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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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- If you are searching using an acronym, try a second search with the acronym spelled out. For example, if you are searching for guidance related to the Davis-Bacon Act, try searching "Davis-Bacon Act" as well as "DBA".
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Clarification regarding the policy for the use of seat belts on powered industrial trucks in general industry.
Interpretation of the First Aid standard. - [1910.151; 1910.151(b)]
Recording of atmospheric test results. - [1910.146]
Request for guidance concerning the determination of venture capital operating company status under 29 C.F.R. §2510.3-101.
Infeasibility of 6 foot free fall limit. - [1926.502]
An employer and its employees who agree that a payment for the first 15 minutes of the 30 minute lunch period does not make the remaining 15 minutes a paid break constituting compensable hours of work.
Requirement to obtain a healthcare professional's written opinion in the "pre-exposure vaccination setting." - [1910.1030]
The FLSA does not require an employer to provide its employees with rest periods or breaks. If the employer decides to permit short breaks; however, the time is compensable hous worked.
A possible conflict between exposure record retention. - [1910.146; 1910.1020]
Response regarding the application of the OSHA Process Safety Management Standard to utility LPG distribution facilities. - [1910.119]
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