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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Provides guidance to the mining community to address hazards of using sliding table masonry saws.
Identifying the work zone when a crane works near a power line
Informs the underground coal mining community of MSHA’s intent to evaluate emergency escape capsules for their capacity to carry a disabled miner on a stretcher and be accompanied by an attendant and to determine if escapeways are properly maintained to e
Emphasizes the requirements for conveyor start-up warnings involving both manually-operated and automatically operated conveyor belt systems at surface and underground metal and nonmetal mining locations.
Summarizes and clarifies the requirements in 30 CFR for guy wires attached to poles supporting high-voltage electric power lines at both Coal and MNM mines.
PSM and large batch-mixing tanks - [1910.119]
This set of FAQs addresses the Summary of Benefits and Coverage requirements of PHS Act §2715.
Some of the guidance in FAQs Parts VIII, IX, and X has been superseded by guidance contained in FAQs Part XIV. Some of the guidance in FAQs Parts VIII, IX, X, and XIV has been superseded by guidance contained in FAQs Part XIX.
Applicability of HAZWOPER to the clearing and rerailing of train cars after derailment situations. - [1910.120; 1910.120(a)(2)(iv); 1910.120(q); 1910.120(q)(4); 1910.120(q)(6); 1910.120(q)(11)]
Certification and qualification requirements for mechanics, inspectors, and testers under the Cranes and Derricks in Construction standards. - [1926.1400; 1926.1404; 1926.1412; 1926.1427; 1926.1429]
Numerous questions related to operational aids required by various standards for cranes and derricks in construction. - [1926.1416; 1926.1416(e)(5)(i); 1926.1416(e)(5)(ii); 1926.1427; 1926.1427(a)]
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