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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Responsible party for MSDSs and labelling of imported chemicals. - [1910.1200(g)(2)(xii); 1910.1200(g)(5); 1910.1200(f)(1)(iii); 1910.1200(f)(11)]
Video Display Terminals (VDTs) and Radiation. - [1910.1096]
Use of tagout device attachments not meeting 50-pound unlocking strength requirements. - [1910.269(d)(3)(ii)(D); 1910.269(d)(6)(iv)(B)]
Fall protection requirements for fixed and portable ladders in construction. - [1926.1053(a)(19); 1926.1053(a)(18); 1926.502(d)(16)(iii); 1926.1050(b)]
Fall protection required for employees riding in aerial lifts. - [1926.453]
Regarding the fiduciary responsibility provisions of ERISA. Specifically, whether an assertion made by Fund trustees that they may only be removed (other than by death or resignation) "for cause" would establish lifetime terms of appointment inconsistent with the fiduciary responsibility requirements of ERISA and Advisory Opinion Opinion Letter 85-41A.
Grounding requirements for equipment connected by cord and plug. - [1910.304(f)(5)(v); 1910.304(a)(3)]
Use of Monitored Power Systems for lockout/tagout. - [1910.147(b); 1910.147(c)(1); 1910.147(a)(2)(ii)]
CPL 02-00-124 [CPL 2-0.124] - National - Multi-Employer Citation Policy. - 12/10/1999 - PDF
Whether the payment of certain performance-based compensation to Mount Lucas Management Corporation by employee benefit plan clients would violate section 406(b) of ERISA or section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
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