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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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OSHA policy regarding violent employee behavior.
Plastic containers for Class IB flammable liquids. - [1910.106]
Applicability of Bloodborne Pathogens Standard to emergency responders, decontamination, housekeeping, and good samaritan acts. - [1910.1030]
Whether a state administrative action denying a certificate of compliance with state-mandated workers' compensation requirements with respect to an employer provided workers' compensation benefits offered through a plan that may be covered by ERISA would be preempted by ERISA for purposes of section 514(a).
If the car is a facility that is customarily furnished for an employee's benefit, then the reasonable cost of the car may be deducted from the wages of an employee.
Whether the provision of MNC Financial, Inc’s, a parent corporation to the Maryland National Bank (the Bank) annual audited and quarterly unaudited financial statements and the Bank's Call Report to the Sheet Metal Workers’ Local Union No. 100 Washington, DC Area Health Benefit Plan would comply with the requirements of section III(H)(3) of PTE 81-8 (46 FR 7511, January 23, 1981) as amended (50 FR 14043, April 9, 1985).
Background of standards. - [1910.120; 1910.1030]
The OSHA Hazard Communication Standard and how it applies in various industries. - [1910.1200]
Compliance policy on unguarded rotary knives used in poultry processing industries. - [1910.212]
Requirements for the bloodborne pathogens standard, 1910.1030. - [1910.1030]
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