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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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".
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Clarifies that the age of a son or daughter at the onset of a disability is not relevant in determining a parent's entitlement to FMLA leave, and provides guidance on the impact of the ADAAA on a parent's ability to take FMLA leave to care for an adult child.
This is a OSHA and MSHA collaboration that discusses the hazards associated with exposures to particulate matter from diesel exhaust. The alert also provides safet guards employers can take to protect their workers.
quick card focusing on electrcial safety in construction
Provides information to employers and workers of the hazards involved in using stone-cutting machines and describes methods to eliminate or reduce the risk of injury when operating stone-cutting machines.
Subpart CC Fact sheet- wire rope inspaection
Pictogram requirements for product labels under the revised Hazard Communication standard. - [1910.1200]
Guidance on Handling Cases Developed Pursuant to the FRC Enforcement Policy Memorandum. - [1910.132; 1910.132(a)]
Provides additional clarification concerning the application of the MSPA, FLSA, and OSH Act FSS to activities in connection with the raking, gathering, baling, and loading of pine straw gathered from pine trees grown for commercial timber.
Whether an LED type device ca be used for the isolation and deenergization verification requirements of 1910.147 and 1910.333. - [1910.147]
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