82 FR 58448 - Safe + Sound Campaign; Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Approval of Information Collection (Paperwork) Requirements

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 237 (December 12, 2017)

Page Range		58448-58450
FR Document		2017-26719

OSHA solicits public comments concerning its proposal to the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of the information collection requirements specified in the Safe + Sound Campaign.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 237 (Tuesday, December 12, 2017)

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 237 (Tuesday, December 12, 2017)]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

[Docket No. OSHA-2017-0013]

Safe + Sound Campaign; Office of Management and Budget's (OMB)
Approval of Information Collection (Paperwork) Requirements

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public comments concerning its proposal to the
Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of the information
collection requirements specified in the Safe + Sound Campaign.

DATES: Comments must be submitted (postmarked, sent, or received) by
February 12, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Electronically: You may submit comments and attachments
electronically at http://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal
eRulemaking Portal. Follow the instructions online for submitting
comments.
Facsimile: If your comments, including attachments, are not longer
than 10 pages, you may fax them to the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-
1648.
Mail, hand delivery, express mail, messenger, or courier service:
When using this method, you must submit a copy of your comments and
attachments to the OSHA Docket Office, Docket No. OSHA-2017-0013,
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of
Labor, Room N-3653, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20210.
Deliveries (hand, express mail, messenger, and courier services) are
accepted during the Docket Office's normal business hours, 10:00 a.m.
to 3:00 p.m., ET.
Instructions: All submissions must include the Agency name and OSHA
docket number (OSHA-2017-0013) for the Information Collection Request
(ICR). All comments, including any personal information you provide,
are placed in the public docket without change, and may be made
available online at http://www.regulations.gov. For further information
on submitting comments, see the ``Public

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Participation'' heading in the section of this notice titled
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
Docket: To read or download comments or other materials in the
docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov or the OSHA Docket Office at
the address above. All documents in the docket (including this Federal
Register notice) are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index;
however, some information (e.g., copyrighted material) is not publicly
available to read or download from the website. All submissions,
including copyrighted material, are available for inspection and
copying at the OSHA Docket Office. You may also contact Theda Kenney at
the address below to obtain a copy of the ICR.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Theda Kenney or Charles McCormick,
Directorate of Standards and Guidance, OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor;
telephone (202) 693-2222.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent (i.e., employer) burden, conducts a
preclearance consultation program to provide the public with an
opportunity to comment on proposed and continuing information
collection requirements in accord with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program ensures that
information is in the desired format, reporting burden (time and costs)
is minimal, collection instruments are clearly understood, and OSHA's
estimate of the information collection burden is accurate. The
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (the OSH Act) (29 U.S.C. 651
et seq.) authorizes information collection by employers as necessary or
appropriate for enforcement of the OSH Act or for developing
information regarding the causes and prevention of occupational
injuries, illnesses, and accidents (29 U.S.C. 657). The OSH Act also
requires that OSHA obtain such information with minimum burden upon
employers, especially those operating small businesses, and to reduce
to the maximum extent feasible unnecessary duplication of efforts in
obtaining information (29 U.S.C. 657).
In 2016, OSHA established the Safe + Sound Campaign, a voluntary
effort to support the implementation of safety and health programs in
businesses throughout the United States. Outside stakeholders,
including safety and health professional organizations, trade and
industry associations, academic institutions, and state and federal
government agencies, collaborate with the Agency on the Campaign. The
Campaign includes periodic activities and events, ranging from regular
email updates to quarterly national webinars to local meetings to an
annual national stand down (i.e., Safe + Sound Week), designed to
increase overall employer and employee awareness and understanding of
safety and health programs and promote employer adoption of these
programs. OSHA believes widespread implementation of such programs will
substantially improve overall workplace safety and health conditions.

II. Special Issues for Comment

OSHA has a particular interest in comments on the following issues:
Whether the proposed information collection requirements
are necessary for the proper performance of the Agency's functions,
including whether the information is useful;
The accuracy of OSHA's estimate of the burden (time and
costs) of the information collection requirements, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
The quality, utility, and clarity of the information
collected; and
Ways to minimize the burden on employers who must comply.
For example, by using automated or other technological information
collection and transmission techniques.

