[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 161 (Friday, August 19, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51981-51982]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-21197]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60-Day-11-11JY]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects.
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call 404-639-5960
and send comments to Daniel Holcomb, CDC Reports Clearance Officer,
1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an e-mail to
[email protected].
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; and (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. Written comments should be received
within 60 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Barriers to Occupational Injury Reporting by Workers: A NEISS-Work
Telephone Interview Survey--New--National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Each year about 5,400 workers die from a work-related injury and 4
million private industry workers report a nonfatal injury or illness.
There are 3.4 million workers treated in U.S. hospital emergency
departments annually for nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses
[1]. Although studies indicate that we have reduced the number of
nonfatal injuries in recent decades, there is evidence that nonfatal
occupational injury surveillance significantly underreports workplace
injuries. This presumed undercount potentially decreases health and
safety funding because of a false sense of improvement in the
occupational injury rates. It also increases the misdirection of scarce
safety and health resources because hazardous workplaces are not
appropriately identified or assessed and intervention efforts cannot be
properly targeted or evaluated. It is this basic need for reliable and
comprehensive occupational injury surveillance that led to the 1987
National Academy of Science report Counting Injuries and Illnesses in
the Workplace--Proposals for a Better System [6] and the 2008
Congressional Report Hidden Tragedy: Underreporting of Workplace
Injuries and Illnesses [1].
The proposed pilot research addresses two facets of nonfatal
occupational injury reporting noted in these reports--understanding
barriers and incentives to reporting occupational injuries and using
this knowledge to assess and improve our surveillance activities. The
objectives of this project are to (1) characterize and quantify the
relative importance of incentives and disincentives to self-identifying
work-relatedness at the time of medical treatment and to employers; (2)
characterize individual and employment characteristics that are
associated with non-reporting of workplace injuries and incentives and
disincentives to reporting; (3) test the reliability of hospital
abstractors to properly distinguish between work-related and non-work-
related injuries; and (4) evaluate the feasibility, need, and
requirements for a future larger study. Results will be disseminated in
multiple forms to reach a variety of
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occupational health and safety stakeholders.
This project will use the occupational and the all injuries
supplements to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System
(NEISS-Work and NEISS-AIP, respectively) to identify telephone
interview survey participants. NEISS-Work and NEISS-AIP, collected by
the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), capture people who were
treated in the emergency department (ED) for a work-related illness or
injury (NEISS-Work) or any injury, regardless of work-relatedness
(NEISS-AIP). Interview respondents will come from two subgroups--
individuals treated for a work-related injury and individuals who were
treated for a non-work-related injury but who were employed during the
time period that the injury occurred.
Data collection for the telephone interview survey will be done via
a questionnaire. This questionnaire contains questions about the
respondent's injury that sent them to the ED, the characteristics of
the job they were working when they were injured, their experiences
reporting their injury to the ED and their employer (if applicable),
and their beliefs about the process and subsequent consequences of
reporting an injury. The questionnaire was designed to take 30 minutes
to complete. It contains a brief introduction that includes the
elements of informed consent and asks for verbal consent to be given.
The study has received a waiver of written informed consent by the
NIOSH Human Subjects Review Board. The questionnaire includes a brief
series of questions to screen out individuals who were not employed at
the time the injury occurred or was made worse; who are younger than
age 20 or older than age 64; who do not speak English; who were
employed on a farm or ranch or were self-employed, an independent
contractor, or a day laborer at the time of injury; who did not
experience an acute injury; or who missed more than three days from
work because of the injury. The informed consent procedure and
screening questions take around five minutes to complete.
Approximately 600 interviews will be completed. There are no costs
to respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average burden
Type of respondent Number of per response Total burden
respondents (in hours) hours
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U.S. workers with work-related injury..................... 600 30/60 300
U.S. workers with non-work-related injury................. 600 30/60 300
Total................................................. ................ ................ 600
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Dated: August 15, 2011.
Daniel Holcomb,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-21197 Filed 8-18-11; 8:45 am]
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