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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.
Petitions to Modify or Withdraw a DOL guidance document may also be submitted by mail at the address below. Petitions should identify the specific guidance document by name and include your reason(s) for requesting withdrawal or modification.
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Frequently Asked Questions to provide general information concerning the application of USERRA to employers that pay pension benefits as a percentage of total earnings of employees.
Ammonia Refrigeration
Autobody Repair and Refinishing
Maritime Industry
Provides guidance for workers and employers on preventing exposure to influenza viruses that may cause pandemics.
General Information about the Wirtz Labor Library, including operating hours, collection features and information and contact information
Information for the public interested in visiting the library
Landscape and Horticultural Services
Tree Care Industry
Memo informs State Plans and Regional Administrators of a new policy effective immediately for permanently redistributing 23(g) funds that are repeatedly lapsed or deobligated by State Plans.
Informed community of on-line application system and notifies of updates to certificate application processing and contact information for the certification division staff.
This letter provides guidance on an eligible employee, as FMLA leave, attending a committee on special education meeting to discuss a child’s Individualized Education Program.
Application of 7(k) to public agency employees working for both the police and fire departments
Sheriff deputies may be volunteers and still work for 3rd parties as security
This presents an example safety and health program for a hypothetical small business. It illustartes simple approaches that a small business can use to begin implementing the core elements of a safety and health program.
Ethylene Oxide
Isocyanates
Mold Safety and Health Topics Page
FAQs on topics related to Indirect Costs
A Guide to Indirect Cost Rate Determination
A Guide for Indirect Rate Determination for Non-Profit Organizations and Commercial Organizations
Every job seeker with a disability is faced with the same decision: "Should I or shouldn't I disclose my disability?" When you leave school and enter the workforce, many aspects of your life change. Among the many differences, is the requirement to share
Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), in collaboration with the National Collaborative on Workforce Disability for Youth, has identified Guideposts for Success for youth with disabilities to enter the workforce.
A supplement to Safety and Health Management Best Practices, this document will target small and medium businesses. It will explain what metrics are, why leading metrics are important, and how to set up a metrics program.
Heat: Working in Outdoor and Indoor Heat Environments (updated 2019, August).
Overhead Power Lines: Working Safely Near Overhead Power Lines ◦English (PDF). OSHA Publication 3979, (2019, August).
Overhead Power Lines: Working Safely Near Overhead Power Lines ◦Spanish (PDF). OSHA Publication 3980, (2019, August).
FAQ for how to register, log in, and access company accounts in the VETS-4212 Reporting Application
FAQ about VETS-4212 batch file configuration and uploading.
Instructions for Electronic Submission to 2019 VETS-4212 Reports
Instructions for Electionic Submission of Multiple State Consolidated-Hiring Locations for 2019
VETS-4212 program overview.
Parker, Alan
Determining whether the injury would apply to the work-related exception personal task and outside the assigned working hours - [1904.5(b)(2)(v)]
Maintenance work in a manufacturing area after silica-generating tasks have been stopped - [1910.1053; 1910.1053(d)(1); 1910.1053(e)(4); 1910.1053(g)(1)]
Types of construction work excluded from the Silica standard - [1926.1153; 1926.1153(a); 1926.1153(c)(1); 1926.1153(d); 1926.1153(e); 1926.1153(f)(1); 1926.1153(h); 1926.1153(i)]
This document represents OSHA’s summary of the scope of coverage and protected activity and the procedures for investigating and adjudicating retaliation complaints under the Seaman’s Protection Act.
Provides transition relief with respect to the requirement under the CSEC Act to provide a list of contributing employers for the 2017 annual reporting civil penalties and prior year Forms 5500 or 5500-SF.
Blog by Jennifer Sheehy on the 29th anniversary of the ADA
Overview of OLMS election investigations.
Electrical Contractors Industry
Electronic worker training records - [1910]
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Brownfields
The FAQs provide general information about the minimum wage provisions under the FLSA. The federal minimum wage for covered nonexempt employees and state minimum wage laws. It also, includes various minimum wage exceptions applicable under specific circumstances to workers with disabilities, full-time students, youth under age 20 in their first 90 consecutive days of employment, tipped employees, and student-learners.
Provides information regarding application of FMLA during an influenza pandemic in a Frequently Asked Questions format. Some questions also address the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
This frequently ask questions provides general information about Pandemic Flu and FLSA requirements with respect to the use of volunteers. In general, covered, nonexempt workers working for private, for-profit employers have to be paid at least the minimum wage and cannot volunteer their services.
The FAQs provide general information about Wages, Pay and Benefits under the FLSA.
Whether the Ace Hardware Corporation Cooperative Group Health Plan is an "employee welfare benefit plan" within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA that is maintained by a "group or association of employers" within the meaning of section 3(5) of ERISA and whether it is a MEWA that is fully insured within the meaning of sections 3(40) and 514(b)(6)(A) of ERISA.
overviews reporting requirements of unions under the LMRDA
This document was created collaboratively by the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) regarding the Medicaid Buy-in, which is an optional Medicaid e
Brochure used to market and share information about the program.
Investigation of March 15, 2018 Pedestrian Bridge Collapse at Florida International University, Miami, FL
Nondiscretionary bonus based on per centage of workd maybe paid later for overtime
Highly compensated paralegals are exempt under 13(a)(1)
This document provides an overview of whistleblower protections under Seaman's Protection Act in Portuguese.