III. Proposed Actions

OSHA is requesting that OMB approve the information collection
associated with Safe + Sound Campaign activities. This voluntary
information collection will include event registration and customer
feedback surveys for activities throughout the year (e.g., national
webinars, local events, a national stand down event), outreach phone
calls to recruit partners for the Campaign, and in-depth follow-up and
case study interviews of event participants. OSHA is proposing burden
hour estimate of seven hundred thirty-nine (739) hours. The Agency will
summarize the comments submitted in response to this notice and will
include this summary in the request to OMB.
Type of Review: New.
Title: Safe + Sound Campaign.
OMB Control Number: 1218-0NEW.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits.
Number of Respondents: 10,500.
Frequency of Responses: Annually.
Average Time per Response: Time varies per response.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 739.
Estimated Cost (Operation and Maintenance): $35,857.

IV. Public Participation--Submission of Comments on This Notice and
Internet Access to Comments and Submissions

You may submit comments in response to this document as follows:
(1) Electronically at http://regulations.gov, which is the Federal
eRulemaking Portal; (2) by facsimile (fax); or (3) by hard copy. All
comments, attachments, and other materials must identify the Agency
name and the OSHA docket number for the ICR (Docket No. OSHA-2017-
0013). You may supplement electronic submissions by uploading document
files electronically. If you wish to mail additional materials in
reference to an electronic or facsimile submission, you must submit
them to the OSHA Docket Office (see the section of this notice titled
ADDRESSES). The additional materials must clearly identify your
electronic comments by your name, date, and the docket number so the
Agency can attach them to your comments.
Because of security procedures, the use of regular mail may cause a
significant delay in the receipt of comments. For information about
security procedures concerning the delivery of materials by hand,
express delivery, messenger, or courier service, please contact the
OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-2350, (TTY (877) 889-5627).
Comments and submissions are posted without change at http://www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA cautions comments about submitting
personal information such as social security numbers and date of birth.
Although all submissions are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov
index, some information (e.g., copyrighted material) is not publically
available to read or download through this website. All submissions,
including copyrighted material, are available for inspection and
copying at the OSHA Docket Office. Information on using the http://www.regulations.gov website to submit comments and access the docket is
available at the website's ``User Tips'' link. Contact the OSHA Docket
Office for information about materials not available through the
website, and for assistance in using the internet to locate docket
submissions.

V. Authority and Signature

Loren Sweatt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health, directed the preparation of this notice. The
authority for this notice is the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3506

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et seq.) and Secretary of Labor's Order No. 1-2012 (77 FR 3912).

