[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 26 (Thursday, February 7, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2512-2513]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-01335]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60-Day-19-1104; Docket No. CDC-2018-0114]
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 effort to reduce public burden and maximize the
utility of government information, invites the general public and other
Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a proposed and/or
continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed
information collection project titled Assessing the ``Impact of
Organizational and Personal Antecedents on Proactive Health/Safety
Decision Making''. This study seeks to empirically understand the
factors and conditions that contribute to mine workers' safe decisions
(or lack thereof) while completing job tasks.
DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before April 8, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2018-
0114 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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. CDC will post, without change, all relevant comments
to Regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all comments 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 Leroy A. Richardson, 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 the OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a
proposed data collection as described below.
The OMB is particularly interested in comments that will help:
1. 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;
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
4. 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
submissions of responses.
5. Assess information collection costs.
Proposed Project
Assessing the Impact of Organizational and Personal Antecedents on
Proactive Health/Safety Decision Making (OMB Control Number 0920-1104,
Expiration 2/28/2019) -- Extension--National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Background and Brief Description
NIOSH, under Public Law 91-596, Sections 20 and 22 (Section 20-22,
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1977) has the responsibility to
conduct research relating to innovative methods, techniques, and
approaches dealing with occupational safety and health problems.
This research relates to the interplay of personal and
organizational influences on risk-taking and proactive decision-making
behaviors among mine workers. The antecedents, or characteristics, that
impact these behaviors are not well understood in mining. Understanding
the degree to which antecedents influence at-risk decisions can inform
the focus of future health and safety management interventions.
NIOSH proposed a project that sought to empirically understand the
following:
(1) What are the most influential organizational antecedent
characteristics that support worker health and safety (H&S) performance
behaviors in the mining industry?
(2) What are the most influential personal antecedent
characteristics that support worker health and safety (H&S) performance
behaviors in the mining industry?
To answer the above questions, NIOSH researchers developed a
psychometrically supported survey. Researchers identified seven worker
perception-based `organizational values' and four `personal
characteristics' that are presumed to be important in fostering H&S
proactive behaviors. Because these emergent, worker perception-based
constructs have a theoretical and empirical history, psychometrically
tested items exist for each of them.
Upon approval of the previous ICR, which expires on February 28,
2019, recruitment and data collection occurred from February 2016 to
March 2018 with 2,683 mineworkers. The data was analyzed to answer the
organizational/personal characteristics that have the biggest impact on
proactive and compliant health and safety behaviors. Dominance and
relative weights analysis were used as the data analysis method to
statistically rank order the importance of predictors in numerous
regression contexts. Safety proactivity and safety compliance served as
the dependent variables in these regression analyses, with the
organizational and personal characteristics as independent variables.
Findings are being used to improve the safety and health
organizational values and focus of mine organizations,
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as executed through their health and safety management system for
mitigating health and safety risks at their mine site. Specifically, if
organizations were lacking in values that were of high importance among
employees, site leadership now knows where to focus new, innovative
methods, techniques, and approaches to dealing with their occupational
safety and health problems.
Finally, the data is being directly compared to data from other
mine organizations that administered the same standardized methods to
provide broader context for areas in which the mining industry can
focus more attention if trying to encourage safer work behavior.
Therefore, the purpose was not to isolate negative actions among
workers or mine management, rather the purpose was to determine what
areas of a health and safety management system mines can focus their
efforts to better support worker health and safety decision making.
Data collection took place with mine workers over the last three
years with minimal recruitment. The respondents targeted for this study
included any active mine worker at a mine site, both surface and
underground. All participants were between the ages of 18 and 75 and
currently employed. Upon consent from the mine, mine workers were asked
to complete the organizational health and safety survey.
In the time that this project has been open, there has been
extensive interest from companies. The demand is so great that
companies would like to continue distributing the survey. Even if NIOSH
does not use the data in their final data set to answer the research
questions posed, this effort is building good faith with industry
stakeholders and also allows an opportunity to collect data for other
research projects. No recruitment is being done for this effort, only
data is being collected as requested by mining companies who have
presence across the world. Therefore, we would like to keep this data
collection open for an additional one-year time period.
Participation will require no more than 20 minutes of workers' time
during one visit to the mine. There is no cost to respondents other
than their time. It is estimated, based on industry interest, that in
this one year period no more than 1,200 mineworkers will opt to
complete the survey and will be between the ages of 18 and 75.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hours) (in hours)
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Mine Worker.................................... Individual Miner Recruitment Script.... 1200 1 5/60 100
Mine Worker.................................... survey................................. 1200 1 15/60 300
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Total...................................... ....................................... .............. .............. .............. 400
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Acting Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2019-01335 Filed 2-6-19; 8:45 am]
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