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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Application of HAZWOPER (1910.120) to terrorist and weapons of mass destruction incident responses. - [1910.120; 1910.120(q)]
Whether the status of the LCRA Plans as "governmental plan(s)" within the meaning of section 3(32) of ERISA would be adversely affected if they were extended to cover the employees of GenTex Power Corporation.
Building security measures and how they impact the ability of employees to exit a building during an emergency. - [1910.35]
Permissibility of the welding of joists over 40-feet in length, while the hoisting line is kept in place, instead of field bolting. - [1926.757(a)(8); 1926.757(a)(8)(i); 1926.757(a)(8)(ii); 1926.757(b)(3); 1926.757(c)(2)]
Clarification of maintenance vs. construction activities; standards applicable to the removal and replacement of steel tanks and structural steel supports. - [1926.32(g); 1910.12(a); 1910.12(b); 1926.750(b)(1); 1926.750(b)(2); 1926.750(a); 1926.105; 1910.
Whether a limited partnership in which employee benefit plans invest would be deemed a party in interest with respect to the plans under section 3(14)(G) of ERISA where the plan trustee would hold more than fifty percent of the interests in the limited partnership on behalf of the plans.
Requirements for attachable scaffold ladders used in construction; toe-hold minimum distance requirement. - [1926.451(e); 1926.451(e)(2); 1926.451(e)(2)(i); 1926.451(e)(2)(ii); 1926.451(e)(2)(iii); 1926.451(e)(2)(iv); 1926.451(e)(2)(v); 1926.451(e)(2)(vi)
Permissibility of installing a trench shield so that the top is flush with the surface. - [1926.652; 1926.652(g)(1)(ii)]
Use of quick disconnect with "pull-down sleeve" to satisfy requirement of a positive means to prevent pneumatic tools from becoming accidentally disconnected. - [1926.302(b)(1)]
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