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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Guarding energized electrical parts within cable trays (H.D. Roberts Jr/DEP/GIE/Harvey/26006) - [1910.269; 1910.303; 1910.269(v); 1910.269(v)(4); 1910.303(h); 1910.303(g); 1910.303(g)(2)]
Lockout/tagout requirements during maintenance of front-end loaders (Jeff Wilke/DEP/GIE/Harvey/26485) - [1910.147; 1910.147(c)(7)]
Provides information on factors that can be used to assess the risk of coal bursts occurring in underground mines, particularly those deep cover mines operating at depths exceeding 1,000 feet.
CPL 02-02-078 [CPL 02-02-078] - National - Enforcement Procedures and Scheduling for Occupational Exposure to Tuberculosis - 06/30/2015 - PDF
Facts about how a worker died from asphyxiation after entering a manhole with an uncontrolled hazardous atmosphere. Guidance is specific to preventing another fatality from the same sequence of events.
Applicability of gas detector tubes under Hazard Communication 2012 - [1910.1200(b)(6)(v); 1910.1200(c)]
Covering for Grounded Contact Conductors on Overhead Traveling Crane Systems (Patrick E. Wall/DEP/GIE/Harvey/26611) - [1910.179(g)(1)(i); 1910.179(g); 1910.304(a)(1)]
Definition of complex mixture - [1910.1200; 1910.1200(g)(4)]
Label requirements between CPSC and HCS 2012 and aerosol products - [1910.1200(b)(5)(v); 1910.1200 App C; 1910.1200 App B]
NRTL approval is not required for non-electrical vacuum cleaners used in combustible dust atmospheres (Kim G. Feddersen/DEP/GIE/Harvey/26424) - [1910.307]
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