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This revision to 0920–0821 

incorporates burden estimates provided 

for the emergency information 

collection 0920–1031 and 0920–1034, 

which have been updated and 

annualized. The total additional burden 

requested for this revision is 105,571 

respondents and 85,063 burden hours. 

The estimated total burden for 0920– 

0821 is 109,429 respondents and 85,382 

burden hours. There is no burden to 

respondents other than their time. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Respondent Form Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in minutes) 

Traveler ............... Airline Travel Illness or Death Investigation Form ..................................... 1,626 1 5/60 

Traveler ............... Maritime Conveyance Illness or Death Investigation Form ....................... 1,873 1 5/60 

Traveler ............... Land Travel Illness or Death Investigation Form ....................................... 259 1 5/60 

Traveler ............... Ebola Entry Screening Risk Assessment Form (Ill traveler interview: 

English, French, Arabic, or other as needed).

100 1 15/60 

Traveler ............... United States Travel Health Declaration (English: Hard Copy, fillable 

PDF, electronic portal).

49,238 1 15/60 

Traveler ............... United States Travel Health Declaration (French translation guide) ......... 1,586 1 15/60 

Traveler ............... United States Travel Health Declaration (Arabic translation guide) .......... 176 1 15/60 

Traveler ............... Ebola Entry Screening Risk Assessment Form (English hard copy) ........ 3,447 1 15/60 

Traveler ............... Ebola Entry Screening Risk Assessment French translation guide .......... 111 1 15/60 

Traveler ............... Ebola Entry Screening Risk Assessment Arabic translation guide ........... 13 1 15/60 

Traveler ............... IVR Active Monitoring Survey (English: Recorded) ................................... 49,238 21 4/60 

Traveler ............... IVR Active Monitoring Survey (French: Recorded) ................................... 1,586 21 4/60 

Traveler ............... IVR Active Monitoring: Arabic translation assistance ................................ 176 21 4/60 

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. 2015–02624 Filed 2–9–15; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–15–15EC] 

Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork 

Reduction Act Review 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) has submitted the 

following information collection request 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for 

the proposed information collection is 

published to obtain comments from the 

public and affected agencies. 

Written comments and suggestions 

from the public and affected agencies 

concerning the proposed collection of 

information are encouraged. Your 

comments should address any of the 

following: (a) 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; (b) Evaluate the 

accuracy of the agencies estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; (d) 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 submission of 

responses; and (e) Assess information 

collection costs. 

To request additional information on 

the proposed project or to obtain a copy 

of the information collection plan and 

instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or 

send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Written 

comments and/or suggestions regarding 

the items contained in this notice 

should be directed to the Attention: 

CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management 

and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or 

by fax to (202) 395–5806. Written 

comments should be received within 30 

days of this notice. 

Proposed Project 

Improving Organizational 

Management and Worker Behavior 

through Worksite Communication— 

New—National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

NIOSH, under Public Law 91–596, 

Sections 20 and 22 (Section 20–22, 

Occupational Safety and Health Act of 

1977) has the responsibility to conduct 

research relating to innovative methods, 

techniques, and approaches dealing 

with occupational safety and health 

problems. 

This research assesses best practices 

for communicating and employing a 

strategic health and safety management 

system (HSMS) to facilitate workers’ 

health and safety behaviors, including 

ways that lateral communication from 

management influences worker 

perceptions and behaviors. Currently, 

ambivalence exists about how to 

strategically communicate aspects of an 

HSMS top-down in the mining industry. 

Research indicates that, to answer 

questions about effectively using an 

HSMS to improve safety, research needs 

to follow a sample of workplaces over 

time, measuring the introduction or 

utilization of an HSMS and then 

measuring outcomes of interest at the 

workplace level and worker level. 

Therefore, analyzing workers’ 

perceptions of the organization’s HSMS, 

leaders’ implementation of the 

organization’s HSMS, and 

communication gaps between these two 

groups, may provide more insight into 

the best, most feasible practices and 

approaches to worker H&S performance 

within a system. This project is 

initiating such an approach by 

implementing a series of multilevel 

intervention (MLI) case studies that 

assess the utility of a safety system that 

includes aspects of both safety 

management on the organizational level 

and behavior-based safety on the worker 

level. By studying these levels 

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intervention to bridge these two groups 

together to improve safety, the 

communication practices within an 

HSMS may be enhanced. 

