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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Fall protection components from different manufacturers may be used together provided connecting parts are sized compatibly. - [1926.502; 1926.502(d); 1926.502(d)(5); 1926.502(d)(6); 1926.502(e)(7); 1926.502(e)(8)]
Whether a domestic relations order that changes a prior assignment of benefits to an alternate payee to reduce the amount assigned to the alternate payee may be a qualified domestic relations order within the meaning of section 206(d)(3) of ERISA.
Process operators' training requirements to take limited action in stopping an emergency release; role in an incident command system. - [1910.120; 1910.120(q)(3)(i); 1910.120(q)(6)(ii); 1910.120(q)(6)(v)]
Minimum exposure for inclusion in the hearing conservation program (HCP); removal criteria. - [1910.95; 1910.95(c)(1); 1910.95(m)]
Minimum toe clearance for workers using manhole rungs during construction work. - [1926.27(c)(4); 1926.1053(a)(13)]
Employees with occasional exposure to noise levels in excess of 85 dBA TWA must be included in the company's hearing conservation program. - [1910.95]
Application of the hazard communication standard to latex paints containing less than 6% crystalline silica. - [1910.1200]
Use of laser guarding systems with hydraulic press brakes. - [1910.212; 1910.212(a)(1); 1910.212(a)(3)]
Clarification of "authorized" and "affected" employees and proper energy control procedures. - [1910.147(b); 1910.147(c)(4); 1910.147(c)(7)(i); 1910.147(d); 1910.147(d)(4)(i); 1910.147(f)(3)(ii); 1910.147(f)(3)]
Current studies on the use of engineering controls to decrease asbestos exposures to mechanics performing brake and clutch repair. - [1910.1001; 1910.1001(j)(4); 1910.1001(f)(3)]
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