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improvements that can be achieved 

through population-based and 

individual actions, and systems-based, 

environmental, health-service, or policy 

interventions. 

3. Objectives should drive actions that 

will work toward the achievement of the 

proposed targets (defined as quantitative 

values to be achieved by the year 2020). 

4. Objectives should be useful and 

reflect issues of national importance. 

Federal agencies, states, localities, nongovernmental organizations, and the 

public and private sectors should be 

able to use objectives to target efforts in 

schools, communities, work sites, health 

practices, and other environments. 

5. Objectives should be measurable 

and should address a range of issues, 

such as: Behavior and health outcomes; 

availability of, access to, and content of 

behavioral and health service 

interventions; socio-environmental 

conditions; and community capacity— 

directed toward improving health 

outcomes and quality of life across the 

life span. (Community capacity is 

defined as the ability of a community to 

plan, implement, and evaluate health 

strategies.) 

6. Continuity and comparability of 

measured phenomena from year to year 

are important, thus, when appropriate, 

retention of objectives from previous 

Healthy People iterations is encouraged. 

However, in instances where objectives 

and/or measures have proven ill-suited 

to the purpose or are inadequate, new 

improved objectives should be 

developed. Whether or not an objective 

has met its target in a previous Healthy 

People iteration should not be the sole 

basis for retaining or archiving an 

objective. 

7. The objectives should be supported 

by the best available scientific evidence. 

The objective selection and review 

processes should be flexible enough to 

allow revisions to objectives in order to 

reflect major updates or new knowledge. 

8. Objectives should address 

population disparities. These include 

populations categorized by race/

ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, 

disability status, sexual orientation, and 

geographic location. For particular 

health issues, additional special 

populations should be addressed, based 

on an examination of the available 

evidence on vulnerability, health status, 

and disparate care. 

9. Healthy People 2020, like past 

versions, is heavily data driven. Valid, 

reliable, nationally representative data 

and data systems should be used for 

Healthy People 2020 objectives. Each 

objective must have (1) a data source, or 

potential data source, identified, (2) 

baseline data and (3) assurance of at 

least one additional data point 

throughout the decade. 

Dated: October 7, 2014. 

Don Wright, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Office 

of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. 

[FR Doc. 2014–24927 Filed 10–17–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4150–32–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–15–15BM] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce public 

burden, 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. To 

request more information on the below 

proposed project or to obtain a copy of 

the information collection plan and 

instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send 

comments to Leroy A. Richardson, 1600 

Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA 

30333 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval. 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. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

Assessing the Impact of 

Organizational and Personal 

Antecedents on Proactive Health/Safety 

Decision Making—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 relates to the interplay 

of personal, organizational, and cultural 

influences on risk-taking and proactive 

decision-making behaviors among mine 

workers. Proactive behavior refers to 

taking initiative to improve current 

conditions, adapting to present 

conditions, being self-starting and 

taking charge, and overcoming barriers 

to being safer. However, the 

antecedents, or characteristics, that 

impact these behaviors are not well 

understood in mining. Understanding 

the degree to which antecedents 

influence decisions can inform the focus 

of future health and safety management 

interventions. 

NIOSH proposes a project that seeks 

to empirically understand the factors 

and conditions that contribute to mine 

workers’ safe decisions (or lack thereof) 

while completing job tasks. The 

following question guides this study: 

What are the most important 

organizational and personal antecedent 

characteristics needed to support 

worker health and safety (H&S) 

performance behaviors in the mining 

industry? 

To answer the above question, NIOSH 

researchers developed a 

psychometrically supported survey. 

Researchers identified seven worker 

perception-based ‘organizational values’ 

and four ‘personal characteristics’ that 

are presumed to be important in 

fostering H&S knowledge, motivation, 

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outcomes. Because these emergent, 

worker perception-based constructs 

have a theoretical and empirical history, 

psychometrically tested items exist for 

each of them. 

The organizational values found to 

positively impact proactive safety/

health behavior at work include: 

• Supervisor Support: The degree to 

which supervisors value workers’ 

contribution to the organization and 

care about their personal wellbeing. 

• Supervisory Detection of Safety 

Behaviors: The degree to which 

supervisors emphasize the health and 

safety of their workers during job tasks. 

• Organizational Detection of Safety 

Behaviors: The degree of priority 

assigned to safety within the 

organization. 

• Perception of Adequate Safety 

Training: The degree to which 

employees are provided occupational 

safety training that covers aspects of 

safety-related knowledge, competence, 

and behavior. 

• Employee Involvement: The degree 

to which the organization is willing to 

involve workers in decision-making 

processes about procedures that 

influence their work. 

• Vertical Communication: The 

degree to which downward sharing of 

safety information occurs as well as the 

ease with which workers can 

communicate with their supervisors and 

managers about workplace H&S issues. 

• Horizontal Communication: The 

degree to which employees 

communicate with and trust their 

coworkers. 

The personal characteristics found to 

influence safety/health proactive work 

behavior include: 

• Change Orientation: The degree to 

which an individual feels that he or she 

is personally obligated to bring about 

constructive change. 

• Locus of Control: The extent to 

which people attribute rewards at work 

to their own behavior. 

• Conscientiousness: The degree of 

self-discipline workers possess related 

to their safety/health work tasks. 

• Risk Propensity: The individuals’ 

general tendency to engage in risks/

risky situations at work. 

Even though all scales used to 

complete the survey were deemed valid, 

NIOSH researchers will revalidate each 

scale to ensure that measurement is 

valid. A quantitative approach, via a 

short survey, allows for prioritization, 

based on statistical significance, of the 

antecedents that have the most critical 

influence on proactive behaviors. Data 

collection will take place with 

approximately 800 mine workers over 

three years. The respondents targeted 

for this study include any active mine 

worker at a mine site, both surface and 

underground. It is estimated that a 

sample of up to 800 surveys will be 

collected from participants at various 

mining operations which have agreed to 

participate. 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 20 minutes of workers’ time 

(5 minutes for consent and 15 minutes 

for the survey). The total estimated 

annualized burden hours are 90. There 

is no cost to respondents other than 

their time. 

Upon collection of the data, it will be 

used to answer what organizational/

personal characteristics have the biggest 

impact on proactive and compliant 

health and safety behaviors. Dominance 

and relative weights analysis will be 

used as the data analysis method to 

statistically rank order the importance 

of predictors in numerous regression 

contexts. Safety proactive and safety 

compliance will serve as the dependent 

variables in these regression analyses, 

with the organizational and personal 

characteristics as independent variables. 

Findings will be used to improve the 

safety and health organizational values 

and focus of mine organizations, as 

executed through their health and safety 

management system for mitigating 

health and safety risks at their mine site. 

Specifically, if organizations are lacking 

in values that are of high importance 

among employees, site leadership 

knows where to focus new, innovative 

methods, techniques, and approaches to 

dealing with their occupational safety 

and health problems. Finally, the data 

can be directly compared to data from 

other mine organizations that are 

administered the same standardized 

methods to provide broader context for 

areas in which the mining industry can 

focus more attention if trying to 

encourage safer work behavior. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondent Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

hours 

Safety/health Mine Operator ............. Mine Recruitment Script ................... 10 1 5/60 1 

Mine Worker ...................................... Individual Miner Recruitment Script 266 1 5/60 22 

Mine Worker ...................................... Survey .............................................. 266 1 15/60 67 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 90 

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. 2014–24880 Filed 10–17–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30 Day–15–14KW] 

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 


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