NIOSH proposes a 3 year approval for 

a project that seeks to empirically 

understand what HSMS communication 

practices are important for mine worker 

H&S and how those practices can be 

developed, implemented, and 

maintained over time via desired 

communication from mine site 

leadership. The following questions 

guide this study: 

What impact does the MLI 

communication model that was 

designed and implemented have on: (1) 

Workers’ health/safety behaviors, 

including those that lower exposure to 

dust; (2) workers’ perceptions of their 

organization’s values; and (3) changes in 

managers’ strategic HSMS 

communication and implementation 

with workers to facilitate health/safety 

performance, including those that lower 

exposure to dust. 

To answer the above questions, 

NIOSH researchers developed a 

multilevel intervention (MLI) that 

focuses on both management and 

workers’ communication about, and 

subsequent actions taken, to reduce 

respirable dust exposure over time. This 

MLI will inform how leadership 

communicates to their employees and 

what affect(s) this communication has 

on individual behavior such as 

corrective dust actions taken by 

workers. By assessing the ongoing 

safety/health interactions between 

individual workers and their 

organizational capacities (i.e. levels of 

leadership and management of safety), 

and how these interactions influence 

and shape personal H&S performance, 

we can better understand what aspects 

of both systems need attention in a 

merged, more balanced and 

comprehensive system of health and 

safety management (DeJoy, 2005). 

Specifically, this project is using mine 

technology, the Helmet-CAM, as a 

communication medium to help merge 

these two worksite systems. Previous 

research indicates that the use of 

information technology can enhance 

lateral and horizontal communication 

within organizations, showing support 

for using the Helmet-CAM in the current 

study (Hinds & Kiesler, 1995). NIOSH 

researchers can analyze what and how 

communication practices should be 

implemented to influence worker 

perceptions of their organization’s H&S 

values and how this impacts their 

subsequent H&S behavior. Eventually, 

practices used to influence behavior 

related to dust control can be 

extrapolated to inform ways to 

communicate about and manage 

additional health/safety problems 

within the industry via an HSMS as 

implemented by site leaders. 

The Helmet-CAM incorporates video 

footage and real-time dust 

measurements of workers while 

performing their job duties and tasks in 

various locations throughout the 

workday. This technology has been a 

viable assessment tool to provide a 

comparison of where and when miners 

are exposed to their highest respirable 

dust concentrations. As a result, 

Helmet-CAM technology is being 

employed at many mines as a way to 

identify dust exposures of workers and 

to help reduce dust hazards in the 

environment. However, we do not yet 

know how mine site management is 

using, if at all, this technology to 

communicate with workers about their 

personal health and safety behaviors. 

Discussions about the tasks workers 

perform when exposure levels are high 

and what actions they can take to 

reduce their dust exposure may be 

valuable to the industry in helping 

advance the way engineering-control 

technology is used from a behavioral 

vantage point as well. 

Previous research (Yorio et al. 2014) 

identified three areas that influence the 

relationship between the strategic 

HSMS and its overall success in 

implementing and encouraging worker 

behavior change: Worksite leadership, 

organizational values, and worker 

perceptions and interpretations of 

management. Data on these three 

contingencies are collected from the 

management and worker levels during 

three time points throughout a six-week 

intervention to assess the ongoing 

communication via the Helmet-CAM 

and effects of the communication on 

behavior. Data collection and analysis 

pertaining to these three areas may 

occur via a pre/post survey with 

workers and pre/mid/post interviews/

focus groups with workers and mine site 

leaders, some of which include dialogue 

around Helmet-CAM footage as 

provided by the workers who choose to 

participate. 

NIOSH proposes this intervention 

design at a minimum of three and no 

more than five industrial mineral metal/ 

nonmetal mine sites. All of the data 

collection instruments have been used 

in previous studies to examine worker 

and leadership variables and factors. 

Therefore, NIOSH knows that the data 

collection instruments are valid and 

reliable to use in studying the worker 

and leader levels simultaneously, 

within the same mine. Industrial 

mineral sites will be recruited who have 

inquired interest in learning how to use 

the Helmet-CAM on their site and/or 

interest in improving their site wide 

communication efforts. Only a small 

sample of workers will participate at 

each mine site because of the time 

required for completion and to ensure 

the longitudinal data can be adequately 

collected over the six weeks. In other 

words, we would rather collect data 

multiple times with the same worker 

and have fewer participants than collect 

data from more workers but not have the 

ability to appropriately follow-up 

during the subsequent two visits. 

