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.
The Department and its agencies issue guidance to provide clarifying information and technical assistance to the public on existing statutory and regulatory rights and obligations, inform the regulated community about best practices, and provide other useful information. The contents of these documents do not have the force and effect of law and are not meant to bind the public in any way, except as authorized by law or incorporated into a contract, cooperative agreement, or grant.
Members of the public may petition the Department to modify or withdraw specific guidance documents. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.
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Communication Towers
OSHA provided clarification on the requirements for the use of powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRS) when performing asbestos removeal.
Provides detailed guidance on the steps that employers are required to take to protect employees in construction, and it is intended to help small business employers comply with the standard. Revised to include delayed compliance date
Provides guidance on the steps that employers are required to take to protect employees in general industry and maritime, and it is intended to help small business employers comply with the standard.
election guidance for officials
Pressure Vessels
Plague
General Safety and Health References
Update to the Mobile App developed in 2011 to co-brand and align with NIOSH's recently published guidance. Transferred ownership from DOL to CDC for future upates.
Oil and Gas Well Drilling, Servicing and Storage - Storage Tanks
Walking-Working Surfaces and Personal Protective Equipment (Fall Protection Systems) - [1910.21(b); 1910.28; 1910.28(b)(9); 1910.28(b)(10)(ii); 1910.29(h); 1910.140(c); 1910.140(d)]
Bloodborne Pathogens Post-Exposure Evaluation and Follow-up for Emergency Response Employees - [1910.1030(f)(3)]
Occupational Epidemiology
OSHA provided clarification on release of source patient results to emergency response employees involved in an exposure incident.
Non-Ionizing Radiation
OSHA provided clarificatin on on labeling of secondary containers.
Labeling of Secondary Containers - [1910.1200(f)(6)(ii)]
Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
Laser Hazards
Printing Industry
This set of FAQs addresses the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and the 21st Century Cures Act.
Metalworking Fluids
This webpage clarifies infectious disease protections associated with the universal precautions of OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens standard, CDC's standard precautions and the transmission-based precautions used by healthcare practitioners for infection contr
Dentistry
OSHA provided clarification on whetther annual blood work is required to determine physical fitness for employees who wear a self-contained breathing apparatus infrequently.
Mandatory annual blood work requirements in OSHA's Respiratory Protection and Ethylene Oxide standards - [1910.134(e); 1910.134(e)(3); 1910.134(e)(6)(i)(B); 1910.1047(i); 1910.1047(i)(2)(i)(B); 1910.1047(i)(2)(i)(D); 1910.1047(i)(2)(ii)(A)]
Insert Earphones for Audiometric Testing - [1910.95; 1910.95 App D]
OSHA provided clarification on the use of insert earphones when conducting audiometric testing.
This fact sheet identifies spray painting activities that pose potential hazards for workers, as well as provides precautions (such as work procedures, controls, facility design, protective clothing, and equipment) that must be taken to protect workers f
Lumber and Building Material Dealers Industry
Machine Guarding
Medical Access Order
This resource is consistent with the Bureau's mission to make working women aware of their job rights. As a practical matter, the resource can only be downloaded as a free resource from Amazon and does not appear, nor is it referenced, on the Women's Bureau's website.
Medical Screening and Surveillance
Mercury
Provides information on hazards, controls and preventive measures for the home healthcare industry
FAQs provide information about requirements under WHCRA for group health plans.
Electrical
Best work practices for communication towers work drafted by FCC, OSHA, and stakeholders
Clarification of Subpart AA provisions applicable to attics, basements, and crawl spaces in residential construction work
Describes lessons learned and best practices in the electric power industry
ways to keep employes safe who climb communication towers to perform construction and maintenance activities
keeping workers safe in confined spaces
new language
provides precautions employers must take to safeguard workers spray painting in confined spaces
An interpretation to a question about guarding edges at a marine terminal
This guidance discusses potential hazards and solutions transporting equipment and workers to and from well sites.
