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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 CSHO resource for technical infromation about fall protection equipment and use. Publically available for transparency.
This NIOSH/OSHA interim guidance provides employers and workers, including outdoor workers who may be exposed to mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus as well as workers are or may become pregnant or whose sexual partners are or may become pregnant, wit
This NIOSH/OSHA interim guidance provides employers and workers, including outdoor workers who may be exposed to mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus as well as workers are or may become pregnant or whose sexual partners are or may become pregnant, wit
The Protecting Agricultural Workers from Tractor Hazards Fact Sheet is a companion guidance product document that was developed to expand upon the tractor hazards noted in the Tractor Hazard Quick Card guidance product. Designed for the agriculture employ
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Regarding setting time restrictions by crane operator testing organizations for crane-certification test. - [1926.1427(b); 1926.1418; 1926.1417]
Provides an exemption from sections 6 and 7 under the FLSA (section 13(a)(1)) for any employee employed by any retail or service establishment (except an establishment or employee engaged in laundering, cleaning, or repairing clothing or fabrics or an establishment engaged in the operation of a hospital, institution, or school described in section 3(s)(5)), if more than 50 percent of such establishment's annual dollar volume (ADV) of sales of goods or services is made within the state in which the establishment is located, and such establishment is not in an enterprise described in section 3(s).
This set of FAQs addresses coverage of preventive services, rescissions, out-of-network emergency services, coverage for individuals participating in approved clinical trials, limitations on cost-sharing under the Affordable Care Act, the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and the Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act.
OSHA provided clarification of shipyard competent person and the testing of atmopheres where there is no permissible exposure limit
Evaluation of chemical exposures in shipyard operations by competent persons - [1915.3(c); 1915.4(o); 1915.7]
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