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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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This bulletin alerts the mining industry of the advisability of conducting electromagnetic testing of wire ropes to determine if unsafe conditions are developing.
MSHA is issuing this Program Information Bulletin (PIB) to re-emphasize to the metal and nonmetal mining industry the requirements for escapeways to the surface and for refuge areas.
Maintenance of medical evaluation and fit test records as required by the Respiratory Protection Standard. - [1910.134; 1910.134(m); 1910.1020]
Disposal of blood and other potentially infectious materials (OPIM). - [1910.1030; 1910.1030(d)(4)(iii)(B)(1)(iii); 1910.1030(d)(4)(iii)(C)]
Explains the requirements of a mine rescue contest for the purposes of 30 C.F.R. § 49.60, a Mine Emergency Response Development exercise.
Requirements for eyewash and shower facilities. - [1910.151; 1910.151(c)]
The Department is suspending the H-2A Final Rule published on December 18, 2008 and in effect as of January 17, 2009. The Suspension will be effective on June 29, 2009.
Informs the mining industry that using inert gas will significantly reduce the likelihood of methane ignitions at surface highwall auger operations.
Determining when a mixture would exceed the threshold quantity in a covered process. - [1910.119; 1910.119(a)(1)(ii); 1910.119(b)]
Application of OSHA PEL for nitric oxide as 8-hr TWA to pregnant employees. - [1910.1000; 1910.1200; 1910.1200(e); 1910.1200(f); 1910.1200(g); 1910.1200(h)]
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