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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Clarification on number of qualified employees required when working with electrical components. - [1910.269; 1910.269(l)(1); 1910.269(l)(2)]
Use of gloves by masons. - [1926.95; 1926.95(a)]
Describes an accident involving an amputation that occurred when a power press unintentionally activated twice.
Applicability of the PSM standard's mechanical intergrity requirements to refinery structures. - [1910.119; 1910.119(d)(3); 1910.119(e); 1910.119(j); 1910.119(l)]
Definition of a single use and negative pressure respirator - [1910.134]
The fact sheet provides an overview of the final rule implementing the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.
Clarification of the term abnormal condition as used in the Recordkeeping standard - [1904.4(a); 1904.46]
OSHA requirements for mercury response and clean-up personnel in a number of different site-specific scenarios. - [1910.120; 1910.1000]
Using a stepladder as a non-self-supporting ladder. - [1926.1053; 1926.1053(a)(2); 1926.1053(b)(4)]
Bloodborne Pathogens Standard, OSHA's Personal Protective Equipment Standard - [1910.132]
OSHA requirement for sharps containers to be closable - [1910.1030(d)(4)(iii)(A)(l)(i)]
Exposure to radon when working in trenches or excavations. - [1910.1096; 1910.1096(c)(1); 1926.53]
Describes final rule requiring refuge alternatives in underground coal mines and the training of miners in their use in a Q&A format.
Provides awareness about fatalities that have occurred with skid-steer loaders due to bypassed safety devices.
Medical exams and blood testing for zinc protoporphyrin (ZPP) under OSHA's Lead Standards. - [1910.1025; 1910.1025(j)(1)(i)]
Whether target-date or lifecycle mutual funds constitute "plan assets" of investing employee benefit plans or whether the investment advisers to such mutual funds are fiduciaries to the investing plans under ERISA.
Consuming food and/or beverages in the same work area where known hazardous chemicals are used. - [1910.141; 1910.141(a)(2); 19.141(g)(2)]
Compliance with 1926.1101 when drilling through asbestos-containing floor tile/mastic. - [1926.1101; 1926.1101(g); 1926.1101(g)(5); 1926.1101(g)(9)]
Visual demonstration of the proper way to donn and doff a respirator and properly conduct a User Seal Check
Simplified explanation of the differences between these devices
Lewis, Ron
Whether manual joint manipulation is considered first aid or medical treatment for recordkeeping purposes - [1904.7(b)(5); 1904.7(b)(7); 1904.7(b)(4)(iv)]
Clarification on equivalent test nebulizer for qualitative fit tests. - [1910.134]
Confidentiality of employee post-exposure evaluations as it pertains to the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard; use of portable fans in phlebotomy collection rooms. - [1910.1030; 1910.1030(f)(3); 1910.303; 1910.303(b)(2)]
OSHA's position on mandatory flu shots for employees.
To improve program effectiveness by facilitating the prompt delivery of benefits to injured workers
Painting or placement of adhesive stickers on protective helmet shell. - [1910.132; 1910.132(a); 1910.135 ]
Whether an IRA owner's granting to a broker of a security interest in assets held in his non-IRA accounts to cover potential indebtedness of an IRA established with the broker would result in prohibited transactions under Code section 4975.
The use of clevis pins and cotterpins to attach slings and hooks; use of latches on sling hooks. - [1910.184(e)(2)(i); 1910.184(e)(2)(ii); 1910.184(f)(6)]
Protective system requirements for excavations that will not be entered by employees. - [1926.652; 1926.652(a)(1); 1926.652(b); 1926.652(c)]
Hazards associated with aluminum grinding. - [1915.4(r); 1915.504(b)]
Clarification of preexisting injury/illness and recordkeeping - [1904.5(a); 1904.5(b)(3); 1904.5(b)(4)(iv)]
Clarification on prescription medications and recordkeeping requirements - [1904.7(b)(5)(ii)(A)]
describes this alternative procedure of compliance
Provides information to employers on the need for roll-over protection on roadway compactors and rollers.
Whether an estate plan would give rise to a prohibited transaction under Code section 4975 if it is designed to use permissible minimum distributions from an IRA to fund a Trust, which is not a plan subject to fiduciary obligations under Title I of ERISA or the Code but is a disqualified person with respect to the IRA under Code section 4975, and where the beneficiary of the Trust is the IRA owner's grandson and Trustee of the Trust is the IRA owner's son who is entitled under applicable state law to receive statutory trustee commissions from the Trust.
OSHA's position on complying with an updated national consensus standard. - [1910.261]
Commissions paid to automobile detailers and painters by a dealership.
Requirements for rated load tests for new or altered cranes. - [1910.179; 1910.179(b); 1910.179(k)]
Amending OSHA's penalty adjustment factors. - [1903]
Guidance clarifying that travel and visa expenses of H-2B workers under the FLSA are primarily for the benefit of the employer and must be paid by the employer.
