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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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This bulletin informs the mining community of a potential hazard created when the operator exits the operator's compartment of an energized MBC without activating the panic bar. It discusses ways to eliminate this hazard.
This memorandum discusses urban rapid transit in the context of FRSA violations.
This bulletin clarifies that under 30 C.F.R. 70.209, 71.209, and 90.209, mine operators must transmit respirable dust samples within 24 hours of the end of the sampling shift.
Attempts to increase awareness about the special precautions that should be observed when charging lithium batteries or equipment containing lithium batteries.
Principe, William
Recording an absence as days away when PLHCP recommends the employee return to work. - [1904.7; 1904.7(b)(3); 1904.7(b)(3)(iii); 1904.7(b)(4)(i)]
This Program Information Bulletin (PIB) clarifies the application of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations (30 C.F.R.), Section 18.35(a)(5) and Tables 8 and 9 in Appendix I of Part 18 for determining instantaneous settings of circuit breakers for sh
This Program Information Bulletin (PIB) informs mine operators and CMS&H enforcement personnel of the concerns and potential hazards associated with the use of continuous haulage systems. This bulletin provides guidance for the safe use of such systems.
Addresses the requirements for training workers involved in tree cutting on mine property. Tree cutting has associated hazards that need to be covered by training under 30 CFR Part 48 (Subpart B) or Part 46.
This program information bulletin (PIB) summarizes and clarifies the requirements in Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations (30 C.F.R.) for testing high-voltage gloves used in the surface and underground coal mines.
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