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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
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Storage of flammable liquids and the applicability to the Process Safety Management standard. - [1910.119]
WHD will not assert an employment relationship between a for-profit hospice and individuals who volunteer their servies to perform activities of a charitable nature, such as running errands, sitting with patients so that a family may have a break and going to funerals. However, individuals many not donate their services to hospices to do activities such as general o9ffice or administrative work that are not charitable in nature.
Whether a plan administrator may refund, without violating the anti-inurement rule in ERISA section 403(c)(1), amounts that the plan administrator has determined were wrongly assessed due to computer programming errors.
A letter of compliance from OSHA regarding "HAZCOM" data sheets. - [1926.59 ]
Concerns with the OSHA June 30 memorandum concerning the application of 29 CFR 1926.652 to house foundation/basement excavations. - [1926.652]
The Ciba Self-Medication, Inc. (CSM) facility and the application of OSHA's PSM of Highly Hazardous Chemicals Standard. - [1910.119]
An interpretation relative to ingressing and egressing an elevated manlift at an elevated level. - [1926.556]
Clarification on who must receive first responder awareness level training. - [1910.120]
Shower requirements for the Lead in Construction Standard. - [1910.106; 1926.62 ]
Statement of compliance from OSHA for a pole-mounted powder actuated tool. - [1926.302]
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