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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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.
Search Tips
- If you are searching using an acronym, try a second search with the acronym spelled out. For example, if you are searching for guidance related to the Davis-Bacon Act, try searching "Davis-Bacon Act" as well as "DBA".
- For more specific results, use quotation marks around phrases.
- For more general results, remove quotation marks to search for each word individually. For example, minimum wage will return all documents that have either the word minimum or the word wage in the description, while “minimum wage” will limit results to those containing that phrase.
The web-tool is helps facilities understand the requirements of OSHA's PSM and EPA's RMP when they are covered by both regulations.
Guidelines to help employers improve safety at their workplaces by providing a straightforward, stepwise approach to setting up a safety and health program
Guidelines to help employers improve safety at their workplaces by providing a straightforward, stepwise approach to setting up a safety and health program in construction
Webpage to support the recommended Practices
Identifies overlaps between existing OSHA standards that may apply to an employer’s workplace and action items described in the Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs.
Summary of state-level activities related to safety and health programs
Detailed state-by-state descriptions of safety and health program activities
Used to evaluate an employer’s program and how well they have implemented it, identify remaining weaknesses, and use the results to focus on continual improvement.
Webpage to support the Safe + Sound Campaign
update to preexisting fact sheet
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