[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 115 (Friday, June 14, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27806-27808]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-12537]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Information Collection Activities; Comment Request
AGENCY: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance
consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies
with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing
collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. This program helps to ensure that requested data can be
provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and financial
resources) is minimized, collection instruments are clearly understood,
and the impact of collection requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting
comments
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concerning the proposed revision of the ``Survey of Occupational
Injuries and Illnesses.'' A copy of the proposed information collection
request (ICR) can be obtained by contacting the individual listed below
in the ADDRESSES section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice on or before August 13, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080,
2 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20212. Written comments also
may be transmitted by fax to 202-691-5111 (this is not a toll free
number).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
202-691-7628 (this is not a toll free number). (See ADDRESSES section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Section 24(a) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970
requires the Secretary of Labor to develop and maintain an effective
program of collection, compilation, and analysis of statistics on
occupational injuries and illnesses. The Commissioner of Labor
Statistics has been delegated the responsibility for ``Furthering the
purpose of the Occupational Safety and Health Act by developing and
maintaining an effective program of collection, compilation, analysis
and publication of occupational safety and health statistics.'' The BLS
fulfills this responsibility, in part, by conducting the Survey of
Occupational Injuries and Illnesses in conjunction with participating
state statistical agencies. The BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and
Illnesses provides the Nation's primary indicator of the progress
towards achieving the goal of safer and healthier workplaces. The
survey produces the overall rate of occurrence of work injuries and
illnesses by industry which can be compared to prior years to produce
measures of the rate of change. These data are used to assess the
Nation's progress in improving the safety and health of America's work
places; to prioritize scarce federal and state resources; to guide the
development of injury and illness prevention strategies; and to support
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and state safety
and health standards and research. Data are essential for evaluating
the effectiveness of federal and state programs for improving work
place safety and health. For these reasons, it is necessary to provide
estimates separately for participating states.
II. Current Action
Office of Management and Budget clearance is being sought for the
Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. The survey measures the
overall rate of occurrence of work injuries and illnesses by industry
for private industry, state governments, and local governments. For the
more serious injuries and illnesses, those with days away from work
(DAFW), the survey provides detailed information on the injured/ill
worker (age, sex, race, industry, occupation, and length of service),
the time in shift, and the circumstances of the injuries and illnesses
classified by standardized codes (nature of the injury/illness, part of
body affected, primary and secondary sources of the injury/illness, and
the event or exposure which produced the injury/illness).
Beginning with the 2011 survey year, BLS began testing the
collection of case and demographic data for injury and illness cases
that require only days of job transfer or restriction (DJTR). The
purpose of this on-going pilot study is to evaluate collection of these
cases and to learn more about occupational injuries and illnesses that
resulted in days of job transfer or work restriction.
For survey year 2019, case circumstance and worker characteristics
for DJTR cases will be collected for the following six NAICS * industry
subsectors in private industry:
Crop production (NAICS 111)
Transportation equipment manufacturing (NAICS 336)
Food and beverage stores (NAICS 445)
Truck transportation (NAICS 484)
Amusement, gambling, and recreation industries (NAICS 713)
Food services and drinking places (NAICS 722)
BLS anticipates that survey year 2019 will be the last for this
pilot DJTR study, after which results will be assessed to determine how
best to implement the collection of these data along with days away
from work cases in future survey years. The BLS regards the collection
of these DJTR cases as significant in its coverage of the American
workforce.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is particularly interested in
comments that:
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.
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.
Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected.
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.
Title of Collection: Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses.
OMB Number: 1220-0045.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits; Not-for-profit
institutions; Farms; State, Local or Tribal Governments.
Respondent Burden Estimates
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Average time Estimated
Form Total Frequency Total per response total burden
respondents responses (minutes) hours
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BLS 9300.................... 232,400 Annually.......... 232,400 23.8125 92,234
Pre-notification Package.... * 86,200 Annually.......... 86,200 71.5726 102,826
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Totals.................. 232,400 Annually.......... 232,400 .............. 195,060
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* (86,200 of the 232,400 respondents).
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Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
approval of the information collection request; they also will become a
matter of public record.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 7th day of June 2019.
Mark Staniorski,
Chief, Division of Management Systems.
[FR Doc. 2019-12537 Filed 6-13-19; 8:45 am]
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