours, completed in full.
4. 4Short topic modules: Modules such as Management Responsibilities Under the Mine Act, Changes at the Mine That Could Affect a Miner's Health or Safety, and MSHA Penalty Increases.
5. 5OSHA for crews: 2026 OSHA courses for construction, general industry and paving crews.
6. 6Certificates generated automatically: Each learner gets a completion certificate the moment they finish a course, emailed to them and ready to download.
7. 7Certificates anyone can verify: Every certificate carries a unique ID, so an employer or site can confirm it's genuine.

Implementation

How Empire Runs Its Training

Empire builds and sells its courses itself, and learners pay and enroll online.

1. 1Online checkout: Nearly every enrollment is a paid course purchase, made online.
2. 2A catalog that grows each year: Empire adds new and updated courses, such as its 2026 OSHA courses, as requirements and crews change.

Results

550+ Enrollments in Safety Training

• 24 courses published: MSHA refresher and new-miner training, topic modules and OSHA courses.
• 550+ enrollments: Miners, mine contractors and crews have enrolled more than 550 times, almost all of them paid.
• Committed for two years: Empire runs its academy on a two-year FreshLearn plan.