[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 207 (Tuesday, October 27, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65763-65764]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-27301]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-16-0914]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has submitted 
the following information collection request to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for the proposed 
information collection is published to obtain comments from the public 
and affected agencies.
    Written comments and suggestions from the public and affected 
agencies concerning the proposed collection of information are 
encouraged. Your comments should address any of the following: (a) 
Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary 
for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including 
whether the information will have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the 
accuracy of the agencies estimate of the burden of the proposed 
collection of information, including the validity of the methodology 
and assumptions used; (c) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of 
the information to be collected; (d) Minimize the burden of the 
collection of information on those who are to respond, including 
through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or 
other technological collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses; and 
(e) Assess information collection costs.
    To request additional information on the proposed project or to 
obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, call 
(404) 639-7570 or send an email to [email protected]. Written comments and/or 
suggestions regarding the items contained in this notice should be 
directed to the Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and 
Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Written 
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    Workplace Violence Prevention Programs in NJ Healthcare Facilities 
(OMB Control No. 0920-0914, Expiration 2/29/2016)--Revision--National 
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Through this information collection revision request, the National 
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is seeking an 
additional two-year OMB approval.
    NIOSH originally received OMB approval to evaluate the legislation 
at 50 hospitals and 20 nursing homes, to conduct a nurse survey, and a 
home healthcare aide survey. Data collection is complete for the 
hospitals, the nurse survey, and the home healthcare aide survey. We 
were unable to conduct the 20 nursing home interviews. Therefore, we 
are requesting approval to revise the existing information collection 
in order to complete the 20 nursing home interviews, as well as include 
an additional 20 nursing homes (40 total) in the collection. The 
current approval also includes a survey that collects nursing home 
injury data. We would like to drop this survey and, instead, collect 
publicly available workers compensation data.
    Healthcare workers are nearly five times more likely to be victims 
of violence than workers in all industries combined. While healthcare 
workers are not at particularly high risk for job-related homicide, 
nearly 60% of all nonfatal assaults occurring in private industry are 
experienced in healthcare. Six states have enacted laws to reduce 
violence against healthcare workers by requiring workplace violence 
prevention programs. However, little is understood about how effective 
these laws are in reducing violence against healthcare workers.
    The long-term goal of the proposed project is to reduce violence 
against healthcare workers. The objective of the proposed study is: (1) 
To examine nursing home compliance with the New Jersey Violence 
Prevention in Health Care Facilities Act, and (2) to evaluate the 
effectiveness of the regulations in this Act in reducing assault 
injuries to nursing home workers. Our central hypothesis is that 
nursing homes with high compliance with the regulations will have lower 
rates of employee violence-related injury.
    We will conduct face-to-face interviews with the nursing home 
administrators in 40 nursing homes (20 in New Jersey and 20 in 
Virginia) who are in charge of overseeing compliance efforts. The 
purpose of the interviews is to measure compliance to the state 
regulations: Violence prevention policies, reporting systems for 
violent events, violence prevention committee, written violence 
prevention plan, violence risk assessments, post incident response and 
violence prevention training. A contractor will conduct the interviews.
    The table below shows the estimated annualized burden hours. Twenty 
respondents (nursing home administrators) will be interviewed each 
year. This will include 10 respondents from Virginia and 10 respondents 
from New Jersey. The abstraction form and the committee chair interview 
form will be used during each interview. Each

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form will take approximately one hour which results in 20 burden hours 
each. The total estimated and time-related burden is 40 hours.
    There are no costs to respondents other than their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden
          Type of respondents                   Form name            Number of     responses per   per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent       (in hrs.)
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Nursing Home Administrator............  Evaluation of Nursing                 20               1               1
                                         Home Workplace Violence
                                         Prevention Program:
                                         Abstraction Form.
Nursing Home Administrator............  Committee Chair                       20               1               1
                                         Interview.
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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. 2015-27301 Filed 10-26-15; 8:45 am]
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