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.
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Training requirements of 1910.120 - [1910.120]
Identification of a standard threshold shift (STS) for individuals with a very poor sense of hearing. - [1910.95(g)(10)]
OSHA standards that may apply to one-man radio-controlled locomotives in the steel industry. - [1910.261]
Monitoring employee exposures to airborne benzene. - [1910.1028]
Applicability of the Field Sanitation Standard. - [1928.110]
Whether the Hinds County General Hospital's welfare benefit plans for employees are governmental plans within the meaning of section 3(32) of title I of ERISA.
Whether the payment of performance-based compensation to Alliance Capital Management L.P. by employee benefit plans will result in a violation of section 406(b) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) or section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. This letter supersedes ERISA Opinion No. 89-28A, which contained a misstatement of fact, which had no bearing on the opinion expressed therein.
Interpretation on the application of 1910.120 to clean-up of water-borne releases of hazardous substances. - [1910.120]
Two different design requirements for handrail and scaffolding. - [1926.451(a)(1); 1926.451(g)(4)(vii)]
Whether the Department's regulations at 29 CFR §2550.408b-1 requires that loans be made available to plan participants and beneficiaries who are not "parties in interest'' with respect to the plan.
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