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.
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Construction Industry Digest Revised
General Industry Digest
Workers' Rights: Nail Salon Worker Rights Flyer
Laundering responsibilities for fire retarding (FR) clothing provided to employees - [1926.95(a)]
Employees are protected from retaliation for reporting alleged violations of environmental laws and regulations related to the clean-up of uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites as well as accidents, spills, nd other emergency releases of polluta
Employees are protected from retaliation for reporting alleged violations of environmental laws and regulations related to the disposal of solid and hazardous waste.
Employees are protected from retaliation for reporting alleged violations of environmental laws and regulations related to industrial chemicals.
Laundering responsibilities for fire retarding (FR) clothing provided to employees.
Written for workers in grocery store deli departments, provides information on how to safely use and clean food slicers and grinders.
Written for workers in grocery store deli departments, provides information on how to safely use and clean food slicers and grinders.
Facts about how a worker died when they engulfed in suger after falling into a hopper. Guidance is specific to preventing another fatality from the same sequence of events.
Facts about how 2 workers died when they contacted an energized irrigation system. Guidance is specific to preventing another fatality from the same sequence of events.
This set of FAQs addresses limitations on cost sharing and provider non-discrimination.
Requirements for labeling of food additives and intermediate chemicals under the revised Hazard Communication Standard (HCS 2012) - [1910.1200(b)(5)]
Describes the hazards often found in nail salons and provides employers and workers with recommendation to prevent injuries and illnesses.
Technical information document on Occupational Asthma to provide CSHO's with the basic knowledge about asthma induced in the workplace.
Allowable load rating of the suspension wire ropes with wire clip terminations.
Facts about how a worker died when a parking garage under construction collapsed. The employer did not properly follow the designers plans. Guidance is specific to preventing another fatality from the same sequence of events.
This set of FAQs addresses coverage of preventive services.
OSHA CSHO resource for technical infromation about the ethanol processing industry. Publically available for transparency.
Investigation of the January 19, 2015 Collapse of Bridge onto Southbound Interstate I-75 During Demolition in Cincinnati, OH
worker safety
Prevailing Wage Resource Book
Clarification of personal ladder boom system requirements.
Clarification of personal ladder boom system requirements - [1926.1053; 1926.500(b)]
This memorandum provides standardized subject lines for emails transmitting investigative information from DWPP to partner agencies to promote consistent communication and interaction with federal agencies.
Informs community of the 14(c) on-line calculators, regional seminars, PowerPoint presenation, EO 13658 and WIOA
Steel Erection
Intentionally blank pictograms not allowed in HCS 2012 - [1910.1200(f)]
Evaluating Hazardous Levels of Accumulation Depth for Combustible Dusts
This memorandum serves to clarify the investigative standards for OSHA's whistleblower investigations.
This set of FAQs addresses the wellness program requirements.
General requirements that applies to workers who drive heavy trucks and other commercial motor vehicles (CMV) on construction sites.
General requirements that applies to workers who drive heavy trucks and other commercial motor vehicles CMV on construction sites - [1926.20(b)(4)]
Respiratory Protection
Barnard, Rick
Clarification regarding the applicability of the recording criteria for an injury occurring while commuting to from work - [1904.5(b)]
Rationale for and hazards of hoisting compressed gas cylinders - [1926.350(a)(2); 1926.350(a)(4)]
Rationale for and hazards of hoisting compressed gas cylindersGas Welding
Austin, Eric
Clarification of the reporting requirements contained in 1904.39, regarding specific types of eye and tooth injuries. - [1904.39]
Discusses guidelines and procedures WHD will follow to determine when and whether to complete and certify Supplement B of an I-918 Petition for U Nonimmigrant and T Nonimmigrant Visa Status. Additional three crimes added to the five qualifying criminal activities for which WHD will certify Supplement B of an I-918 Petition for U Nonimmigrant visa.
This lists questions and answers about the WHD U and T visa certification process.
Computer Workstations
Employees are protected from retaliation for reporting alleged violations regarding air emissions from area, stationary, and mobile sources.
Employees are protected from retaliation for reporting alleged violations regarding the discharge of pollutants from a point source into navigable waters, unless a permit was obtained under its provision.
Employees are protected from retaliation for reporting alleged violations regarding all waters actually and potentially designed for drinking use, whether from above ground or underground sources.