Data collection will take place with 

no more than 150 mine workers and 30 

mine site leaders over three years. The 

respondents targeted for this study 

includes any active mine worker and 

any active site leader at an industrial 

mineral metal/nonmetal mine. It is 

estimated that a sample of up to 150 

mine workers will participate in the 

intervention, which includes wearing 

the Helmet-CAM for a portion of their 

job tasks (no more than two hours total) 

during three time periods (when NIOSH 

is present during the field visit). In 

addition to wearing the Helmet-CAM, 

workers will be asked to complete a pre 

and post-test survey (∼15 minutes) and 

an interview during three time points 

throughout the study (∼30 minutes 

each). The interviews include a 

debriefing of Helmet-CAM footage with 

participants at various mining 

operations who agreed to participate. It 

also is estimated that a sample of up to 

30 mine site leaders will participate in 

interviews/focus groups about HSMS 

practices at the same participating 

mining operations. The interviews/focus 

groups also occur three times during 

each of the NIOSH field visits and will 

take no more than 45 minutes each. All 

participants will be between the ages of 

18 and 75, currently employed, and 

living in the United States. Participation 

will require no more than 4.5 hours of 

workers’ time over the six-week 

intervention and no more than 2.5 hours 

of site leaders’ time over the six-week 

intervention period. 

There are 278 total burden hours. 

There is no cost to respondents other 

than their time. 


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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondents Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Mine Site Leaders/Managers .......................... Mine Recruitment Script ................................. 10 1 5/60 

Pre/Mid/Post HSMS Interview/Focus Group 

Questions.

10 3 45/60 

Mine Worker .................................................... Mine Worker Recruitment Script .................... 50 1 5/60 

Mine Worker Survey ...................................... 50 2 15/60 

Pre/Mid/Post Behaviors and Helmet-CAM 

Interview Questions.

50 3 90/60 

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. 2015–02623 Filed 2–9–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–15–0572] 

Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork 

Reduction Act Review 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) has submitted the 

following information collection request 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for 

the proposed information collection is 

published to obtain comments from the 

public and affected agencies. 

Written comments and suggestions 

from the public and affected agencies 

concerning the proposed collection of 

information are encouraged. Your 

comments should address any of the 

following: (a) 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; (b) Evaluate the 

accuracy of the agencies estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; (d) 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 submission of 

responses; and (e) Assess information 

collection costs. 

To request additional information on 

the proposed project or to obtain a copy 

of the information collection plan and 

instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or 

send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Written 

comments and/or suggestions regarding 

the items contained in this notice 

should be directed to the Attention: 

CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management 

and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or 

by fax to (202) 395–5806. Written 

comments should be received within 30 

days of this notice. 

Proposed Project 

Health Message Testing System 

(HMTS)—(0920–0572, Expiration 

February 28, 2015)—Extension—Office 

of the Associate Director for 

Communication (OADC), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

Before CDC disseminates a health 

message to the public, the message 

always undergoes scientific review. 

However, even though the message is 

based on sound scientific content, there 

is no guarantee that the public will 

understand a health message or that the 

message will move people to take 

recommended action. Communication 

theorists and researchers agree that for 

health messages to be as clear and 

influential as possible, target audience 

members or representatives must be 

involved in developing the messages 

and provisional versions of the 

messages must be tested with members 

of the target audience. 

In the interest of timely health 

message dissemination, many programs 

forgo the important step of testing 

messages on dimensions such as clarity, 

salience, appeal, and persuasiveness 

(i.e., the ability to influence behavioral 

intention). Skipping this step avoids the 

delay involved in the standard OMB 

review process, but at a high potential 

cost. Untested messages can waste 

communication resources and 

opportunities because the messages can 

be perceived as unclear or irrelevant. 

Untested messages can also have 

unintended consequences, such as 

jeopardizing the credibility of Federal 

health officials. 

The Health Message Testing System 

(HMTS), a generic information 

collection, enables programs across CDC 

to collect the information they require 

in a timely manner to: 

• Ensure quality and prevent waste in 

the dissemination of health information 

by CDC to the public. 

• Refine message concepts and to test 

draft materials for clarity, salience, 

appeal, and persuasiveness to target 

audiences. 

• Guide the action of health 

communication officials who are 

responding to health emergencies, 

Congressionally-mandated campaigns 

with short timeframes, media-generated 

public concern, time-limited 

communication opportunities, trends, 

and the need to refresh materials or 

dissemination strategies in an ongoing 

campaign. 

Each testing instrument will be based 

on specific health issues or topics. 

Although it is not possible to develop 

one instrument for use in all instances, 

the same kinds of questions are asked in 

most message testing. This package 

includes generic questions and formats 

that can be used to develop health 

message testing data collection 

instruments. These include a list of 

screening questions, comprised of 

demographic and introductory 

questions, along with other questions 

that can be used to create a mix of 

relevant questions for each proposed 

message testing data collection method. 

However, programs may request to use 

additional questions if needed. 

Message testing questions will focus 

on issues such as comprehension, 

impressions, personal relevance, 

content and wording, efficacy of 

response, channels, and spokesperson/ 

sponsor. Such information will enable 

message developers to enhance the 


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