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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Employer's obligation to assure the accuracy of the sharps injury log. - [1910.1030; 1910.1030(c)(1)(iv); 1910.1030(f)(3); 1910.1030(h)(5)]
CPL 02-00-138 [CPL 02-00-138] - National - Audit and Verification Program of Occupational Injury and Illness Records - 01/12/2006 - PDF
29 CFR 1926.651(i)(1); excavation operations. - [1926.651(i)(1)]
Requirement for a safety latch on a sling hook depends on the activity for which the sling is being used. - [1910.181(a)(29); 1910.181(j)(2); 1910.184(c)(6); 1917.45; 1918.66; 1918.81; 1926.753]
OSHA's machine guarding requirements provide no exemption from guarding based on shaft size or speed. - [1910.219(c)(2)(i); 1910.219(c)(5)]
Whether a lease by a company (LLC) 49% owned by an IRA to a company (S) which is a disqualified person with respect to that IRA is a prohibited transaction where the manager of the LLC is an officer of S. Whether 29 CFR 2509.75-2 makes the transaction an indirect prohibited transaction and whether it makes the transaction a violation of the Internal Revenue Code's exclusive benefit rule.
Whether the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Association Benefits Consortium, Inc. Health Plan is an "employee welfare benefit plan" within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA that is maintained by a "group or association of employers" within the meaning of section 3(5) of ERISA.
Whether the Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association Benefit Consortium, Inc. Health Plan is an "employee welfare benefit plan" within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA that is maintained by a "group or association of employers" within the meaning of section 3(5) of ERISA.
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