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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Remind mine operators and other persons that the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act), as amended, protects miners against discrimination for exercising statutory rights.
Informs the mining community of the right to make a hazardous condition complaint under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act), and the necessary procedure and contact information.
Individuals working in the consumer product industry are protected from retaliation for reporting potential consumer product safety violations to their employers or to the government (in Spanish).
Remind mine operators, miners’ representatives and MSHA enforcement personnel that § 103(a) of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act (Mine Act or Act) prohibits giving advance notice of inspections conducted by MSHA inspectors.
Provide information to clarify MSHA policy relative to Program Policy Letter (PPL) No. P10-V-1, and regulations pertaining to Self-Contained Self-Rescuers under Title 30 Code of Federal Regulation (30 C.F.R.) § 75.1714-8.
Clarification of the terms street clothing and work clothing as used in the asbestos standard for construction work. - [1926.1101; 1926.1101(f); 1926.1101(f)(2); 1926.1101(i)(1); 1926.1101(j)(1); 1926.1101(j)(2)]
Emphasizes an operator’s obligation under 30 C.F.R. § 75.324 to take specified steps to assure the health and safety of miners whenever making an intentional change to a ventilation system.
Provide information to the mining community on requirements to maintain methane monitors in permissible and proper operating condition to ensure that the monitors provide miners with a warning when excessive quantities of methane are liberated in the work
Emphasize requirements to ensure that the working face and working places of underground coal mines are ventilated by a sufficient quantity of air so as to continuously dilute, render harmless, and carry away flammable, explosive, noxious, and harmful gas
Provide important information regarding the required maintenance of face ventilation control devices.
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