February 21, 2025
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The health and safety agency purged “diversity” documents, but they were not Dei
Osha’s websites eliminated to contain the word “diversity” were not related to gender or racial diversity
Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), an arm of the Labor Department, Washington DC
Climatewire | Several security documents containing the word “diversity” of the website of the Labor Department were eliminated. But they were not the type of racial and gender diversity programs that he has been pointing to the Government’s efficiency department.
On the other hand, the diverse size and shape of firefighters were dealt with, a detail that helps them adequately fit safety equipment such as fan masks. Another document that was demolished indicated the different set of situations in which the first responders could be working.
The executive order of President Donald Trump promoted his elimination to end the federal initiatives of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility, as well as missives of the White House to stop promoting “gender ideology.”
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The Trump administration has been looking for those terms in programs, grants and documents to activate financing freezing and shutter initiatives aimed at counteracting discrimination based on the breed, gender and disabilities of people.
As a result, the stripes of the government’s websites have been disconnected in the last month. That includes a 2015 guide from the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, an arm of the Labor Department, about access to the bath for transgender workers. The eliminated document cited the OSHA sanitation standard that requires employers to provide workers with bathing facilities.
Accessed through the Internet fileThe 2015 guide indicates that OSHA has long interpreted that the standard means that “employers cannot impose unreasonable restrictions on the use of employee bath facilities.” He also explains that “bath restrictions can cause employees to avoid the use of bathrooms completely while they are at work, which can cause potentially serious physical injuries or diseases.”
Other documents that were eliminated include guidance for lifeguards when they treat and transport victims of chemical versions and guidance for small businesses on which personal protective equipment, such as respirators, should use in various scenarios.
Osha did not respond to comments requests. But emails obtained by the website Popular information Show OSHA’s public affairs officials announced to the agency staff that publications were eliminated from the website and will not be distributed from the Osha warehouse. February 7 email said: “If you have wallet cards that include language, or they can be interpreted, in Deia or gender ideology, disregard them too.”
Purge has caught the attention of legislators. Democrats from the House of Representatives in the Education and Workforce Committee He wrote a letter To Vince Micone, Secretary of Interim Labor, to raise his concerns last week.
“If deleting these documents is related to the executive orders of President Trump about the so -called” gender ideology “and” diversity, equity and inclusion “, Dol seems to be implementing orders as if there are a list of prohibited words, without taking into account the context in which the words are used,” they wrote.
The eliminated guide on the treatment of victims of chemical exhibitions describes lifeguards as a “diverse group”, which refers to the breed and ethnicity, but to “the various conditions under which EMS responders could work”, as full -time, full -time or as volunteers. “Its risks vary with their primary and secondary roles,” said the guide, which is accessible only through the Internet file.
Other eliminated documents provided guidance for respirators properly adjusted for health professionals. Mentions gender only to keep in mind that the protocol to test the masks has a “incorporated capacity to [adapt for] Unique work rate, mask and gender situations that can be applied in a specific workplace. “
This document is among some that have been published to the OSHA website this week after the Democrats of the House of Representatives raised concerns.
But other documents, including those about lifeguards and violence in the workplace in medical care environments, remained offline until Thursday afternoon.
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