80 FR 39781 - Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 132 (July 10, 2015)

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FR Document		2015-16895

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 proposed extension of the information collection entitled Evaluating the Effectiveness of Occupational Safety and Health Program Elements in the Wholesale Retail Trade Sector. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health seeks to continue its scientific intervention effectiveness research to support the evidenced based prevention of occupational injuries and illnesses in the wholesale/retail sector.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-15-0949; Docket No. CDC-2015-0053]


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 proposed 
extension of the information collection entitled Evaluating the 
Effectiveness of Occupational Safety and Health Program Elements in the 
Wholesale Retail Trade Sector. The National

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Institute for Occupational Safety and Health seeks to continue its 
scientific intervention effectiveness research to support the evidenced 
based prevention of occupational injuries and illnesses in the 
wholesale/retail sector.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before September 8, 
2015.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0053 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

    Evaluating the Effectiveness of Occupational Safety and Health 
Program Elements in the Wholesale Retail Trade Sector OMB No. 0920-
0949, expires 10/31/2015)--Extension--National Institute for 
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The mission of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and 
Health (NIOSH) is to promote safety and health at work for all people 
through research and prevention. Under Public Law 91-596, sections 20 
and 22 (Section 20-22, Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970), 
NIOSH has the responsibility to conduct research to advance the health 
and safety of workers. In this capacity, NIOSH proposes to conduct a 
study to assess the effectiveness of occupational safety and health 
(OSH) program elements in the wholesale/retail trade (WRT) sector. An 
extension is being requested in order to allow for additional time to 
complete the study. Data has already been collected for the first year 
of the study. Additional time is being requested in order to collect 
the remaining data for the second and third year.
    Liberty Mutual has estimated direct workers compensation costs to 
industry in the United States in 2009 to be $50 billion. The WRT 
industry sector employs over 21 million workers or 19% of the workforce 
in private industry. In 2007, the majority of non-fatal injuries and 
illnesses involving days away from work in the WRT sector involved 
musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs, 29%) or slip/trip/falls (STFs, 22%). 
For this reason, major strategic NIOSH goals in the WRT sector are to 
reduce MSDs, STFs and other injuries/illnesses in part by assessing the 
effectiveness of occupational safety and health (OSH) programs designed 
to prevent these outcomes. There is some evidence that OSH prevention 
programs built on key elements (management leadership, employee 
participation, hazard identification and control, medical management, 
training, and program evaluation) reduce losses. However, little 
evidence exists on the relative effectiveness of program elements 
compared to each other. There is a need for research to develop 
reliable OSH program metrics and determine which elements have the 
greatest impact on injuries, illnesses and work disability. A renewed 
partnership between NIOSH and the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation 
(OBWC) a timely opportunity to conduct such research in a relevant and 
efficient manner.
    A collaborative study involving NIOSH and the OBWC will examine the 
association between survey-assessed OSH program elements 
(organizational policies, procedures, practices) and workers 
compensation (WC) injury/illness outcomes in a stratified sample of 
OBWC-insured wholesale/retail trade (WRT) firms. Crucial OSH program 
elements with particularly high impact on WC losses will be identified 
in this study and disseminated to the WRT sector. This study will 
provide important information that is not currently available elsewhere 
on the effectiveness of OSH programs for the WRT sector. This project 
fits the mission of CDC-NIOSH to conduct scientific intervention 
effectiveness research to support the evidenced based prevention of 
occupational injuries and illnesses.
    For this study, the target population includes United States WRT 
firms (North American Industry Classification System codes 42, 44, 45, 
45). The sampling frame includes OBWC-insured WRT firms in Ohio. The 
study sample includes OBWC-insured WRT firms who volunteer to 
participate in the OBWC-NIOSH research project.
    The proposed research involves a firm-level survey of a series of 
organizational metrics considered to be

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potential predictors of injury and illness WC claim rates and duration 
in a stratified sample of OBWC-insured WRT firms in Ohio. There are 
expected to be up to 4,404 participants per year; surveys will 
administered twice to the same firms in successive years (e.g. from 
January-December 2014 and again from January-December 2015).
    An individual responsible for the OSH program at each firm will be 
asked to complete survey that include a background section related to 
respondent and company demographics and a main section where 
individuals will be asked to evaluate organizational metrics related to 
their firm's OSH program. The firm-level survey data will be linked to 
five years of retrospective injury and illness WC claims data and two 
years of prospective injury and illness WC claims data from OBWC to 
determine which organizational metrics are related to firm-level injury 
and illness WC claim rates. A nested study will ask multiple 
respondents at a subset of 60 firms to participate by completing 
surveys. A five-minute interview will be conducted with a 10% sample of 
non-responders (up to 792 individuals).
    In order to maximize efficiency and reduce burden, a web-based 
survey is proposed for the majority (95%) of survey data collection. 
Collected information will be used to determine whether a significant 
relationship exists between self-reported firm OSH elements and firm WC 
outcomes while controlling for covariates. Once the study is completed, 
benchmarking reports about OSH elements that have the highest impact on 
WC losses in the WRT sector will be made available through the NIOSH-
OBWC internet sites and peer-reviewed publications.
    In summary, this study will determine the effectiveness of OSH 
program elements in the WRT sector and enable evidence-based prevention 
practices to be shared with the greatest audience possible. NIOSH 
expects to complete data collection in 2015. There is no cost to 
respondents other than their time.

