[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 67 (Wednesday, April 8, 2015)]

[Notices]

[Pages 18844-18846]

From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [http://www.gpo.gov/]

[FR Doc No: 2015-08026]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-15-15XT;Docket No. CDC-2015-0017]

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 Enhancing Mine 

Workers' Abilities to Identify Hazards at Sand, Stone, and Gravel (SSG) 

Mines. The objective of this project is to characterize SSG mine 

workers ability to recognize worksite hazards, to understand how this 

ability relates to perceived and measured risk as well as to other 

factors internal and external to the SSG mine worker.

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

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

0017 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., MSD74, 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., MSD74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: omb@cdc.gov.

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 

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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

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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

 Enhancing Mine Workers' Abilities to Identify Hazards at Sand, 

Stone, and Gravel Mines--New--National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

(CDC).

Background and Brief Description

 NIOSH, under Pub. L. 91-173 as amended by Pub. L. 95-164 (Federal 

Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977), and Pub. L. 109-236 (Mine 

Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006) has the 

responsibility to conduct research to improve working conditions and to 

prevent accidents and occupational diseases in underground coal and 

metal/nonmetal mines in the U.S.

 Hazard recognition is only the first step to a safe work 

environment. A miner must be able to identify a hazard, recognize the 

risk associated with the hazard, and then make a decision of how to 

mitigate the risk and perform the task safely. Risk is defined as the 

combination of the likelihood an event will occur and the adverse 

consequences of that event (Brown & Groeger, 1988). Risk perception, 

the recognition of the risk inherent in a situation, influences 

decision making with regards to job safety (Hunter, 2002). Being able 

to recognize worksite hazards and then accurately perceive the 

associated risk are critical skills that lead to the work behavior 

decision-making process that is used to eliminate or reduce mining 

hazards related to operations and maintenance of machinery, operation 

of powered haulage, material handling, etc. that can result in injury 

or death.

 Hazard recognition is integral to risk perception, situational 

awareness, and decision making--that is, if the mine worker is unable 

to recognize worksite hazards, then steps cannot be taken to eliminate 

or mitigate them. Thus, the mine worker must first be able to recognize 

that a hazard is present in the environment and then understand the 

risk the hazard poses to their safety and health in order to make the 

best decision possible about how to deal with the hazard. Hazard 

recognition is a necessary skill for all mine workers; therefore, a 

better understanding of the hazard recognition process within the 

mining environment is a critical need that this research will fulfill 

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for the industry.

 Given the aforementioned, the objective of the project is to 

characterize SSG mine workers' ability to recognize worksite hazards, 

to understand how this ability relates to perceived and measured risk 

as well as to other factors internal and external to the SSG mine 

worker.

 In order to determine how SSG mine workers' recognize and 

understand the risk associated with mine site hazards, NIOSH will 

conduct a laboratory-based experimental research study. Throughout the 

laboratory study, participants will wear a light weight eye-tracking 

system. Eye-movements will be collected throughout the task so that 

search patterns can be mapped during analysis to determine differences 

based on level of experience. NIOSH will also collect identification 

accuracy data to determine whether level of experience affects the 

number of hazards identified.

 NIOSH will collect additional measures related to perceived risk 

and risk tolerance. Researchers will assess perceived risk using a Risk 

Assessment measure which has three parts: (1) An overall evaluation of 

risk level; (2) an evaluation of accident severity; and (3) an 

evaluation of risk probability. This will be done for each hazard 

included in the study.

 Researchers will assess Risk Tolerance in two ways: (1) Through the 

use of the Risk Propensity Scale (Meertens & Lion, 2008) and (2) 

through the use of Risk Tolerance Workplace Scenarios (Lehmann, Haight, 

& Michael, 2009). NIOSH will also collect qualitative data through the 

use of open-ended interview questions.

 NIOSH will collect data from SSG mine workers, SSG safety 

professionals, and students knowledgeable of safety and health issues 

at SSG mine sites but who have limited work experience on a mine site. 

The purposes of collecting data from these three groups of participants 

are to identify differences in hazard recognition abilities and 

determine how these abilities change--and whether they change--with 

level of experience and amount of experience with hazards at SSG mine 

sites.

 The total estimated burden hours are 160. There are no costs to 

respondents other than their time.

 Estimated Annualized Burden Hours

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 Number Avg. burden

 Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden

 respondents respondent (in hrs.) (in hrs.)

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Mine Employee................. Prescreening 45 1 15/60 11

 Questionnaire.

Safety Professional........... Prescreening 20 1 15/60 5

 Questionnaire.

Student....................... Prescreening 20 1 15/60 5

 Questionnaire.

Mine Employee................. Informed Consent 30 1 6/60 3

Safety Professional........... Informed Consent 15 1 6/60 2

Student....................... Informed Consent 15 1 6/60 2

Mine Employee................. Demographic 30 1 6/60 3

 Questionnaire.

Safety Professional........... Demographic 15 1 6/60 2

 Questionnaire.

Student....................... Demographic 15 1 6/60 2

 Questionnaire.

Mine Employee................. Experimental 30 1 60/60 30

 Task.

Safety Professional........... Experimental 15 1 1 15

 Task.

Student....................... Experimental 15 1 1 15

 Task.

Mine Employee................. Risk Assessment 30 1 20/60 10

 Measure.

Safety Professional........... Risk Assessment 15 1 20/60 5

 Measure.

Student....................... Risk Assessment 15 1 20/60 5

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 Measure.

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Mine Employee................. Risk Propensity 30 1 6/60 3

 Scale.

Safety Professional........... Risk Propensity 15 1 6/60 2

 Scale.

Student....................... Risk Propensity 15 1 6/60 2

 Scale.

Mine Employee................. Mine Specific 30 1 6/60 3

 Risk Tolerance

 Measure.

Safety Professional........... Mine Specific 15 1 6/60 2

 Risk Tolerance

 Measure.

Student....................... Mine Specific 15 1 6/60 2

 Risk Tolerance

 Measure.

Mine Employee................. Open Ended 30 1 30/60 15

 Questions.

Safety Professional........... Open Ended 15 1 30/60 8

 Questions.

Student....................... Open Ended 15 1 30/60 8

 Questions.

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 Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 160

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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. 2015-08026 Filed 4-7-15; 8:45 am]

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