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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Foulke, Edwin Jr.
Immunizations or inoculations (except tetanus) are recordable when given in response to a workplace injury or illness. - [1904; 1904.7(b)(5)(ii)(B)]
Chamberlain, Dave
Participation by professional sports teams in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses; definition of independent contractor versus employee. - [1904; 1904.31]
Request for guidance concerning section V(h) of PTE 84-14 which permits certain transactions between a party in interest with respect to an employee benefit plan and an investment fund in which the plan has an interest and which is managed by a QPAM, provided that the other conditions of the exemption are satisfied.
CPL 02-01-038 [CPL 2-1.38] - National - Enforcement of the Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution Standard - 06/18/2003 - PDF
Response to Exelon Generation's concerns regarding draft Instruction CPL 2-1.18A, "Enforcement of the Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution Standard." - [1910.269; 1910.269(d); 1910.269(d)(8)(v); 1910.147]
Response to Edison Electric Institute's concerns regarding draft Instruction CPL 2-1.18A, "Enforcement of the Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution Standard." - [1910.269; 1910.269(d); 1910.269(d)(8)(v); 1910.146; 1910.147]
Employer's responsibility to protect employees from workplace hazards through appropriate hazard control methods. - [1910.106; 1910.106(b)(6); 1910.1000]
Potential exposure to contaminated sharps in the solid waste industry. - [1910.1030; 1910.1030(c)(2)(i)]
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