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fathers, their partners, and children. The
MFS–IP evaluation will assess the
effects of these activities by comparing
relationship quality and stability,
positive family interactions, family
financial well-being, recidivism, and
community connectedness between
intervention and control groups.
Information from the evaluation will
assist Federal, state, and community
policymakers and patrons in deciding
whether to replicate or redesign
identified marriage and family
strengthening program models.
Primary data for the evaluation will
come from three waves of in-person data
collection collected from incarcerated
and released fathers and their partners.
Data will be collected through a baseline
survey and follow-up surveys at
approximately 9 and 18 months postbaseline in five sites. A fourth wave of
data collection at approximately 34
months, will be collected in two of the
five sites. Data collection for the entire
evaluation is expected to last 6 years,
from the time the first participant is
enrolled until the last 34-month followup survey is administered. This three
year renewal request covers data
collection to complete the 9 month and
18 month follow-up surveys and for all
of the 34 month follow-up surveys.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN TABLE
Average burden
(in hours) per
response
Annual burden
1
1.5
481.5
489
1
1.5
733.5
Individuals ....................................
463
1
1.5
694.5
Individuals ....................................
463
1
1.5
694.5
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2604
Number of
respondents
Forms
Type of respondent
MFS–IP Follow-up Survey—Fathers (9 & 18 month).
MFS–IP Follow-up Survey—Partners (9 & 18 month).
MFS–IP Follow-up Survey—Fathers (34 month).
MFS–IP Follow-up Survey—Partners (34 month).
Individuals ....................................
321
individuals .....................................
Totals .....................................
Number of
responses per
respondent
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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.
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Proposed Project
Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
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).
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
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 omb@cdc.gov.
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
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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
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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 workrelatedness 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 workrelated 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
Type of respondent
Number of
respondents
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
U.S. workers with work-related injury ..............................................................................
U.S. workers with non-work-related injury .......................................................................
Total ..........................................................................................................................
600
600
............................
30/60
30/60
............................
Dated: August 15, 2011.
Daniel Holcomb,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
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Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of
information collection requests under
review by the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) in compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35). To request a copy of these
requests, call the CDC Reports Clearance
Officer at (404) 639–5960 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written
comments to 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
Dynamic Decision Making in Mine
Emergency Situations—Existing
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control number—National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
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Mining is a context filled with tragic
outcomes, as thousands of miners die in
mining accidents each year throughout
the world. In the process of examining
workers’ responses in emergency
situations in mines, researchers at the
NIOSH-Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
(PRL) have found that one of the key
human behavior processes that need to
be better understood to better handle
emergency situations is Decision
Making (Vaught, Brnich, & Mallett,
2004). Decision Making, the process by
which alternatives are constructed and
a choice is made, continues to be one of
the critically understudied aspects of
mine emergencies. For example, The
Mine Safety Technology and Training
(MSTT) Commission suggests that
escape/rescue decision-making is one of
the most critical skill/knowledge gaps
identified in mining (MSTTC, 2006).
Their report strongly supports the need
for additional training in decisionmaking during emergency situations to
improve the ability of miners to escape
(or be rescued).
The research proposed here will help
address this gap by integrating the
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hours
300
300
600
theoretical knowledge of human
decision making in dynamic situations
with the practical aspects of training
miners. The research will result in the
improved science of decision making
and practical guidelines and tools that
demonstrate how to best train decision
making in the unique conditions of
accidents when under workload,
uncertainty, and time constraints.
A simple Decision Making Game
(DMGame) was used in a laboratory
study to investigate choice strategies
based on the dynamic development of
cues. Through a contract with the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (Contract #200–2009–
31403), the Dynamic Decision Making
Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon
University will investigate several
independent variables relevant to
Instance-Based Learning Theory,
including: the diversity of instances, the
number of instances (base rates) needed
to improve accuracy in the triage
process, and the effects of time
constraints and workload on the
effectiveness of triage. The
manipulation of these independent
variables will reveal training scenarios
and conditions that are more effective
during learning and at transfer.
Knowledge acquired during training
will be tested in transfer conditions. The
transfer conditions will vary depending
on the participants used in the
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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
omb@cdc.gov.
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
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
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