[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 132 (Friday, July 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39781-39783]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-16895]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-15-0949; Docket No. CDC-2015-0053]
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 the proposed
extension of the information collection entitled Evaluating the
Effectiveness of Occupational Safety and Health Program Elements in the
Wholesale Retail Trade Sector. The National
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Institute for Occupational Safety and Health seeks to continue its
scientific intervention effectiveness research to support the evidenced
based prevention of occupational injuries and illnesses in the
wholesale/retail sector.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before September 8,
2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0053 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 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
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Occupational Safety and Health
Program Elements in the Wholesale Retail Trade Sector OMB No. 0920-
0949, expires 10/31/2015)--Extension--National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The mission of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH) is to promote safety and health at work for all people
through research and prevention. Under Public Law 91-596, sections 20
and 22 (Section 20-22, Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970),
NIOSH has the responsibility to conduct research to advance the health
and safety of workers. In this capacity, NIOSH proposes to conduct a
study to assess the effectiveness of occupational safety and health
(OSH) program elements in the wholesale/retail trade (WRT) sector. An
extension is being requested in order to allow for additional time to
complete the study. Data has already been collected for the first year
of the study. Additional time is being requested in order to collect
the remaining data for the second and third year.
Liberty Mutual has estimated direct workers compensation costs to
industry in the United States in 2009 to be $50 billion. The WRT
industry sector employs over 21 million workers or 19% of the workforce
in private industry. In 2007, the majority of non-fatal injuries and
illnesses involving days away from work in the WRT sector involved
musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs, 29%) or slip/trip/falls (STFs, 22%).
For this reason, major strategic NIOSH goals in the WRT sector are to
reduce MSDs, STFs and other injuries/illnesses in part by assessing the
effectiveness of occupational safety and health (OSH) programs designed
to prevent these outcomes. There is some evidence that OSH prevention
programs built on key elements (management leadership, employee
participation, hazard identification and control, medical management,
training, and program evaluation) reduce losses. However, little
evidence exists on the relative effectiveness of program elements
compared to each other. There is a need for research to develop
reliable OSH program metrics and determine which elements have the
greatest impact on injuries, illnesses and work disability. A renewed
partnership between NIOSH and the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation
(OBWC) a timely opportunity to conduct such research in a relevant and
efficient manner.
A collaborative study involving NIOSH and the OBWC will examine the
association between survey-assessed OSH program elements
(organizational policies, procedures, practices) and workers
compensation (WC) injury/illness outcomes in a stratified sample of
OBWC-insured wholesale/retail trade (WRT) firms. Crucial OSH program
elements with particularly high impact on WC losses will be identified
in this study and disseminated to the WRT sector. This study will
provide important information that is not currently available elsewhere
on the effectiveness of OSH programs for the WRT sector. This project
fits the mission of CDC-NIOSH to conduct scientific intervention
effectiveness research to support the evidenced based prevention of
occupational injuries and illnesses.
For this study, the target population includes United States WRT
firms (North American Industry Classification System codes 42, 44, 45,
45). The sampling frame includes OBWC-insured WRT firms in Ohio. The
study sample includes OBWC-insured WRT firms who volunteer to
participate in the OBWC-NIOSH research project.
The proposed research involves a firm-level survey of a series of
organizational metrics considered to be
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potential predictors of injury and illness WC claim rates and duration
in a stratified sample of OBWC-insured WRT firms in Ohio. There are
expected to be up to 4,404 participants per year; surveys will
administered twice to the same firms in successive years (e.g. from
January-December 2014 and again from January-December 2015).
An individual responsible for the OSH program at each firm will be
asked to complete survey that include a background section related to
respondent and company demographics and a main section where
individuals will be asked to evaluate organizational metrics related to
their firm's OSH program. The firm-level survey data will be linked to
five years of retrospective injury and illness WC claims data and two
years of prospective injury and illness WC claims data from OBWC to
determine which organizational metrics are related to firm-level injury
and illness WC claim rates. A nested study will ask multiple
respondents at a subset of 60 firms to participate by completing
surveys. A five-minute interview will be conducted with a 10% sample of
non-responders (up to 792 individuals).
In order to maximize efficiency and reduce burden, a web-based
survey is proposed for the majority (95%) of survey data collection.
Collected information will be used to determine whether a significant
relationship exists between self-reported firm OSH elements and firm WC
outcomes while controlling for covariates. Once the study is completed,
benchmarking reports about OSH elements that have the highest impact on
WC losses in the WRT sector will be made available through the NIOSH-
OBWC internet sites and peer-reviewed publications.
In summary, this study will determine the effectiveness of OSH
program elements in the WRT sector and enable evidence-based prevention
practices to be shared with the greatest audience possible. NIOSH
expects to complete data collection in 2015. There is no cost to
respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of respondent Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hours) (in hours)
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Safety and Health Managers in Wholesale/Retail Occupational Safety and Health Program 4,404 1 20/60 1,468
Trade (WRT) Firms in Ohio. Survey.
Informed Consent Form.................. 4,404 1 2/60 147
Non Responder Interview................ 792 1 5/60 66
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Total Hours................................ ....................................... .............. .............. .............. 1,681
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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. 2015-16895 Filed 7-9-15; 8:45 am]
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