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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Investigation of the September 27, 2017, Gin Pole Collapse at an Antenna Tower in Miami Gardens, Florida
Shipbuilding and Ship Repair
This memorandum clarifies the procedures that whistleblower investigators must follow after receiving notification that a complainant intends to exercise their right to "kick-out" their complaint to Federal District Court, as afforded under several whistleblower statutes enforced by OSHA.
Recording Injuries and Illnesses of Temporary Workers versus HIPAA Requirements - [1904.31]
Binner, Tom & Kriz, Dawn
Translation of document addressing the standards associated with radiant energy and the protection of workers
Document dealing with the safety of workers aboard deck barges (e.g., slips, trips, and falls, etc.)
Fact Sheet addressing an incident that occurred aboard a spud barge.
This memorandum clarifies the procedures for accepting and recording whistleblower complaints initially filed with an agency other than OSHA, including the date to be entered into the Information Management Information System (IMIS).
Guidance regarding WHD's non-enforcement policy with respect to service advisors. WHD will not assert that service advisors who are employed by a nonmanufacturing establishment primarily engaged in the business of selling automobiles, trucks, or farm implements to ultimate purchasers do not meet the overtime pay exemption under Section 13(b)(10)(A).
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