                                                            Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                                             Number of    Average burden
               Type of respondent                               Form name                    Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                                                            respondents     respondent      (in hours)      (in hours)
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Safety and Health Managers in Wholesale/Retail   Occupational Safety and Health Program            4,404               1           20/60           1,468
 Trade (WRT) Firms in Ohio.                       Survey.
                                                 Informed Consent Form..................           4,404               1            2/60             147
                                                 Non Responder Interview................             792               1            5/60              66
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    Total Hours................................  .......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............           1,681
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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.
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the ABC, FoodNet, and Influenza is particularly suited to investigate; (2) following: academic institutions, local
portions of the EIP. maintain sufficient flexibility for health departments, public health and
Activities of the EIPs fall into the emergency response and new problems clinical laboratories, infection control
following general categories: (1) Active as they arise; (3) develop and evaluate professionals, and healthcare providers.
surveillance; (2) applied public health public health interventions to inform Frequency of reporting will be
epidemiologic and laboratory activities; public health policy and treatment determined as cases arise.
(3) implementation and evaluation of guidelines; (4) incorporate training as a
pilot prevention/intervention projects; key function; and (5) prioritize projects The addition of HAIC to the EIP
and (4) flexible response to public that lead directly to the prevention of increases the total estimated burden by
health emergencies. disease. Proposed respondents will 10,300 hours to 22, 755 hours. There is
Activities of the EIPs are designed to: include state health departments who no cost to respondents other than their
(1) Address issues that the EIP network may collaborate with one or more of the time.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of Avg. burden
Type of Number of responses
Form name per response
respondent respondents per (in hours)
respondent

State Health Department ........ ABCs Case Report Form ....................................................... 10 809 20/60
Invasive Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ABCs 10 609 20/60
Case Report Form.
ABCs Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Children Case 10 22 10/60
Report Form.
ABCs Non-Bacteremic Pneumococcal Disease Case Report 10 100 10/60
Form.
Neonatal Infection Expanded Tracking Form ........................ 10 37 20/60
ABCs Legionellosis Case Report Form ................................. 10 100 20/60
Campylobacter ....................................................................... 10 637 20/60
Cryptosporidium ..................................................................... 10 130 10/60
Cyclospora .............................................................................. 10 3 10/60
Listeria monocytogenes ......................................................... 10 13 20/60
Salmonella .............................................................................. 10 827 20/60
Shiga toxin producing E. coli ................................................. 10 90 20/60
Shigella ................................................................................... 10 178 10/60
Vibrio ...................................................................................... 10 20 10/60
Yersinia ................................................................................... 10 16 10/60
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome .................................................. 10 10 1
Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Project Case Report 10 400 15/60
Form.
Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Project Vaccination 10 100 5/60
Telephone Survey.
Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Project Vaccination 10 100 5/60
Telephone Survey Consent Form.
EIP site ................................... CDI Case Report Form .......................................................... 10 1650 20/60
CDI Treatment Form .............................................................. 10 1650 10/60
Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli Case Report Form ............. 10 500 20/60
Person in the community in- Screening Form ...................................................................... 600 1 5/60
fected with C. difficile (CDI
Cases).
Telephone interview ............................................................... 500 1 40/60
Total

Leroy A. Richardson, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, HUMAN SERVICES Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the its continuing efforts to reduce public
Associate Director for Science, Office of the Centers for Disease Control and burden and maximize the utility of
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention government information, invites the
Prevention. general public and other Federal
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continuing information collections, as
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for Public Comment and Act of 1995. This notice invites
Recommendations comment on the proposed extension of
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and the information collection entitled
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health Evaluating the Effectiveness of
and Human Services (HHS). Occupational Safety and Health
Program Elements in the Wholesale
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
Retail Trade Sector. The National

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potential predictors of injury and illness be linked to five years of retrospective whether a significant relationship exists
WC claim rates and duration in a injury and illness WC claims data and between self-reported firm OSH
stratified sample of OBWC-insured WRT two years of prospective injury and elements and firm WC outcomes while
firms in Ohio. There are expected to be illness WC claims data from OBWC to controlling for covariates. Once the
up to 4,404 participants per year; determine which organizational metrics study is completed, benchmarking
surveys will administered twice to the are related to firm-level injury and reports about OSH elements that have
same firms in successive years (e.g. from illness WC claim rates. A nested study the highest impact on WC losses in the
January–December 2014 and again from will ask multiple respondents at a WRT sector will be made available
January–December 2015). subset of 60 firms to participate by through the NIOSH–OBWC internet
An individual responsible for the completing surveys. A five-minute sites and peer-reviewed publications.
OSH program at each firm will be asked interview will be conducted with a 10% In summary, this study will determine
to complete survey that include a sample of non-responders (up to 792 the effectiveness of OSH program
background section related to individuals). elements in the WRT sector and enable
respondent and company demographics In order to maximize efficiency and evidence-based prevention practices to
and a main section where individuals reduce burden, a web-based survey is be shared with the greatest audience
will be asked to evaluate organizational proposed for the majority (95%) of possible. NIOSH expects to complete
metrics related to their firm’s OSH survey data collection. Collected data collection in 2015. There is no cost
program. The firm-level survey data will information will be used to determine to respondents other than their time.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Average
Number of
Type of Number of burden per Total burden
Form name responses per
respondent respondents response (in hours)
respondent (in hours)

Safety and Health Managers in Occupational Safety and Health 4,404 1 20/60 1,468
Wholesale/Retail Trade (WRT) Program Survey.
Firms in Ohio.
Informed Consent Form ................... 4,404 1 2/60 147
Non Responder Interview ................ 792 1 5/60 66

Total Hours ................................. .......................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 1,681

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Dates		Written comments must be received on or before September 8, 2015.
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]
FR Citation		80 FR 39781

80 FR 39781 - Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICESCenters for Disease Control and Prevention

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 132 (July 10, 2015)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention