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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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The StopStix resheathing device is not acceptable to the bloodborne pathogen standard. - [1910.1030]
Bloodborne pathogen standard's applicability to employees of summer camps and conference/retreat centers. - [1910.1030]
Body Belts for Climbing. - [1926.951(b)(1)]
Request for a copy of a memorandum dated July 15, 1992 regarding a Sage Products sharps disposal container. - [1910.1030]
Bloodborne pathogens standard requirements relating to subculturing microorganisms. - [1910.1030]
Whether the proposed Simmons Company Short-Term Disability Plan, providing weekly income to certain non-bargaining unit employees unable to perform their regular duties due to illness, injury, or accident, would be an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of Title I of ERISA or a payroll practice described in §2510.3-1(b)(2).
Whether the Police Benevolent Association of Richmond, Virginia is not an "employee organization" within the meaning of section 3(4) of ERISA or, if the Department is unable to reach such a conclusion, that the Police Benevolent Association of Richmond, Virginia’s program of benefits is an "employee welfare benefit plan" within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA and not an "employee pension benefit plan" within the meaning of section 3(2) of ERISA.
Whether the FCE Health and Welfare Service Industry Trust, established by the Federal Contract Employees Health & Welfare Fund, Inc., is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of section 3(40) of Title I of ERISA, and whether the Trust is subject to the applicable regulatory authority of the State of Virginia's insurance laws or is saved from such authority under the general preemption provision of section 514(a) of Title I of ERISA.
Bloodborne pathogens standard's relationship to a checklist for dental offices. - [1910.1030]
Manufacturing facilities with potential for exposure to hazardous waste. - [1910.120]
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