Signed at Washington, DC, on December 6, 2017.
Loren Sweatt,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
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that requested data can be provided in requests deal with program deliverables, Signed at Washington, DC, this 5th day of
the desired format, reporting burden program enhancements, operations, or December 2017.
(time and financial resources) is administrative issues, questions and Kimberley D. Hill,
minimized, collection instruments are dialogue are crucial to the successful Chief, Division of Management Systems,
clearly understood, and the impact of implementation of these programs. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
collection requirements on respondents II. Current Action
[FR Doc. 2017–26737 Filed 12–11–17; 8:45 am]
can be properly assessed. The Bureau of BILLING CODE 4510–24–P
Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting Office of Management and Budget
comments concerning the proposed clearance is being sought for the General
extension of ‘‘General Inquiries to State Inquiries to State Agency Contacts. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Agency Contacts.’’ A copy of the Information collected under this
proposed information collection request clearance is used to support the Occupational Safety and Health
(ICR) can be obtained by contacting the administrative and programmatic needs Administration
individual listed below in the of jointly conducted BLS/State Labor [Docket No. OSHA–2017–0013]
ADDRESSES section of this notice. Market Information and Occupational
DATES: Written comments must be Safety and Health Statistics cooperative Safe + Sound Campaign; Office of
submitted to the office listed in the statistical programs. Management and Budget’s (OMB)
ADDRESSES section of this notice on or III. Desired Focus of Comments Approval of Information Collection
before February 12, 2018. (Paperwork) Requirements
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Erin particularly interested in comments AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health
Good, BLS Clearance Officer, Division that: Administration, Labor.
of Management Systems, Bureau of • Evaluate whether the proposed ACTION: Request for public comment.
Labor Statistics, Room 4080, 2 collection of information is necessary
Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, for the proper performance of the SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public
DC 20212. Written comments also may functions of the agency, including comments concerning its proposal to the
be transmitted by fax to 202–691–5111 whether the information will have Office of Management and Budget’s
(this is not a toll free number). practical utility. (OMB) approval of the information
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin • Evaluate the accuracy of the collection requirements specified in the
Good, BLS Clearance Officer, 202–691– agency’s estimate of the burden of the Safe + Sound Campaign.
7763 (this is not a toll free number). (See proposed collection of information, DATES: Comments must be submitted
ADDRESSES section.) including the validity of the (postmarked, sent, or received) by
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: methodology and assumptions used. February 12, 2018.
• Enhance the quality, utility, and ADDRESSES: Electronically: You may
I. Background clarity of the information to be submit comments and attachments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) collected. electronically at http://
awards funds to State agencies in the 50 • Minimize the burden of the www.regulations.gov, which is the
States, the District of Columbia, Puerto collection of information on those who Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the
Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands, are to respond, including through the instructions online for submitting
hereinafter referred to as the ‘‘States’’) in use of appropriate automated, comments.
order to jointly conduct BLS/State Labor electronic, mechanical, or other Facsimile: If your comments,
Market Information and Occupational technological collection techniques or including attachments, are not longer
Safety and Health Statistics cooperative other forms of information technology, than 10 pages, you may fax them to the
statistical programs, which themselves e.g., permitting electronic submissions OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693–1648.
have been approved by OMB separately, of responses. Mail, hand delivery, express mail,
as follows: Type of Review: Extension of a messenger, or courier service: When
Current Employment Statistics 1220–0011
currently approved collection. using this method, you must submit a
Local Area Unemployment Statistics 1220– Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics. copy of your comments and attachments
0017 Title: General Inquiries to State to the OSHA Docket Office, Docket No.
Occupational Employment Statistics 1220– Agency Contacts. OSHA–2017–0013, Occupational Safety
0042 OMB Number: 1220–0168. and Health Administration, U.S.
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal Department of Labor, Room N–3653,
Report 1220–0012 Government. 200 Constitution Avenue NW,
Annual Refiling Survey 1220–0032 Total Respondents: 54.
Labor Market Information Cooperative Frequency: As needed. Washington, DC 20210. Deliveries
Agreement 1220–0079 Total Responses: 23,890. (hand, express mail, messenger, and
Multiple Worksite Report 1220–0134 Average Time per Response: 40 courier services) are accepted during the
Annual Survey of Occupational Injuries and minutes. Docket Office’s normal business hours,
Illnesses 1220–0045 Estimated Total Burden Hours: 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., ET.
Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries 1220– 15,927. Instructions: All submissions must
0133 Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): include the Agency name and OSHA
BLS/OSHS Federal State Cooperative $0. docket number (OSHA–2017–0013) for
Agreement 1220–0149 Total Burden Cost (operating/ the Information Collection Request
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To ensure the timely flow of maintenance): $0. (ICR). All comments, including any
information and to be able to evaluate Comments submitted in response to personal information you provide, are
and improve the BLS/State cooperative this notice will be summarized and/or placed in the public docket without
programs’ management and operations, included in the request for Office of change, and may be made available
it is necessary to conduct ongoing Management and Budget approval of the online at http://www.regulations.gov.
communications between the BLS and information collection request; they also For further information on submitting
its State partners. Whether information will become a matter of public record. comments, see the ‘‘Public

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et seq.) and Secretary of Labor’s Order The Minnesota State Plan was performance or structure of the plan.
No. 1–2012 (77 FR 3912). initially approved under Section 18(b) Federal OSHA also covers Federal
Signed at Washington, DC, on December 6, of the OSHA Act. 38 FR 15077 (June 8, Government employers. Additionally,
2017. 1973). The State Plan later received final Federal OSHA covers the United States
Loren Sweatt, approval. 50 FR 30832 (July 30, 1985). Postal Service (USPS). 65 FR 36622
The Minnesota State Plan is (June 9, 2000).
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health. administered by the Minnesota
Department of Labor and Industry, Authority and Signature
[FR Doc. 2017–26719 Filed 12–11–17; 8:45 am]
Minnesota Occupational Safety and Loren Sweatt, Deputy Assistant
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Health Administration (MNOSHA). Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Under the Plan, MNOSHA covers state Safety and Health, U.S. Department of
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR and local government employers and Labor, authorized the preparation of this
private-sector employers with certain notice. OSHA is issuing this notice
Occupational Safety and Health exceptions. Originally, one of the under the authority specified by section
Administration exceptions was employment at the Twin 18 of the Occupational Safety and
Cities Army Ammunition Plant, which Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 667),
[Docket No. OSHA–2017–0011] Federal OSHA covered because the Secretary of Labor’s Order No. 1–2012
United States had exclusive federal (77 FR 3912), and 29 CFR parts 1902
Minnesota State Plan; Changes in jurisdiction over the site. 50 FR 30832 and 1953.
Level of Federal Enforcement: (July 30, 1985). Later, another exception Signed in Washington, DC, on December 1,
Employment on Indian Reservations was added for tribal and private-sector 2017.
and Twin Cities Army Ammunition employment within any Indian Loren Sweatt,
Plant, and Coverage Clarifications reservation in the State, which Federal
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
OSHA also covered. 61 FR 36824 (July Occupational Safety and Health.
AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 15, 1996).
Administration (OSHA), Department of [FR Doc. 2017–26676 Filed 12–11–17; 8:45 am]
With the decommissioning and
Labor. removal of the Twin Cities Army BILLING CODE 4510–26–P