OSHA's position on the requirements for TB screening for employees who have a documented allergy to PPD. - [OSH Act of 1970 - Section 5(a)(1)]
Whether use of high-visibility warning garments by construction workers in highway work zones is required. - [1926.200; 1926.200(g)(2); 1926.201; 1926.201(a)]
Provides information to employers and employees to assist in recognizing the safety and health hazards, both radiation and non-radiation, associated with the operation of special purpose particle accelerator facilities.
Ballas, Linda
Clarification on administering oxygen as a precautionary measure and as medical treatment - [1904.4(a)]
Provides information for stand-up forklift operators to avoid being crushed by backing into storage racks.
Guidance on transition relief from new requirements for IRC § 403(b) plans for Form 5500 annual reporting of information on certain individual annuity contracts and mutual fund custodial accounts of current and former employees that were entered into befo
Difference between voluntary and non-voluntary use of a respirator. - [1910.134]
Spray finishing operations citation guidance. - [1910.94; 1910.94(c); 1910.107; 1910.107(a)(2); 1910.107(c)]
Clarification on number of employees required for glovebag removal operations. - [1926.1101; 1926.1101(g)(5)(ii)(B)(9)]
OSHA has no authority to ban use of hexavalent chromium. - [1910.1026; 1915.1026; 1926.1126]
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina issued a preliminary injunction against the Department's Final Suspension of the December 2008 Final H-2A Rule. As a result of this court action, and unless and until additional court action ta
Berk, Joseph
Health impacts from shared office equipment. - [1904.7; 1904.11]
Comprehensive building/facility/vessel surveys for asbestos. - [1910.1001; 1926.1101; 1915.1001]
Disposal of blood and other potentially infectious materials (OPIM). - [1910.1030; 1910.1030(d)(4)(iii)(B)(1)(iii); 1910.1030(d)(4)(iii)(C)]
Maintenance of medical evaluation and fit test records as required by the Respiratory Protection Standard. - [1910.134; 1910.134(m); 1910.1020]
Requirements for eyewash and shower facilities. - [1910.151; 1910.151(c)]
Explains the requirements of a mine rescue contest for the purposes of 30 C.F.R. § 49.60, a Mine Emergency Response Development exercise.
The Department is suspending the H-2A Final Rule published on December 18, 2008 and in effect as of January 17, 2009. The Suspension will be effective on June 29, 2009.
Informs the mining industry that using inert gas will significantly reduce the likelihood of methane ignitions at surface highwall auger operations.
Determining when a mixture would exceed the threshold quantity in a covered process. - [1910.119; 1910.119(a)(1)(ii); 1910.119(b)]
Application of OSHA PEL for nitric oxide as 8-hr TWA to pregnant employees. - [1910.1000; 1910.1200; 1910.1200(e); 1910.1200(f); 1910.1200(g); 1910.1200(h)]
Applicability of the PRCS standard to aircraft maintenance activities. - [1910.146; 1910.146(c)(4); 1910.146(c)(9); 1910.146(d); 1910.146(d)(5)]
Clarification of specialty footwear and employer requirements to provide at no cost to its employees. - [1910.132; 1910.132(h)(2)]
Clarification on when administering oxygen would result in a recordable injury - [1904.4(a); 1904.5(b)(5)(ii)(B)]
Ballas, Linda
Geld, Michael
Determining if a fatality would be considered work-related - [1904.5(b)(1)]
Provides information for workers on protecting themsevles from influenza.
Provides information for workers on protecting themsevles from influenza.
Explains the differences between respirators and surgical masks in regards to protecting workers
Explains final rule addressing the utilization of belt air and composition and fire retardant properties of belt materials in Underground coal mining in a Q&A format.
Applicability of 29 CFR 1926 to oil and gas well driling and servicing operations. - [OSH Act of 1970 - Section 5(a)(1)]
Employers using digital radiography must continue to comply with the OSHA standard on ionizing radiation. - [1910.1096]
Clarification of the term self-inflicted as used in the Recordkeeping standard - [1904.5(b)(2); 1904.7(b)(5); 1904.7(b)(7)]
Management of Organizational Change - [1910.119]
Counting restricted days for a part-time employee - [1904.7(b)(3)(iv); 1904.7(b)(4)(xi)]
Determining work-relatedness for injuries in the home when telecommuting - [1904.4(b)(7); 1904.30(b)(3); 1904.46(3)]
Gnadt, Jay
Pinkerton, C.D.
LMRDA compliance information sheet that provides union members with overview of statutes and their rights and responsibilities.
Consider revising the annual training requirements of the general industry Asbestos standard - [1910.1001]
Payment for static dissipative safety-toe footwear for working with flammable liquids and products. - [1910.132; 1910.132(h)(2)]
Removing ladders during trenching activities; compliance with 29 CFR 1926.651(c)(2). - [1926.651(c)(2)]
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