Guidance Search
The Department of Labor provides this guidance search tool as a single, searchable location where users may search for guidance issued by any of the Department’s agencies, including significant guidance documents under Executive Order 12866. Individual guidance documents are maintained on the various agency websites, and if you know what agency you are looking for, you may also find guidance by navigating directly to that agency’s website. The Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register, which are not maintained by the Department, also include some of the Department’s interpretations of law and similar material.
OMB’s Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance Practices establishes policies and procedures for the development, issuance, and use of significant guidance documents by Executive Branch departments, including requiring that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor. Petitions should identify the specific guidance document by name and include your reason(s) for the request.
On January 20, 2021, President Biden issued the “Executive Order on Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation.” In response, the Department issued a final rule January 27, 2021 to rescind its August 28, 2020 rule on guidance documents.
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Interpretation for doorways not complying with exit route requirements. - [1910.36; 1910.36(g)(1)]
Cut and cover tunneling operations. - [1926.800]
Standards applying to aerosol container charging plants. - [1910.110(d)(13)(i); 1910.110(d)(13)(iii)]
Whether buttons on the two-handed controls of your molding presses requires a surrounding guard. - [1910.217(b)]
Handrail and railing specifications for general industry. - [1910.23(e)]
No employment relationship was established between the hospital and the student in training, as on the job training is combined with classroom training. Also, the receipt of $8,000 in financial support by the student would not be considered to establish an employment relationship.
Requirement to pin or lock digester valves. - [1910.261(g)(12)(iv)]
If the work performed by the patient is of consequential economic benefit to the instituation and would normally be done by someone else, then there is an employment relationship. However, if the patient is undergoing evaluation or training, they would not be an employee for the first three months of such activities as long as they don't spend more than one hour a day or five hours a week in such activities.
Protective clothing required to prevent skin contact with polyvinyl chloride residue on vessel walls. - [1910.1017(h)(1)(ii)]
The basic rates under Section 7(g)(3) were authorized at one plant, but could not be authorized for seven other plants.
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