Section 690-218.1 - Supplemental examination(a) Duties.--Except for certified persons conducting examinations required by this subsection, within three hours before anyone enters an area in which a preshift examination has not been made for that shift, a certified person shall examine the area for hazardous conditions, determine whether the air is traveling in its proper direction and at its normal volume and test for methane and oxygen deficiency.(b) Certification.--At each working place examined, the person making the supplemental examination shall certify, by initials, date and the time, that the examination was made. In areas required to be examined outby a working section, the certified person shall certify, by initials, date and the time, at enough locations to show that the entire area has been examined.(c) Recordkeeping.--A record of the results of each examination, including a record of hazardous conditions and their locations found by the examiner during each examination and of the results and locations of air and methane measurements, shall be made on the surface before any persons, other than certified persons conducting examinations, enter the working area. The results of methane tests shall be recorded as the percentage of methane measured by the examiner. The record shall be made by the certified person who made the examination. If the examiner has called out his examination from underground and will not complete surface record books personally, the examiner shall enter a record of examination in a record book kept in a fireproof vault underground and sign the same. When a station is located in a mine, it shall be the duty of a mine examiner to also sign a report entered in the record book in the mine office on the surface. A record shall also be made by a certified person of the action taken to correct hazardous conditions found during the examination. All examinations and corrective action records shall be countersigned by the mine foreman or equivalent mine official by the end of the mine foreman's or equivalent mine official's next regularly scheduled working shift. The records required by this section shall be made in a secure book that is not susceptible to alteration or electronically in a computer system so as to be secure and not susceptible to alteration.2008, July 7, P.L. 654, No. 55, §218.1, effective in 180 days [ 1/5/2009].