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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 for work on dichlorobenzidine (DCP) contaminated equipment. - [1910.1003(c)(5)(i)]
Representative sampling provisions of the Methylene Chloride standard. - [1910.1052(d)(1)(ii)]
Request a reconsideration of Opinion 97-14A, which concluded that the health care program offered by the Federation of American Consumers and Travelers to its members is a multiple employer welfare arrangement within the meaning of ERISA section 3(40)(A) and, therefore, to the extent provided in ERISA section 514(b)(6)(A), is subject to applicable state insurance law.
Medical evaluation requirements under the respiratory protection standard. - [1910.134(c); 1910.134(e)]
Bloodborne Pathogens standard: Group purchasing agreements in healthcare facilities; engineering controls. - [1910.1030]
Powered platforms: Suspension height limits for transportable outriggers. - [1910.66(f)(3)(ii); 1910.66(e)(2)]
Applicable standards for Below-the-Hook Lifting Devices and slings. - [1910.184]
Whether PTE 92-6 covers: (1) a plan sale to multiple relatives of the insured who are the sole beneficiaries under the contract; (2) a plan sale of a life insurance contract covering the life of a participant and his or her spouse; and (3) the sale by a plan of a partial interest in a life insurance contract where, following such sale, both the interest retained by the plan and the interest sold will qualify as a life insurance contracts under applicable state law.
Information Letter to Carol I. Buckmann.
Whether initial capital contributions from employee benefit plan investors transferred for the purpose of venture capital investments will be treated as plan assets at any time after transfer on the initial valuation date within the meaning of DOL Regulation 29 C.F.R. § 2510.3-101.
All exterior openings/doors of temporary labor housing must be screened. - [1910.142(b)(8)]
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