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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
Search Tips
- If you are searching using an acronym, try a second search with the acronym spelled out. For example, if you are searching for guidance related to the Davis-Bacon Act, try searching "Davis-Bacon Act" as well as "DBA".
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Applicability of Section 1910.106 to Chemicals Plants. - [1910.106]
Whether the Insurance Plan and Trust of the North Dakota Auto and Implement Dealers (Intrust) constitutes a single "employee welfare benefit plan" within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA.
Preparing a Material Safety Data Sheet under the trade secret provisions of the Hazard Communication Standard. - [1910.1200]
Response to request for variance from 1910.242(b). - [1910.242(b)]
Whether fiduciaries of a plan can lawfully rely upon a plan provision to the extent it would purport to establish a trustee's term of appointment as lifetime under section 404(a)(1)(D) of ERISA which requires fiduciaries to act in accordance with the plan documents and instruments, insofar as they are consistent with titles I and IV of ERISA.
OSHA standards for foot protection. - [1910.136]
Examination of a proposed payment plan for local delivery drivers or helpers section 13(b)(11) and recordkeeping requirements.
Inspection procedures for the Hazard Communication Standard. - [1910.1200]
Whether certain arrangement involving the transfer of funds by the Pension Plan to the Welfare Plan would be prohibited under section 406 of ERISA, and whether the provision of services by the Pension Plan to the Welfare Plan under the arrangement described would be exempt from the prohibitions of ERISA section 406(a) and 406(b)(2) if the conditions of PTE 76-1 and PTE 77-10 are met.
Facial hair in the face sealing area is unacceptable. - [1910.134(g)(1)(i); 1910.134(g)(1)(ii); 1910.134(g)(1)(iii)]
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