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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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.
Search Tips
- 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".
- For more specific results, use quotation marks around phrases.
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These FAQs have been updated to provide responses to the most common processing questions and submission errors. While most of these FAQs are not substantively different from the December 2009 FAQs, further clarifications and additional FAQs have been pr
Whether OSHA standards require employees to be tied off while working over water on an aerial lift. - [1926.453; 1926.453(b)(2)(v); 1926.1431(k)(10)(i)]
Enforcement Policy for Flame-Resistant Clothing in Oil and Gas Drilling, Well Servicing, and Production-Related Operations - [1910.132; 1910.132(a); 1910.132(d)]
Appropriate disinfectants for decontamination of blood or OPIM. - [1910.1030; 1910.1030(d)(4)(ii)(A)]
Restrictions on drilling within 50 feet of a hole loaded with explosives. - [1926.905; 1926.905(h); 1926.905(j); 1926.905(k)]
Whether a specific brand of plastic sheeting meets the Asbestos requirements - [1926.1101]
Whether the TIAA "Traditional Annuity" is a fully allocated contract for annual reporting purposes within the meaning of 29 C.F.R. § 2520.104-44(b)(2) and the Form 5500 Instructions.
Whether guardrails are required on a two-point adjustable scaffold while workers who are tied off are painting the undercarriage of a water storage tank. - [1926.451; 1926.451(b)(2)(ii); 1926.451(b)(3); 1926.451(g)(1)(ii)]
Permissible methods of operating trucks in reverse on construction sites. - [1926.601; 1926.601(b)(4); 1926.602(a)(9)(ii)]
Fully Planked and Decked Scaffold - [1926.451; 1926.451(b)(1)]
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