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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Requirements of 1926.404(b)(1) application to 208-volt branch circuits; electrical subcontractor requirements under 1926.404(b)(1) to monitor other on-site subcontractors. - [1926; 1926.404; 1926.404(b)(1); 1926.404(b)(1)(i); 1926.404(b)(1)(ii); 1926.404(
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Documentation methods used to comply with the qualitative evaluation of a range of possible safety/health effects of "failure of controls" requirement of the PSM standard. - [1910.119; 1910.119(e); 1910.119(e)(3)]
Use of personal cooling fans listed for "residential use only" in an industrial setting. - [1910.303; 1910.303(b)(2); 1910.399]
Construction industry asbestos standard definition of "regulated area" and requirements for work involving materials of <1% asbestos for demolition and sheetrock projects. - [1926.1101; 1926.1101(e); 1926.1101(e)(1); 1926.1101(g); 1926.1101(g)(1)(ii); 192
Requirements for protecting against the automatic restart of low-voltage light-duty woodworking and metalworking equipment following an unscheduled electrical outage. - [1910.213; 1910.213(b)(3); 1910.303(b)(2)]
Application of OSHA construction standards to govern the use of pneumatic hand tools used in construction for cleaning concrete forms, bridge decks, and roads. - [1915; 1917; 1926; 1926.151(a)(5); 1926.152(i)(6); 1926.300; 1926.300(a); 1926.302(b); 1926.3
29 CFR 1926.350(a)(7), securing compressed gas cylinders - rational for and hazards addressed by the requirement. - [1926.350; 1926.350(a); 1926.350(a)(1); 1926.350(a)(6); 1926.350(a)(7); 1926.350(a)(9); 1926.350(a)(11); 1926.350(a)(12)]
Safety chain requirements for pile driving hammer hoses. - [1926.603; 1926.603(a)(9); 1926.603(a)(10)]
Application of OSHA construction standards that govern the loading of materials onto scissor lifts and the restraining of those stored materials. - [1926.450; 1926.451(a)(6); 1926.454(a); 1926.454(b); 1926.451(a)(6); 1926.250; 1926.451(h); 1926.451(f); 19
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