[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 217 (Tuesday, November 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69681-69683]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-28474]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-16-16CQ; Docket No. CDC-2015-0101]
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
``Occupational Health Safety Network (OHSN)'' data collection.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before January 11, 2016.
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ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0101 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
Occupational Health Safety Network (OHSN)--Existing Information
Collection in use Without an OMB Control Number--National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Healthcare in the United States is a growing industry that employs
more than 19 million workers with a substantial burden of occupational
injuries and illnesses. In 2013, one in five workers in the healthcare
and social assistance industry reported a nonfatal job-related injury.
This is the highest number of non-fatal injuries reported among all
private industries.
U.S. healthcare facilities depend on surveillance data to track the
incidence of injuries, identify risk factors, target prevention
activities and evaluate interventions to reduce the occurrence of
occupational injury among healthcare personnel. To assist healthcare
facilities to enhance capacity to use existing surveillance data, in
2012, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
launched the Occupational Health Safety Network (OHSN), a voluntary
surveillance system developed specifically for healthcare personnel
environment. OHSN is a free and secure electronic occupational safety
and health surveillance system that has provided U.S. healthcare
facilities the ability to efficiently analyze their own occupational
injury data while, at the same time, serving as a source for national
surveillance by sharing their de-identified injury data with NIOSH.
Unlike other national occupational surveillance systems, OHSN offers an
integrated approach to monitor standard occupational injuries among
facility-based healthcare personnel in the U.S. and to provide timely,
facility-level feedback to participants with benchmarking and analyses
capabilities.
OHSN collects two types of data from participating facilities.
Facilities collect these data to meet specific regulatory or
administrative requirements. Thus, no new data collection is required.
Participating facilities provide OHSN a onetime enrollment. The
enrollment form requests information about the participating facility,
which is publically available from American Hospital Association.
Participating facilities also provide a monthly submission of
occupational injury data collected in the previous month. These data
are sent to OHSN via a web portal in a format using standardized data
elements and value sets. No personal identifiable information is
transmitted to OHSN. Data elements include: Injury time, location and
surrounding circumstances of each injury event.
Healthcare facilities download data through an OHSN-provided data
conversion and mapping tools which uploads the monthly occupational
injury data.
Each participating facility has access to the OHSN web portal,
facilities are able to analyze current and historical data to benchmark
their worker injury rates and trends and compare their data to
aggregate data from similar workplaces. In addition they are able to
assess the impact of prevention efforts on occupational health and
safety over time using aggregated data analysis and visualization tools
(charts and graphs).
OHSN currently tracks three common, serious, and preventable
categories of traumatic injury to healthcare personnel: Slips, trips
and falls; musculoskeletal disorders resulting from patient handling
and movement events; and workplace violence. NIOSH proposes to add new
modules about exposure to sharps injury and blood and body fluids
exposures.
NIOSH analyzes the data submitted to OHSN to conduct occupational
health surveillance and to produce periodic aggregate reports on the
occurrence of and risk factors for occupational injuries among all OHSN
facilities.
OHSN has been operating continuously and receiving voluntary
monthly reports from 116 participating facilities since 2012 and is
projected to enroll total of 300 facilities in the next 3 years. NIOSH
seeks approval for an OMB control number to continue this
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important work. There is no cost to the respondents other than their
time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per Total burden
Type of respondents Form name respondents responses per response (in (in hrs.)
respondent hrs.)
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U.S. healthcare facilities.... Occupational 300 12 3/60 180
Health Safety
Network (OHSN).
U.S. healthcare facilities.... Enrollment form. 300 1 1/60 5
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 185
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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. 2015-28474 Filed 11-9-15; 8:45 am]
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