[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 78 (Tuesday, April 23, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16862-16863]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-08146]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30-Day-19-19BX]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has submitted the information
collection request titled Understanding How Discounting Affects
Decision Making and Adoption of Prevention Through Design Solutions to
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. CDC
previously published a ``Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public
Comment and Recommendations'' notice on December 10, 2018 to obtain
comments from the public and affected agencies. CDC received no
comments related to the previous notice. This notice serves to allow an
additional 30 days for public and affected agency comments.
CDC will accept all comments for this proposed information
collection project. The Office of Management and Budget is particularly
interested in comments that:
(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]. Direct written comments
and/or suggestions regarding the items contained in this notice to the
Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th
Street NW, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Provide
written comments within 30 days of notice publication.
Proposed Project
Understanding How Discounting Affects Decision Making and Adoption
of Prevention Through Design Solutions--New--National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
As mandated in the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (Pub.
L. 91-596), the mission of NIOSH is to conduct research and
investigations on occupational safety and health. This project will
focus on understanding the decision-making processes of small wholesale
and small retail businesses in regards to the adoption of fall-
prevention solutions. Slips, trips, and falls are major sources of
workplace injury across all industry sectors and represent a
significant burden. In the wholesale and retail trade sectors, slips,
trips, and falls account for 25% of all reported injuries. By
definition, small businesses employ fewer numbers of people, therefore
a slip, trip, or fall resulting in an injury is less likely to occur in
any given establishment. Small business employers may underestimate the
risks associated with occupational slips, trips, and falls because they
have not experienced them and therefore do not take the necessary steps
to prevent them.
One of the best ways to prevent and control occupational injuries,
illnesses, and fatalities is to ``design out'' or minimize hazards and
risks. NIOSH's Prevention Through Design Initiative focuses on this
concept through the inclusion of prevention considerations in all
designs that impact workers. Although employers' decisions can lead to
the successful implementation of Prevention Through Design, fall-
prevention solutions are not well understood. More information is
needed to better understand the motivational, social, and
organizational factors that affect employers' decisions to adopt fall-
prevention solutions. This project will combine traditional surveys
with behavioral economic methodologies to understand the decision-
making processes related to the adoption of fall-prevention solutions.
By using behavioral economic principles and methods, this study will
pose hypothetical, but realistic, scenarios to small business employers
to assess the influence of several factors on the patterns of
decisions. One of the goals of the study is to assess the subjective
value of fall-prevention solutions based on their costs and effort
required to use them. To quantify the subjective value
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of fall-prevention solutions, this project will use the behavioral
economic principles to assess the trade-offs small business owners make
among the cost of fall prevention solutions, the amount of effort
require to assemble them, and the amount of time they take to assemble.
One of the behavioral economic principles is discounting, in which the
value of a product or outcome decreases as the cost, effort, or delay
associated with it increases. For example, small-business owners may
``discount'' the value of a fall-prevention solution if it requires
great effort to assemble.
The survey will include instruments to obtain demographic
information (age, gender, income, etc.), organizational safety
information (e.g., ``Has someone at your place of work ever been
injured?''), and behavioral economic discounting assessments. For the
behavioral economic questions in the survey, participants will be asked
to make choices about hypothetical, but realistic, scenarios that
assess the influence of several factors on the patterns of decision-
making. To date, no study has quantitatively assessed the safety-
related decision-making processes of small business employers from a
behavioral economic perspective. Previous studies in this area consist
of qualitative studies of some factors that affect occupational safety
and health of small businesses. This study will address a knowledge gap
in the professional and scientific literature by contributing
quantitative data to a problem that has been overlooked. The results
for this study are meant for theory development and are not intended to
be nationally representative.
The sample size for this survey will be 100 small business
employers in the wholesale or retail trade sectors. This sample size is
based on a power analysis which indicated that 100 respondents would be
sufficient to detect any correlations between the organizational or
demographic variables and the behavioral economic measures of decision
making. Each web-based survey will take approximately 30 minutes to
complete, resulting in an annualized burden estimate of 50 hours. There
is no cost to respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per
Type of respondents Instrument respondents responses per response (in
respondent hours)
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Small business employers.............. Discounting Survey...... 100 1 30/60
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2019-08146 Filed 4-22-19; 8:45 am]
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