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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Whether the Alarm Association of Florida Health and Welfare Benefit Plan (the Plan) is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA and whether the preemption provisions of section 514 of that title preempt state regulation of the Plan.
Whether purchases of stock of the Regis Group Incorporated (Regis) by various self-directed individual retirement accounts for which Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated (Baird), a wholly owned subsidiary of Regis, is the prototype sponsor is prohibited under the prohibited transaction provisions of section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code).
Whether The Derby Association Trust, Inc. (the Trust) is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of section 3(40) of title I of ERISA, and whether the preemption provisions of section 514 of that title preempt state regulation of the Trust.
Whether the Group Rental Insurance Plan Medical Trust (the Trust) is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of section 3(40) of title I of ERISA.
Whether MDPEBP is an employee benefit plan covered by title I of ERISA and whether the ability of the State of Texas to regulate MDPEBP is preempted by ERISA section 514(b)(6)(A).
Concerning the conditions under which material data safety sheets are required. - [1910.1200]
Interpretation of OSHA standards 1910.261(a)(1) and 1910.261(a)(4)(ii). - [1910.261; 1910.261(a)(1); 1910.261(a)(4)(ii)]
OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard. - [1910.1200]
First Aid treatment required within 3 to 4 minutes of injury. - [1926.106(d)]
Ventilation for an anhydrous ammonia refrigeration system. - [1910.134; 1910.307(b); 1910.1000; 1910.1200]
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