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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Storage requirements for discarded filters/pads and for water-filled metal containers in 1910.107. - [1910.107; 1910.107(b)(5)(ii)]
Whether section 514(a) of ERISA preempts a Kentucky state law that requires an employer to obtain written consent before withholding amounts from an employee's wages for contribution to an ERISA-covered group health or other welfare benefit plan.
Whether the material storage requirements in 1926.250(a)(1), (b)(6) and (b)(7) apply to stored and stacked brick and masonry blocks that remain completely secured as shipped (interlocked, banded, shrink-wrapped, or similarly bound for shipment) - [1926.25
Whether shutting off the truck and disabling controls is a sufficient means of demonstrating that no employee would be endangered under 1910.269(p)(1)(iii). - [1910.269; 1910.269(p)(1)(iii)]
Guidance on the responsibilities of named fiduciaries and trustees of ERISA-covered plans for the collection of delinquent employer and employee contributions.
Clarification of NIOSH's obligation under OSHA to receive and maintain employee exposure and medical records. - [1910.1020; 1910.1020(h); 1910.1020(h)(1); 1910.1020(h)(3); 1910.1029(e); 1910.1029(j); 1910.1029(m)(3); 1910.1029(m)(4)]
PSM coverage of utility systems; whether 1910.269 preempts the PSM standard for power generation facilities that serve covered processes. - [1910.119; 1910.119(a)(1)(i); 1910.119(a)(1)(ii); 1910.119(b); 1910.119(j)(1); 1910.180(d); 1910.269; 1910.269(a)(1
Use of paper towels instead of electric blow dryers in public restrooms. - [1910.141; 1910.141(d)(2)(iv)]
Describes how workers exposed to latex containing product can become sensitize to latex.
Use of a PLC system as an alternative measure which provides effective protection for minor servicing activities. - [1910.147; 1910.147(a)(2)(ii); 1910.147(b)]
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