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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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DOL's policy on protecting employees/applicants from discrimination and harassment based on disability
DOL's policy on protecting DOL employees/applicants from discrimination and harassment based on disability
Answers to common questions about jurisdiction
NRTL requirements for shielding gas regulators. - [1910 Subpart S; 1910.303(a); 1910.399; 1910 Subpart Q; 1910.251; 1910.253]
Numerous questions related to OSHA's notice to terminate the rulemaking to amend the explosives standard. - [1910.119; 1910.109]
Numerous questions related to training requirements under 1910.269. - [1910.269]
Clarification on the use of safety monitors as a method of fall protection on a low-slope roof
Clarification on the use of safety monitors as a method of fall protection on a low-slope roof. - [1926.501; 1926.501(b)(10); 1926.502; 1926.502(h); 1926.453; 1926.453(b)(2)(v)]
Sets forth MSHA's enforcement policy, and provides guidance to the mining community on the monthly examination and testing requirements of electrical equipment under 30 C.F.R. §§ 77.502 and 77.502-2 involving emergency stop devices or pull cord switches and their respective activating or mechanical arms for conveyor belts.
This memorandum establishes new streamlined procedures for documenting the outcome of certain whistleblower complaints filed under any of the 21 statutes will require only an entry into the IMIS database in lieu of a Report of Investigation.
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