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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Fact sheet focusing on rigger qualifications in Subpart CC
Fact sheet focusing on signal person qualifications in Subpart CC
Numerous questions on lockout/tagout under 1910.147 and Subpart S. - [1910.147]
Colonna, Kenneth
Determining work-relatedness for injury that occurred in company parking lot - [1904.5(b)(2)]
Applicability of 29 CFR 1910 standards to the oil and gas well drilling and servicing industry. - [1910.5; 1910.5(c)]
Clarifies the effect of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: a Legacy for Users Technical Corrections Act of 2008 (TCA), P.L. 110-244, on section 13(b)(1) of the FLSA. The overtime pay exemption under section 13(b)(1) does not apply to a driver, driver's helper, loader, or mechanic in any workweek in which their work affects the safe, interstate operation of certain motor vehicles weighing 10,000 pounds or less (hereinafter referred to as "small vehicles").
This set of FAQs addresses grandfathered health plans.
Training requirements under the HAZWOPER standard. - [1910.120]
To inform the mining industry of possible solutions to heating and damage problems incurred by trailing cables layered on equipment cable reels of permissible mining machinery.
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