[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]
 BILLING CODE 4163-18-P