{"id":11080,"date":"2025-02-14T14:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T19:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=11080"},"modified":"2025-02-14T14:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T19:30:50","slug":"democrats-demand-answers-on-dol-book-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2025\/02\/14\/democrats-demand-answers-on-dol-book-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Demand Answers on DOL Book Burning"},"content":{"rendered":"

D<\/span>emocrats are fighting back. Earlier this week, Confined Space reported<\/a> that numerous OSHA health and safety documents had been banned and removed<\/a> from OSHA’s website.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Democratic leaders of the House Education and Labor<\/del> Workforce Committee sent a sharply worded letter<\/a> to Acting Labor Secretary Vince Micone, demanding answers about why OSHA deleted web pages on worker hazards like toxic chemicals and workplace violence as part of President Donald Trump\u2019s war on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies.<\/p>\n

Education and Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Ranking Member of the Workforce Protections Subcommittee, Ilhan Omar (D-MN), noted that DOL officials seem to be guided by a list of banned word “without any regard for the context in which words are used” to satisfy President Trump\u2019s executive orders on so-called \u201cgender ideology\u201d and \u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion,\u201d<\/p>\n

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The letter notes, for example, that “workplace violence guidance describes one health care facility\u2019s creative approaches as including an effort by managers to assemble ‘a diverse group of trainers\u2014 bedside nurses, team leaders, nursing supervisors, human resources staff, critical care personnel, medical\/surgical staff, and security workers\u2014with the aim of providing mentors, coaches, and \u2018champions\u2019 throughout the hospital.'”<\/p>\n

DOL officials seem to be guided by a list of banned word “without any regard for the context in which words are used” to satisfy President Trump\u2019s executive orders on so-called \u201cgender ideology\u201d and \u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And banned ergonomics guidelines “all advise employers that gender can be a factor, along with age and length of service, in a worker\u2019s risk of musculoskeletal injury.”<\/p>\n

It is difficult to imagine how the ergonomic guidance documents in particular\u2014which were developed by OSHA during the administration of President George W. Bush, as an offering by then-Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao to address the threat of disabling musculoskeletal disorders in lieu of a promised standard that never, ultimately, materialized\u2014could ever be deemed guilty of \u201cgender ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Congressional leaders also condemned OSHA’s order to destroy existing written documents:<\/p>\n

OSHA\u2019s staff should be focused on making workplaces safer, not erasing valuable information for arbitrary reasons. If you are destroying documents, we demand that you cease doing so and refocus on DOL\u2019s mission to protect workers\u2019 lives and livelihoods.<\/p>\n

Scott and Omar promised to keep monitoring the situation and also requested that by February 28, DOL<\/p>\n

1. Provide a chart of all documents that have been pulled from DOL\u2019s websites, including the title, the original URL of the document, and a detailed explanation of the reason for its deletion from the website.<\/p>\n

2. Provide all documents and communications between January 21, 2025, and the date of this letter regarding implementation of Executive Orders 14,151 and 14,168, review of documents for any keywords, elimination of documents from the DOL website, physical destruction or recycling of documents, and whether to continue or end distribution of documents.<\/p>\n

If you are destroying documents, we demand that you cease doing so and refocus on DOL\u2019s mission to protect workers\u2019 lives and livelihoods.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They ended with a strong condemnation of Trump’s actions weakening oversight of the Department of Labor<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of President Trump\u2019s firing of the DOL Inspector General, there is now a void of oversight for DOL as a very young and inexperienced team and their leader, the world\u2019s richest man, who operates with \u201cautonomy \u2018almost no one can control,\u2019\u201d gain dangerously broad powers to infiltrate DOL\u2019s internal systems.<\/p>\n

At stake are the integrity of investigations into workplace health, mine safety, and child labor violations, including the identity of witnesses and workers who file complaints; the personal privacy of workers and families who receive medical and financial support from the black lung program and other workers\u2019 compensation programs; the confidentiality of whistleblowers under dozens of whistleblower protection laws; the trustworthiness of market-moving Bureau of Labor Statistics data; and confidential business information of countless companies, exposure of which could upend the nation\u2019s economy. We expect a prompt, thorough, and accurate response to this request and future inquiries.<\/p>\n

Some Retreat?<\/h2>\n

The public outcry over the Department of Labor’s book burning may be having some effect. (Or, in some cases, maybe embarrassed OSHA leadership realize how stupid they are looking.)<\/p>\n

\"\"A few of the previously banned publications are back on the website.\u00a0 For example, the “Small Entity Compliance Guide for the Respiratory Protection Standard<\/a>,” which teaches small employers how to properly use respirators is back up even though it contains the word “gender,” although “Assigned protection factors guide for the revised respiratory protection standard<\/a>” is still banned.<\/p>\n

The factsheet on “Workplace Mental Health<\/a>” has also reappeared (and probably in high demand these days.) And the Alliance with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention<\/a> has also reappeared, as have Alliances with Partners for Safe Trenching and Excavation Operations<\/a> and the National Demolition Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs in Construction<\/a> is still down (possibly because it states that “Greater diversity in the construction workforce means that people from different backgrounds and cultures are working alongside each other, often speaking different languages.”)<\/p>\n

Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs<\/a> in general industry, on the other hand, is back up, even though it contains the same paragraph. Go figure…<\/p>\n

But all of the subversive ergonomics publications are still banned, as well as publications on workplace violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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