Investigation of the November 13 and 14, 2014 Collapses of Two Pedestrian Bridges under Construction at Wake Technical Community College Campus, Raleigh, NC
provides guidance as to when the Confined Spaces in Construction standard applies to residential construction work performed in pits
provides guidance as to when the Confined Spaces in Construction standard applies to work performed in sewers
Confined Spaces in Residential Construction
Confined Spaces in Construction: Crawl Spaces and Attics Fact Sheet
Construction
Respirator Change Schedules
This set of FAQs addresses the Summary of Benefits and Coverage requirements of PHS Act §2715.
Discusses nicotine poisoning, called Green Tobacco Sickness, to people who work in tobacco fields. Provides recommendations for employers to protect their workers.
Hazard communication requirements for commercial ink cartridges - [1910.1200(b)(6)(v); 1910.1200(f); 1910.1200(g); 1910.1200(h)]
Medical training for health-care professionals who evaluate miners for determining entitlement to benefits.
Requirement for Unknown Acute Toxicity Statement - [1910.1200]
QLFT fit testing procedures - [1910.134; 1910.134 App A]
Information about joint Interim Final Rule (IFR) and Departments' intention to promulgate this rule by April 30, 2015.
Medical training for health-care professionals who evaluate miners for determining entitlement to benefits.
Provides guidance to staff when requests are made to add or remove a provider from the DCMWC list of providers.
Provides links and references to OSHA and other resource information that may assist employers and workers in the Meatpacking Industry recognize and control hazards. Highlights OSHA Standards information.
Provides basic information about your potential options if your health coverage no longer pays benefits.
Investigation of the December 30, 2014 incident at Ford Kansas City Assembly Plant, Claycomo, MO
The fact sheet provides an overview of a direct final rule that makes a technical amendment to the Participant-level Fee Disclosure Regulation.
Questions to help individual consumers select an investment adviser
Detailed Guidance for OSHA's Injury and Illness Recordkeeping Rule
Discusses exposure to silica as a health hazard to workers involved in manufacturing, finishing and installing natural and manufactured stone countertop products, both in fabrication shops and during in-home finishing/installation and describes dust contr
Electric Power Standards
Electric Power Standards
Electric Power Standards
Provides guidance in Spanish on protecting workers in non-healthcare/non-laboratory settings from exposure to Ebola virus, and from harmful levels of chemicals used for cleaning and disinfection.
This quick card focuses on protecting workers at risk of cold stress caused by cold temperatures and increased wind speed (wind chill), which causes heat to leave the body more quickly. Anyone working in the cold may be at risk, e.g., workers in freezers,
Requirements for Rails and Steps for Access to Semi-Trailers (Walking and working surfaces, motor vehicles, stairs) - [1910.24]
Veterinary clinic kneeling squatting - [OSH Act of 1970 - Section 5(a)(1)]
This set of FAQs addresses excepted benefits.
To provide updated completion rates and to remind the staff of OA and State Apprenticeship Agencies (SAA), Registered program sponsors, and other Registered Apprenticeship Partners of the process for calculating completion rates for Registered Apprenticeship programs required by Title 29 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), part 29, Labor Standards for Registration of Apprenticeship Programs.
Clarification of the applicability of the recording criteria for cases occurring while traveling to from an airport for work-related travel. - [1904.5(b)]
Clarification regarding the applicability of the recording criteria involving restricted work. - [1904.7]
Wasser, Neil
Williams, Fran
Describes enforcement strategies for CSHOs inspecting oil field operations
Definition of secure for handling of compressed gases in containers - [1910.101(b)]
HBV and needlesticks in the textile industry - [1910.1030(b)]
Severe Violators
Asbestos medical surveillance requirements for class III work performed less than 30 days per year - [1926.1101(h); 1926.1101(m)]
Clarification regarding the jurisdiction of the applicability of the recording requirements in state territorial waters. - [1904.3]
HCS classification and labeling requirements for products containing crystalline silica - [1910.1200; 1910.1200(b)(2); 1910.1200(c)]
Practical accommodation for the labeling of small packages under the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) - [1910.1200; 1910.1200(f)(1)]
Use of multiple countries' information on labels of hazardous chemicals - [1910.1200; 1910.1200(f)(1); 1910.1200(f)(2); 1910.1200(g)(1)]
Pertgen, John
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