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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard. - [1926.59 ; 1910.1200(h)]
Policy change regarding the scope of coverage of the field sanitation standard. - [1928.110]
Hospital technicians required to attend HCS training and a clarification of coverage of pharmaceuticals under the HCS. - [1910.1200(h)]
Application of the training requirements under 1910.120(e) to underwater divers. - [1910.120(e)]
Whether labels and material safety data sheets (MSDS) must be provided to downstream manufacturers and processors for orlon or orlon blend yarns. - [1910.1200]
Operations regulated by 40 CFR 264 and 265 must comply with 1910.120 training. - [1910.120]
Citations for Violations of Standards which are Under Revision - [1903.14 ]
Enforcement of OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard in the construction industry. - [1910.1200]
Whether the FEA/GEA Dental Health Care Plan is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of Title I of ERISA.
Whether a certain sale of securities from the General Electric Pension Trust to an underwriting syndicate of which Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated was a member was a prohibited transaction within the meaning of section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
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