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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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- 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".
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This flow chart explains when you need to notify your employer about COVID-19-related issues, when your employer must notify you about COVID-19 exposures in the workplace, and when your employer must remove you from the workplace.
This document provides sample questions that may be used by employers to screen their employees for COVID-19 symptoms or develop screening protocols.
In response to OSHA's COVID-19 Healthcare ETS, this document helps employers notify their employees about potential COVID-19 exposure in the workplace.
In response to OSHA's COVID-19 Healthcare ETS, employers may use this worksite checklist to implement worker protections from COVID-19.
A sample presentation developed by OSHA that employers or other instructors may customize and use to train their employees according to the requirements of OSHA’s COVID-19 ETS, 29 CFR 1910.504.
This flow chart explains the steps that employers must take when notified an employee is COVID-19 positive, told by a licensed healthcare provider that they are suspected to have COVID-19 or is experiencing certain COVID-19 symptoms, or has been in close contact with a COVID-19 positive person in the workplace.
This document, in Spanish, provides sample questions that may be used by employers to screen their employees for COVID-19 symptoms or develop screening protocols.
In response to OSHA’s COVID-19 Healthcare ETS, employers should consider using the following questions as part of your discussions to help ensure that needed information is shared and that your plan is sufficiently protective.
In response to OSHA's COVID-19 Healthcare ETS, this document explains employer requirements and provides guidance for recording COVID-19 cases on the COVID -19 log.
This fact sheet highlights, in Spanish, new requirements in the COVID-19 Healthcare ETS to prevent worker exposure to the coronavirus and ways it protects workers from retaliation for exercising their rights under the ETS.
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