Hazard Communication: Joint OSHA/Health Canada Comparison of Labelling Requirements for Hazardous Products (PDF) (2019, July).
Hazard Communication: Joint OSHA/Health Canada Guidance on Labeling Pictogram for Hazards Not Otherwise Classified (HNOC), Physical Hazards Not Otherwise Classified (PHNOC) and Health Hazards Not Otherwise Classified (HHNOC) (PDF) (2019, July).
Hazard Communication: Joint OSHA/Health Canada Guidance on Regulatory Processes for Hazardous Products in the Workplace (PDF) (2019, July).
Heat Illness Prevention: Working Safety in Hot Weather (PDF). OSHA Publication 3975, (2019, July).
Leading Indicators: Using Leading Indicators to Improve Safety and Health Outcomes (2019, July).
PSM and Aerosol (Flammable Gas) Containers Stored in Warehouses/Distribution Centers - [1910.119; 1910.119(a); 1910.119(d)(3)(ii)]
Waste Anesthetic Gases
Rescind P P14-04, dated June 5, 2014, and to re-establish MSHA procedure of assigning expiration dates to Program Policy Letters (PPLs) and Procedure Instruction Letters (PILs). This P also transmits cancellation of directives.
Bulleting discussing safe use of lithium battery-powered devices.
Webpage discussing worker protection against occupational measles exposure and infection.
First aid for bleeding control - [1910.151(a); 1910.151(b); 1910.266(i)(7); 1910.269(b)(1)(ii); 1910.410(a)(3); 1915.87(c)(5); 1915.87(d); 1917.26; 1918.97(b); 1926.50(c); 1926.50(d)(1)]
Termination of the January 2009 Corporate-Wide Settlement Agreement between United Parcel Service (UPS) and OSHA; Enforcement of 20 CFR 1910.37(a)(3) and 29 CFR 1910.36(g)(2) - [1910.36(g)(2); 1910.37(a)(3)]
Web page designed to support the small business community by providing information on contracting opportunities with the Department of Labor, and information that will assist small businesses to comply with DOL laws and regulations, as well as informatio
Web page to to assist small businesses in identifying procurement opportunities and sources from which additional information and guidance can be obtained.
Web page to introduce small businesses to procurement at DOL
Web page with links to the SBA related small businesses with respect to how a small business becomes officially designated as a Small Disadvantaged Business and related issues
Model attestations for annual coverage substantiation requirement and ongoing substantiation requirement under the HRA rules.
Model notice for compliance with individual health insurance coverage HRA disclosure requirements.
FAQs providing overview of the final rules for health reimbursement arrangements.
Apparel and Footwear Industry
A Guide on with respect to Indirect Costs related to VETS
Ladder Grasp Requirements - [1910.23(b)(12)]
Fall Protection
Flood Cleanup: Keeping Workers Safe during Flood Cleanup (PDF). OSHA Publication 3972, (2019, June).
Forklifts: Protecting Workers Operating and Working Near Forklifts (PDF). OSHA Publication 3973, (2019, June).
Measles (2019, June).
Preventing Suicides (2019, June).
Trench Safety: 5 Things You Should Know to Stay Safe (PDF). OSHA Publication 3974, (2019, June).
Trench Safety: Keep Trenches Safe for Workers (PDF). OSHA Publication 3971, (2019, June).
The letter addresses whether activities involving personal and social development are part of rehabilitation services that do not require payment to the workers.
To provide guidance to State Workforce Agencies regarding FY 2019 annual grant allocations for foreign labor certification activities.
Dunn, Sharon
Together, with members of the airline industry and the National Safety Council (NSC), OSHA works to provide employers and airline industry workers with information and assistance to help create a healthy and safe working environment.
Clarification of soft tissue massage - [1904.7(b)(5)(ii)]
CPL 02-00-162 [CPL 02-00-157] - National - Shipyard Employment “Tool Bag” Directive - 05/22/2019 - PDF
CPL 02-01-060 [CPL 02-01-049] - National - 29 CFR Part 1915, Subpart I, Enforcement Guidance for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in Shipyard Employment - 05/22/2019 - PDF
CPL 02-01-061 [CPL 02-01-051] - National - 29 CFR Part 1915, Subpart B, Confined and Enclosed Spaces and Other Dangerous Atmospheres in Shipyard Employment - 05/22/2019 - PDF
Definition of Confined Space, as it may apply to large product heating and aging furnaces - [1910.146; 1910.25(c)(3)]
HAZCOM's hazardous waste exemption as related to EPA's universal wastes - [1910.1200(b)(6)(i)]
Personal Fall Arrest System or Ladder Safety System on Fixed Ladders - [1910.28; 1910.28(b)(9)(i)(A); 1910.28(b)(9)(i)(B); 1910.28(b)(9)(i)(C); 1910.28(b)(9)(i)(D)]
This document represents OSHA’s summary of the scope of coverage and protected activity and the procedures for handling investigations under the whistleblower protection provision of the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act.
This document represents OSHA’s summary of the scope of coverage and protected activity and the procedures for handling investigations under the whistleblower protection provision of the International Safe Container Act.
Motor Vehicle Safety
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