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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Investigation of the November 2, 2013 collapse of concrete beams at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport runway project
Scaffolding: Narrow Frame Scaffolds Fact Sheet
worker safety fact sheet
Aircraft Flight Attendants
Establishes uniform criteria for the training and retraining of MSHA personnel assigned to conduct special investigations pursuant to Sections 105(c), 108, and 110 of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977.
Extension of Effective Date for NRTL requirements for Prox Alarms and Insulating Links
Temporary Enforcement Policy for Proximity Alarm and Insulating Link Use with Cranes and Derricks in Construction - [1926.1401; 1926.1407; 1926.1408; 1926.1409; 1926.1410]
Provides mine operators guidance in implementing: (1) post-accident wireless two-way communication between underground and surface personnel and (2) electronic tracking systems, both of which are required by the MINER Act. The two-way communication systems currently include infrastructure underground to provide untethered communications with miners.
Facts about how a worker died when a material hoist failed. Guidance is specific to preventing another fatality from the same sequence of events.
(30 C.F.R. Sections 56/57.15005)
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