[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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