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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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human decompression requirements for use of pressurized tunnel boring machines
Standards for decompression chambers for use with pressurized face-tunnel boring machines. - [1926.803; 1926.803(e)(5); 1926.803(m)(3)]
Hand-held gas-powered cut-off saws. - [1926.303(d)]
use of handheld gas saws in piping work
The definitions of combustible and flammable liquids under 29 CFR 1926 and 29 CFR 1910. - [1910.106; 1910.106(a)(18); 1910.106(a)(19); 1926.155; 1926.155(c); 1926.155(h)]
Alerts the mining industry and MSHA enforcement personnel of hazards related to operation of rubber-tired and track-mounted excavators used at surface coal and metal and nonmetal mines.
Information Letter to Charles V. Stewart.
Whether, in the context of a collectively bargained multiemployer plan, plan expenses paid by a contributing employer and not reimbursed by the plan are required to be reported on the Schedule C (Service Provider Information) of the Form 5500 Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan (Form 5500).
Provides guidance to staff for adjudicating survivors' claims in certain circumstances
Provides MSHA recommendations on the use of fall protection under 30 C.F.R. §§ 77.1710(g) and (h) consisting of safety belts and lines and lifejackets when persons are working on barges at river loading facilities where coal is handled or loaded.
The purpose of this document is to announce the release and availability of an ETA quantitative evaluation report: Use of One-Stops by Social Security Disability Beneficiaries in Four States Implementing Disability Program Navigator (DPN) Initiatives.
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