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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Authorized employees must have the opportunity to verify energy isolation in group lockout/tagout - [1910.269(d); 1910.147(c)(2); 1910.147(d)]
Tagout devices must be non-reusable and self-locking. - [1910.269(d)(3)(ii)(D); 1910.269(d)(6)(iv)(B)]
Clarification of requirements for construction scaffold erection/dismantling; safe means of access; blocks for two-point suspension scaffolds. - [1926.451; 1926.451(a)(3); 1926.451(a)(4); 1926.451(b)(1); 1926.451(b)(1)(i); 1926.451(c)(1)(iii); 1926.451(d)
Bridge construction will not be exempted from the sheer connector requirements of 1926.754(c)(1). - [1926.754; 1926.754(c)(1)]
Decision to release the new compliance directive for the steel erection standard in draft form. - [1926.750; 1926.751; 1926.752; 1926.753; 1926.754; 1926.755; 1926.756; 1926.757; 1926.758; 1926.759; 1926.760; 1926.761]
Application of ERISA Secs. 408(b)(2) and 408(b)(6) to the provision of trustee services by Laurel Trust Company to two defined benefit plans which it sponsors and the payment by the plans of trustee fees in connection with those services.
CPL 02-02-070 [CPL 2-2.70] - National - Inspection Procedures for Occupational Exposure to Methylene Chloride Final Rule 29 CFR Part 1910.1052, 29 CFR Part 1915.1052 and 29 CFR Part 1926.1152. - 12/14/2001 - PDF
Application of ERISA Sec. 406(b) to certain transactions involving the provision of investment advice and discretionary services with regard to asset allocation for participants in participant-directed defined contribution plans.
Determining the controlling employer with the role of providing general supervisory authority when using multi-employer two-step analysis citation policy. - [1926.16]
Installation of the HBS Composite Action System's continous plate prior to erection of beam poses tripping hazard. - [1926.754(c)(1)(i)]
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