81 FR 79488 - Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

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

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 219 (November 14, 2016)

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 Measuring Worker Well-being for Total Worker Health[supreg]. This project will provide a tool to measure worker well-being across a range of important domains. Measuring worker well-being is an important initial step towards improving workplace policies, programs, and practices to promote safety and health and prevent disease for employees.

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 219 (Monday, November 14, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79488-79489]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-27261]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-17-17BM; Docket No. CDC-2016-0102]


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 Measuring Worker 
Well-being for Total Worker Health[supreg]. This project will provide a 
tool to measure worker well-being across a range of important domains. 
Measuring worker well-being is an important initial step towards 
improving workplace policies, programs, and practices to promote safety 
and health and prevent disease for employees.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before January 13, 2017.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2016-
0102 by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.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

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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

Measuring Worker Well-being for Total Worker Health--New--National 
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)--Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    As described in the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (PL 
91-596), the mission of NIOSH is to conduct research and investigations 
on work-related disease and injury and to disseminate information for 
preventing identified workplace hazards (Sections 20 (a) (1) and (d), 
Attachment 1). NIOSH is requesting a one-year approval for this data 
collection.
    Measuring worker well-being is the first step towards improving 
workplace policies, programs, and practices to promote prevention of 
disease and injury.
    The Total Worker Health[supreg] Program within NIOSH has made 
worker well-being a key aspect of its mission. The Total Worker Health 
(TWH) Program encompasses policies, programs, and practices that 
integrate protection from work-related safety and health hazards with 
promotion of injury and illness prevention efforts to advance worker 
well-being. The goal of TWH is not only to prevent disease or injury, 
but also to promote a culture of safety and health and an enhancement 
of overall well-being.
    In order to promote and enhance worker well-being it is first 
necessary to develop and validate instruments aimed at measuring the 
concept. This study is intended to generate data that can be used to 
validate a worker well-being survey instrument through testing of its 
psychometric properties. The survey includes questions on five domains 
of worker well-being including: worker evaluation and experiences with 
work; workplace physical environment and safety climate; organizational 
policies and culture; worker health status; and experiences outside of 
work (external context).
    For this study, the survey instrument will be programmed into a 
web-based survey that will be administered online to an existing 
nationwide survey panel of employed adults (KnowledgePanel[supreg]) 
hosted by our vendor, GfK. De-identified data will be transmitted 
securely to RAND, and RAND researchers will analyze the data as a CDC 
contractor.
    The survey will be fielded to approximately 1,025 respondents in 
the GFK panel, and the expected burden per respondent for reading the 
email and completing the survey is 15 minutes or 0.25 hours of their 
time. This will be a one-time survey and panelists will not be asked to 
respond to this survey again in the future. The total estimated burden 
hours are 385 for reading the recruitment email and responding to the 
survey. There are no costs to the respondent other than their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
          Respondents               Form name        Number of     responses per   per  response   Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent       (in hrs.)       (in hrs.)
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GFK Panelists.................  Recruitment                1,540               1            5/60             128
                                 email.
GFK Panelists.................  Worker Well-               1,025               1           15/60             257
                                 being survey.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............             385
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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.
[FR Doc. 2016-27261 Filed 11-10-16; 8:45 am]
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