ACTION: Notice. Ammunition Plant, MNOSHA requested
that the exception to the State Plan’s
SUMMARY: This document gives notice of coverage for the plant be eliminated. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
OSHA’s approval of changes to the State The land on which the plant stood was
of Minnesota’s Occupational Safety and Occupational Safety and Health
transferred to the county and as such, Administration
Health State Plan that specify that non- private-sector employment on this land
Indian private- sector employment would fall under the State Plan’s area of [Docket No. OSHA–2011–0057]
within an Indian reservation or on lands coverage. However, Federal OSHA
held in trust by the Federal continues to cover employment on land Excavations (Design of Cave-in
Government, and employment on land adjacent to the land transferred to the Protection Systems); Extension of the
formerly occupied by the Twin Cities county because that adjacent land Office of Management and Budget’s
Army Ammunition Plant, are included continues to be under exclusive federal (OMB) Approval of Information
in its State Plan, and that make other jurisdiction. Federal OSHA granted this Collection (Paperwork) Requirements
minor coverage clarifications. request. AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health
DATES: Applicable Date: December 12, MNOSHA also requested that the Administration (OSHA), Labor.
2017. exception to the State Plan for tribal and
private-sector employment on Indian ACTION: Request for public comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For reservations and lands held in trust by
press inquiries, contact Francis SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public
the Federal Government be changed so comments concerning its proposal to
Meilinger, Director, OSHA Office of that MNOSHA could cover non-Indian
Communications, U.S. Department of extend OMB approval of the
private-sector employment in these information collection requirements
Labor; telephone: (202) 693–1999; areas. Federal OSHA continues to cover
email: meilinger.francis2@dol.gov. contained in the Standard on
establishments owned or operated by Excavations (Design of Cave-in
For general and technical information, Indian tribes or by enrolled members of
contact Douglas J. Kalinowski, Director, Protection Systems).
Indian tribes. This approach to coverage
OSHA Directorate of Cooperative and is consistent with case law on federal DATES: Comments must be submitted
State Programs, U.S. Department of and state authority over Indian lands. (postmarked, sent, or received) by
Labor; telephone: (202) 693–2200; Federal OSHA granted this request. February 12, 2018.
email: kalinowski.doug@dol.gov. These changes are reflected on the ADDRESSES:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 18 Federal OSHA web page for MNOSHA, Electronically: You may submit
of the Occupational Safety and Health http://www.osha.gov/dcsp/osp/ comments and attachments
Act of 1970, 29 U.S.C. 667 (OSH Act), stateprogs/minnesota.html. In addition, electronically at http://
provides that States that wish to assume that web page was updated to include www.regulations.gov, which is the
responsibility for developing and two longstanding coverage features of Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the
enforcing their own occupational safety the Minnesota State Plan which are also instructions online for submitting
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and health standards may do so by common to other State Plans. 50 FR comments.
submitting and obtaining federal 30832 (July 30, 1985). Federal OSHA Facsimile: If your comments,
approval of a State Plan. State Plan covers any hazard, industry, including attachments, are not longer
approval occurs in stages that include geographical area, operation or facility than 10 pages, you may fax them to the
initial approval under Section 18(c) of over which the State is unable to OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693–1648.
the Act and, ultimately, final approval effectively exercise jurisdiction for Mail, hand delivery, express mail,
under Section 18(e). reasons unrelated to the required messenger, or courier service: When

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Action		Request for public comment.
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Contact		Theda Kenney or Charles McCormick, Directorate of Standards and Guidance, OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor; telephone (202) 693-2222.
FR Citation		82 FR 58448

82 FR 58448 - Safe + Sound Campaign; Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Approval of Information Collection (Paperwork) Requirements

DEPARTMENT OF LABOROccupational Safety and Health Administration

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 237 (December 12, 2017)

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration