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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Respiratory protection, medical surveillance, and training requirements under HAZWOPER. - [1910.134(e); 1910.134(f); 1910.134; 1910.120; 1910.120(q)(6)(i); 1910.120(q)(6)(ii); 1910.120(q)(8)]
Labeling requirements for packages used to ship blood or OPIM. - [1910.1030(g)(1)(i); 1910.1030(d)(2)(xiii)]
To identify the factors that will be considered by the Deputy Assistant Secretary when deciding whether to grant separate facility exemptions/ waivers from the requirements of Executive Order 11246 and the affirmative action provisions of the Vietnam Era
Needle destruction device use as an engineering control for the Bloodbore Pathogens standard. - [1910.1030(d)(2)(i); 1910.1030(c)(1)(iv); 1910.1030(b)]
Vapor areas must be limited; concentrations must remain below 25% of the substances' lower flammable limit. - [1910.124; 1910.124(b)(1); 1910.124(b)(4)(ii); 1910.123(d)]
There are no specific OSHA standards or requirements applicable to overhead doors. - [1910.34; 1910.36; 1910.37; 1910; 1926; 1910.12]
Application of the "governmental plan" definition in section 3(32) of ERISA to the Port Authority PBA Welfare Fund for purposes of the coverage exclusion in section 4(b)(1) of ERISA.
Whether Mentees at a summer job training program for local youths who spend program time as interns in workshops and perform entry-level administrative or clerical tasks for local businesses are employees under the FLSA.
Respiratory protection requirements for hospital staff decontaminating chemically contaminated patients. - [1910.120; 1910.134; 1910.134(c); 1910.132; 1910.132(d); 1910.132(d)(2); 1910.120(q); 1910.120(q)(3); 1910.120(q)(3)(iv)]
Color is not the only prescribed factor for the standardization of LOTO devices. - [1910.147; 1910.147(c)(5)(ii)(B)]
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