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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Whether certain skylights meet the cover criteria of 1926 Subpart M. - [1926.501(b)(4); 1926.501(b)(4)(i); 1926.502(i); 1926.502(i)(2); 1926.754(e)(3)(i); 1926.754(e)(3)(iv); 1926 Subpart M]
Whether it is permissible for an employee to remain in a trench box when materials are being lowered into it by a backhoe. - [1926.651(e)]
Are podium ladders covered under 29 CFR 1926 Subpart X or Subpart L? - [1926.450(a); 1926.450(b); 1926.452(w); 1926 Subpart L; 1926 Subpart X]
Guidance addressing the circumstances under which supplemental health insurance coverage satisfies the requirements for excepted benefits under sections 732(c)(3) and 733(c)(4) of ERISA.
Clarification on the requirement for a written opinion from an examining physician.
Clarification of HAZWOPER training requirements as they apply to an employee of the town of Windsor, VT. - [1910.120; 1910.120(a)(1); 1910.120(e); 1910.120(e)(1); 1910.120(e)(2); 1910.120(e)(3); 1910.120(e)(4); 1910.120(e)(9); 1910.120(q); 1910.120(q)(6)(
Whether OSHA requirements prohibit working from a portable stepladder and, if not, whether fall protection is required. 29 CFR 1926.1053(b). - [1926; 1926.500(a)(2)(vii); 1926; 1926.1053(b); 1926.1053(b)(3); 1926.1053(b)(4); 1926.1053(b)(13); 1926 Subpart
Whether under 1926.550, a crane may be left unattended with its spreader bar suspended; where in 1926.550 of Subpart N, other than in 1926.550(g), is the use of tag lines referenced; how are "cable lugs" used under 1926.351(b)(3). - [1926.351(b); 1926.351
Whether the "Clear Gear Lanyard Elevator" conforms to OSHA construction standards. - [1926.502; 1926.502(d)]
FAQs on the LMRDA union officer election requirements.
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