The safety and occupational health standards in mining in general have been set based on the ministerial decree of the minister of minerals and energy no. 555k/26/mpe/1995. however artisanal mining in geumpang has not yet fully implemented the standard. it results many problems, for example mining accidents. the purpose of this research is to identify the applicability of safety and occupational health based on ministerial decree of the minister of mineral and energy no. 555. k/26/urm.pe/1995. area of research is on artisanal mines geumpang, pidie, km 12. the mining method used is gophering method. the application of safety and occupational health (soh), good mining practice, management system of mining safety (msms) and management system of safety and occupational health (mssho) which are not fully applied result accidents in the mining location. the results of this research conduded that the worker only apply approximately 5% of the overall rules writen in the ministerial decree of