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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Storage of flammable liquids and the applicability to the Process Safety Management standard. - [1910.119]
WHD will not assert an employment relationship between a for-profit hospice and individuals who volunteer their servies to perform activities of a charitable nature, such as running errands, sitting with patients so that a family may have a break and going to funerals. However, individuals many not donate their services to hospices to do activities such as general o9ffice or administrative work that are not charitable in nature.
Interpretation of OSHA requirements for personal protective equipment to be used during marine oil spill emergency response operations. - [1910.120; 1910.132]
Whether a plan administrator may refund, without violating the anti-inurement rule in ERISA section 403(c)(1), amounts that the plan administrator has determined were wrongly assessed due to computer programming errors.
Concerns with the OSHA June 30 memorandum concerning the application of 29 CFR 1926.652 to house foundation/basement excavations. - [1926.652]
The Ciba Self-Medication, Inc. (CSM) facility and the application of OSHA's PSM of Highly Hazardous Chemicals Standard. - [1910.119]
A letter of compliance from OSHA regarding "HAZCOM" data sheets. - [1926.59 ]
Shower requirements for the Lead in Construction Standard. - [1910.106; 1926.62 ]
An interpretation relative to ingressing and egressing an elevated manlift at an elevated level. - [1926.556]
Statement of compliance from OSHA for a pole-mounted powder actuated tool. - [1926.302]
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