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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 Ionizing Radiation Standard, 29 CFR 1910.1096. - [1910.1096]
Application of 1910.120 to the construction of a building where the ground water would be classified as hazardous waste. - [1910.120]
Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) Material Safety Data Sheet Requirements for the Construction Industry. - [1910.1200(g)]
The legal right of employer to issue a notice to all workers concerning the management's policy on job safety and health.
Whether the WBMA, Inc. Voluntary Employee Benefit Trust is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA and whether the Trust is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of section 3(40) of title I of ERISA.
Whether the Police Plan is a governmental plan within the meaning of section 3(32) of Title I of ERISA and, thus, is excluded from the requirements of title I of ERISA; as well as the applicable requirements of section 414(d) of the Internal Revenue.
Whether, upon formation of a partnership that intends to comply with the venture capital operating company exception contained in section 29 CFR 2510.3-101, the funds received as initial capital contributions from employee benefit plans will constitute plan assets prior to the partnership's first "venture capital investment".
The feasibility of OSHA's machine guarding requirements in their workplace. - [1910.212(a)(1); 1910.212(a)(3)(ii)]
Whether the investment in publicly offered limited partnerships; would satisfy the "freely transferable" requirement of the "publicly-offered" exception contained in the plan asset regulation section 29 CFR 2510.3-101(b)(2).
Maintenance of material safety data sheets(MSDS) and the written hazard communication program. - [1910.1020; 1910.1200]
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