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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
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Worker Safety
Worker Safety
Whether an LED type device ca be used for the isolation and deenergization verification requirements of 1910.147 and 1910.333. - [1910.147]
Provides additional clarification concerning the application of the MSPA, FLSA, and OSH Act FSS to activities in connection with the raking, gathering, baling, and loading of pine straw gathered from pine trees grown for commercial timber.
Clarification concerning fall protection and vertical walled trenches with depth of 6 feet or greater and use of controlled access zones
Is reassembly of a cylinder valve a mechanical integrity activity? - [1910.119; 1910.119(j)(4)(iv)]
Facts about how a worker died when he fell from an oil derrick where fall protection was not adequate. Guidance is specific to preventing another fatality from the same sequence of events.
This is a OSHA and NIOSH collaboration that discusses the hazards associated with exposures to crystaline silica during hydaulic fracturing operations. The alert also provides safet guards employers can take to protect their workers.
Facts about how a worker died when flammable vapors ignited caused by the electric equipment they were using. Guidance is specific to preventing another fatality from the same sequence of events.
Facts about how a worker died because a load was not properly rigged while being moved. The load came off the rigging and struct the worker. Guidance is specific to preventing another fatality from the same sequence of events.
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