Guarding of edges in marine terminals - [1917.112]
Clarifies how employers will be issued sponsorship questionnaires and the employer response time.
Set of FAQs regarding prevailing wage determinations
Hand and Power Tools
OSHA provided clarification on computer based training for asbestos awareness.
Computer-based training (CBT) for asbestos awareness with improved designs for learning effectiveness but shorter than the 2 hours required by the Asbestos Standard - [1926.1101(k)(9)(vi)]
Qualitative and quantitative fit tests versus assigned protection factors - [1910.134(d); 1910.134(f)]
General Industry
OSHA provided clarification on Assigned Protection Factors.
Green Tobacco Sickness
Whether a sub-group of employer members of a trade association could constitute a “group or association of employers” within the meaning of section 3(5) of ERISA capable of sponsoring a multiple employer plan, and whether a group health plan proposed by the sub-group would constitute a multiple employer welfare arrangement within the meaning of section 3(40) of ERISA.
Archive of Employment First Community of Practice Webinars
Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution Industry
OSHA provided clarification on labeling individual tubes of components used in a mixture.
The HAZWOPER S&H Topics page provides employers and workers in covered industries and operations with information about preparing for and responding to hazardous substance releases, threats of such releases, and other emergency response activities to whic
Separate SDSs and labels for dual components - [1910.1200; 1910.1200(f)(1); 1910.1200(g)(1); 1910.1200(g)(2)]
Labeling outer containers of chemical cleaning products while in storage. - [1910.1200(b)(4); 1910.1200(f)(1); 1910.1200(f)(6)]
OSHA provided clarification on labeling requirements on containers of cleaning products.
Direct-Reading Instruments
Dermal Exposure
Dry Cleaning
Diesel Exhaust
Safety and Health Topics page describing OSHA requirements for hazardous waste operations and emergency response, including for environmental releases of hazardous substances and cleanup operations at contaminated sites.
Clarification of 1904.31 regarding who is responsible for recording injuries and illnesses when supervision is shared by a prime contractor and subcontractors.
Clarification of 1904.31 regarding who is responsible for recording injuries and illnesses when supervision is shared by a prime contractor and subcontractors. - [1904.31]
Radiofrequency and Microwave Radiation
A recent outbreak of Seoul virus in rat breeding facilities in the Midwest is discussed in a fact box-type addition to the existing Hantavirus Safety and Health Topics page.
Ricin
Robotics
Reproductive Hazards
OSHA provided clarification of the BBP standard's requirement for Hepatitis B vaccination for employees providing first aid.
OSHA provided clarification on the use of dectless welding booths to filter hexavalent chromium-contaminated air into technical college classrooms or workplaces.
Bloodborne Pathogens Training and Hepatitis B Vaccination - [1910.1030(f)(2); 1910.1030(g)(2)]
Use of ductless welding booths to filter hexavalent chromium-contaminated air. - [1910.1026; 1910.1026(f)(1)(i)]
Sampling and Analysis
Sawmills
Sealant, Waterproofing and Restoration Industry
Smallpox
This document does not cover the entire Process Safety Management (PSM) standard, but only focuses on aspects of the standard particularly relevant to storage facilities. For a full compliance guide to PSM, please refer to OSHA 3132 or the full text of th
Duplicate of 1440
This guidance document does not cover the entire Process Safety Management standard (PSM), but only focuses on aspects of the standard that may be particularly helpful for small businesses. For a full compliance guide to PSM, please refer to OSHA's Proces
Solvents
Spray Operations
Investigation of the October 19, 2016, Collapse of Two Scaffold Platforms during Climbing in Miami, Florida
FAQs to provide answers about the PAID program
OSHA provided clarification on HAZWOPER training for EMS personnel.
Training requirements for emergency response medical service - [1910.120; 1910.120(q)(6); 1910.120(q)(6)(i)]
Customized Employment solutions Video for people with disabilities.
Textiles
Toluene
OSHA provided clarification on labeling of small containers.
OSHA provided clarification on Hazard Communication Standard's (HCS 2012) June 1, 2016 effective date.
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