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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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CPL 02-01-014 [CPL 2-1.14B] - National - 29 CFR 1910.184(e)(4), Alloy Steel Chain Slings Proof Testing - 10/01/1981
Temporary lighting strings used on construction sites. - [1926.405(a)(2)(ii)(J)]
Compliance determination based on worst day noise exposure. - [1910.95]
Handtools must be in a safe condition. - [1910.242(a); 1910.243(a)(4); 1910.243(d)(4); 1910.244(a)(2)(vii)]
Letter concerning OSHA Instruction STD 1-11.7. - [1910.178]
Blasting and Use of Explosives Relative. - [1926.905(h); 1926.905(k)]
City or town in section 13(b)(9) of the FLSA refers to populate areas and would not encompass a non-urban land area such as a township, or town (minor civil divisions) not necessarily thickly-settle centers of population such as cities, boroughs, towns and villages
Portable electric lighting used in moist and/or other similar hazardous locations. - [1926.401]
Powered air-purifying helmets are personal protective equipment, not engineering controls. - [1910.1025(e)]
Contributions made for the establishment and maintenance of IRAs on behalf of employees would not affect the regular rate of pay as it depends on the purpose of the plan and not on the amount of contributions an employer may make on an employee's behalf.
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