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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 April 18, 2013 Partial Collapse of a Masonry Wall during construction of the Goodwill Retail Store in Hendersonville, TN
Behrnes, Brandi
Determine Whether the Employer is Required to Record a Work-related Injury Sustained by an Employee which was Treated by a Reduction Procedure Performed on Her Dislocated Ring Finger - [1904.7(b)]
Establishes a uniform method to assign identification numbers to mobile or portable coal auger and highwall mining operations. These types of operations meet the definition of a production operator and will be assigned a seven-digit mine identification (I
The purpose of this PPL is to provide guidance to the mining industry and enforcement personnel on the purpose of slippage switches required on belt conveyors under 30 C.F.R. § 75.1102.
Requirements for Guardrail systems - [1910.23(e)(3); 1910.23(e)(3)(v); 1910.29(b)(5)]
Clarifies 30 C.F.R. § 75.523-2, De-energization of self-propelled electric face equipment; performance requirements.
Explains the MSHA policy concerning the requirements of Section 75.1725(c), Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), in order to prevent injuries while machinery repairs or maintenance are performed. This policy letter addresses the meaning of
Clarifies the requirements concerning tests for methane under 30 C.F.R. § 75.362(d)(1), (d)(2), and (d)(3). This PPL sets forth MSHA's policy for determining the manner and means of testing for methane at the working face including during roof bolting.
Whether documents involving participation in the Teamsters Joint Council No. 73 Pension Plan by “officers, business agents, trustees, or clerical employees” of the Joint Council and local unions affiliated with the Joint Council constitute “collective bargaining agreements” for purposes of making an election that the plan be treated as a multiemployer plan pursuant to ERISA section 3(37)(G)(i)(II).
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