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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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.
U.S. Department of Labor
Office of the Executive Secretariat
200 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20210
Search Tips
- If you are searching using an acronym, try a second search with the acronym spelled out. For example, if you are searching for guidance related to the Davis-Bacon Act, try searching "Davis-Bacon Act" as well as "DBA".
- For more specific results, use quotation marks around phrases.
- For more general results, remove quotation marks to search for each word individually. For example, minimum wage will return all documents that have either the word minimum or the word wage in the description, while “minimum wage” will limit results to those containing that phrase.
Spray Finishing. - [1910.107]
Request for Interpretation - 29 CFR 1910.213(f)(2). - [1910.213]
OSHA's requirements for locking type snaphooks on pole strap systems. - [1910.23; 1910.67; 1910.269; 1926.502; 1926.556; 1926.959]
Grounding requirements with respect to a battery charger used with rechargeable power tools. - [1910.304; 1910.307; 1910.399]
Scope of logging standard -- 1910.266. - [1910.132; 1910.138; 1910.242; 1910.266; 1910.269]
Request for reconsideration or clarification of AO 95-06A, which held that the group health benefits program offered by Mid-Continent Medical Benefits Trust is a “multiple employer welfare arrangement” within the meaning of ERISA section 3(40), and not an employee benefit plan, and that ERISA section 514(a) would not preempt state regulation of the Trust, Profession Administration Group, or "the pooled custodial account" maintained by these entities.
The conditions for the exemption from the minimum wage an dovertime were satisfied.
Determination on whether the "Line Journeyman Changing out Trasformer" activities are within the intent of the OSHA standards. - [1910.269]
Low urinary creatinine levels. - [1910.1027]
Fit testing and fit factors for the N-95 respirators for protection against TB exposure. - [1910.134]
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