[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 67 (Wednesday, April 8, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18844-18846]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-08026]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-15-15XT;Docket No. CDC-2015-0017]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part
of its continuing efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the
utility of government information, invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on Enhancing Mine
Workers' Abilities to Identify Hazards at Sand, Stone, and Gravel (SSG)
Mines. The objective of this project is to characterize SSG mine
workers ability to recognize worksite hazards, to understand how this
ability relates to perceived and measured risk as well as to other
factors internal and external to the SSG mine worker.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before June 8, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0017 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted
without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.
Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the
Federal eRulemaking portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan
and instruments, contact the Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of
information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires
Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information
collection before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a
proposed data collection as described below.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology; and (e) estimates of capital
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or start-up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of
services to provide information. Burden means the total time, effort,
or financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain,
retain, disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency.
This includes the time needed to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; to
train personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of
information, to search data sources, to complete and review the
collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
Proposed Project
Enhancing Mine Workers' Abilities to Identify Hazards at Sand,
Stone, and Gravel Mines--New--National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Background and Brief Description
NIOSH, under Pub. L. 91-173 as amended by Pub. L. 95-164 (Federal
Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977), and Pub. L. 109-236 (Mine
Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006) has the
responsibility to conduct research to improve working conditions and to
prevent accidents and occupational diseases in underground coal and
metal/nonmetal mines in the U.S.
Hazard recognition is only the first step to a safe work
environment. A miner must be able to identify a hazard, recognize the
risk associated with the hazard, and then make a decision of how to
mitigate the risk and perform the task safely. Risk is defined as the
combination of the likelihood an event will occur and the adverse
consequences of that event (Brown & Groeger, 1988). Risk perception,
the recognition of the risk inherent in a situation, influences
decision making with regards to job safety (Hunter, 2002). Being able
to recognize worksite hazards and then accurately perceive the
associated risk are critical skills that lead to the work behavior
decision-making process that is used to eliminate or reduce mining
hazards related to operations and maintenance of machinery, operation
of powered haulage, material handling, etc. that can result in injury
or death.
Hazard recognition is integral to risk perception, situational
awareness, and decision making--that is, if the mine worker is unable
to recognize worksite hazards, then steps cannot be taken to eliminate
or mitigate them. Thus, the mine worker must first be able to recognize
that a hazard is present in the environment and then understand the
risk the hazard poses to their safety and health in order to make the
best decision possible about how to deal with the hazard. Hazard
recognition is a necessary skill for all mine workers; therefore, a
better understanding of the hazard recognition process within the
mining environment is a critical need that this research will fulfill
for the industry.
Given the aforementioned, the objective of the project is to
characterize SSG mine workers' ability to recognize worksite hazards,
to understand how this ability relates to perceived and measured risk
as well as to other factors internal and external to the SSG mine
worker.
In order to determine how SSG mine workers' recognize and
understand the risk associated with mine site hazards, NIOSH will
conduct a laboratory-based experimental research study. Throughout the
laboratory study, participants will wear a light weight eye-tracking
system. Eye-movements will be collected throughout the task so that
search patterns can be mapped during analysis to determine differences
based on level of experience. NIOSH will also collect identification
accuracy data to determine whether level of experience affects the
number of hazards identified.
NIOSH will collect additional measures related to perceived risk
and risk tolerance. Researchers will assess perceived risk using a Risk
Assessment measure which has three parts: (1) An overall evaluation of
risk level; (2) an evaluation of accident severity; and (3) an
evaluation of risk probability. This will be done for each hazard
included in the study.
Researchers will assess Risk Tolerance in two ways: (1) Through the
use of the Risk Propensity Scale (Meertens & Lion, 2008) and (2)
through the use of Risk Tolerance Workplace Scenarios (Lehmann, Haight,
& Michael, 2009). NIOSH will also collect qualitative data through the
use of open-ended interview questions.
NIOSH will collect data from SSG mine workers, SSG safety
professionals, and students knowledgeable of safety and health issues
at SSG mine sites but who have limited work experience on a mine site.
The purposes of collecting data from these three groups of participants
are to identify differences in hazard recognition abilities and
determine how these abilities change--and whether they change--with
level of experience and amount of experience with hazards at SSG mine
sites.
The total estimated burden hours are 160. There are no costs to
respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number Avg. burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hrs.) (in hrs.)
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Mine Employee................. Prescreening 45 1 15/60 11
Questionnaire.
Safety Professional........... Prescreening 20 1 15/60 5
Questionnaire.
Student....................... Prescreening 20 1 15/60 5
Questionnaire.
Mine Employee................. Informed Consent 30 1 6/60 3
Safety Professional........... Informed Consent 15 1 6/60 2
Student....................... Informed Consent 15 1 6/60 2
Mine Employee................. Demographic 30 1 6/60 3
Questionnaire.
Safety Professional........... Demographic 15 1 6/60 2
Questionnaire.
Student....................... Demographic 15 1 6/60 2
Questionnaire.
Mine Employee................. Experimental 30 1 60/60 30
Task.
Safety Professional........... Experimental 15 1 1 15
Task.
Student....................... Experimental 15 1 1 15
Task.
Mine Employee................. Risk Assessment 30 1 20/60 10
Measure.
Safety Professional........... Risk Assessment 15 1 20/60 5
Measure.
Student....................... Risk Assessment 15 1 20/60 5
Measure.
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Mine Employee................. Risk Propensity 30 1 6/60 3
Scale.
Safety Professional........... Risk Propensity 15 1 6/60 2
Scale.
Student....................... Risk Propensity 15 1 6/60 2
Scale.
Mine Employee................. Mine Specific 30 1 6/60 3
Risk Tolerance
Measure.
Safety Professional........... Mine Specific 15 1 6/60 2
Risk Tolerance
Measure.
Student....................... Mine Specific 15 1 6/60 2
Risk Tolerance
Measure.
Mine Employee................. Open Ended 30 1 30/60 15
Questions.
Safety Professional........... Open Ended 15 1 30/60 8
Questions.
Student....................... Open Ended 15 1 30/60 8
Questions.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 160
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2015-08026 Filed 4-7-15; 8:45 am]
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