Book Burning Begins at OSHA

Trump’s purge of documents containing “offensive” words from government websites is the new book-burning.

But this book burning doesn’t just harm readers; it kills workers.

We know that Trump and his minions feel that any publication referencing DEI is like garlic to vampires. We’ve started to see examples of websites being expunged in a number of agencies, ranging from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to documents referencing sexual violence and AIDS Relief on the CDC website, to information on the US Army’s website concerning the U.S. Army Women’s Museum (hear that Joni Ernst?)

Now the book burners have descended on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. While some of the censorship deals with the mortal (and silly) threat of DEI, many of the bannings are far more serious: they threatens workers’ lives.

An email went to all OSHA employees earlier this month listing the publications to be removed from the OSHA website and directing Regional and Area office staff to remove any physical copies from their warehouses and dispose or recycle them.

With no detailed guidance, OSHA staff — understandably terrified by the mass disciplinary actions and terminations at USAID and other agencies for “insubordination” — seem to be going overboard on Trump’s order “to align agency or department programs, activities, policies, regulations, guidance, employment practices, enforcement activities, contracts (including set-asides), grants, consent orders, and litigating positions with the policy of equal dignity and respect identified.”

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