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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Security door lock system presently installed in the Research and Development building. - [1910.36; 1910.36(d)(1)]
Annual inspection of the fixed extinguishing system. - [1910.160]
Employees of a ski resort who, in addition to their maintenance and repair work, engage in the erection of new structures, buildings, and places of entertainment are not within the section 13(a)(3) exemption in any workweek that some construction work is performed and entitled to minimum wage and overtime compensation of not less than one and one-half times their regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of 40 in the workweek.
Evaluation of the operating, Servicing, and Safety Instructions developed by Black Brothers Company, Inc. - [1910.212]
National Policy on Guarding Roving Frames. - [1910.212; 1910.262]
Height of enclosures for cantilever type personnel hoists. - [1926.552]
Ladders and Scaffolding. - [1926.450]
Automatic sprinkler systems installed to meet a particular OSHA standard. - [1910.159]
To promote continuation of special emphasis on program activities aimed at increasing apprenticeship opportunities for women
Seismic explorations as it pertains to detonation. - [1926.900; 1926.905]
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