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(CCCE) to the Physical Effects
Research Branch (CCCE)
• Retitle all references to the
Centers for Disease Control and
Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Prevention
Branch (CCCH) to the Bioanalytics
Branch (CCCH)
Statement of Organization, Functions,
• Create the Chemical and Biological
and Delegations of Authority
Monitoring Branch (CCCK)
• Retitle all references to the Education
Part C (Centers for Disease Control
and Information Division (CCE) to the
and Prevention) of the Statement of
Division of Science Integration (CCE)
Organization, Functions, and
• Retitle all references to the
Delegations of Authority of the
Information Resources and
Department of Health and Human
Dissemination Branch (CCEB) to the
Services (45 FR 67772–76, dated
Science Applications Branch (CCEB)
October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR
• Retitle all references to the Training
69296, October 20, 1980, as amended
Research and Evaluation Branch
most recently at 84 FR 10518–10519,
(CCEC) to the Social Science and
dated March 21, 2019) is amended to
Translation Research Branch (CCEC)
reflect the reorganization of the National
• Create the Emerging Technologies
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Branch (CCEG)
Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease
• Retitle all references to the Division of
Control and Prevention. The
Surveillance, Hazard, Evaluations,
reorganization is needed to provide
and Field Studies (CCK) to the
streamlined and focused research
Division of Field Studies and
programs in Cincinnati, as well as to
Engineering (CCK)
better deliver administrative and
• Retitle all references to the
management functions by the Office of
Industrywide Studies Branch (CCKC)
Administrative and Management
to the Field Research Branch (CCKC)
Services within the NIOSH Office of the
• Retitle all references to the
Director.
I. Under Part C, Section C–B,
Surveillance Branch (CCKD) to the
Organization and Functions, the
Health Informatics Branch (CCKD)
following organizational units are
• Create the Engineering and Physical
deleted in their entirety:
Hazards Branch (CCKE)
• Office of Administrative and
III. Under Part C, Section C–B,
Management Services (CCA1)
Organization and Functions, insert the
• Administrative Services Branch
following:
(Pittsburgh) (CCA12)
• Office of the Deputy Director for
• Administrative Services Branch
Management (CCA6): Provides
(Cincinnati) (CCA13)
leadership, direction, guidance and
• Administrative Services Branch
support across the Institute in the areas
(Spokane) (CCA14)
of: (1) Information technology and
• Management Systems Branch (CCA15) informatics; (2) facilities management;
• Administrative Services Branch
(3) policy, planning and evaluation; (4)
(Morgantown) (CCA16)
fiscal resources management; and (5)
• Health Communication Research
human capital management.
Branch (CCCJ)
• Human Capital Management Office
• Document Development Branch
(CCA62): (1) Serves as the Institute’s
(CCED)
focal point for Strategic Human Capital
• Division of Applied Research and
Management activities that promote and
Technology (CCG)
retain a high-performing, diverse and
II. Under Part C, Section C–B,
engaged workforce; (2) coordinates and
Organization and Functions, make the
advises on human capital programs and
following changes:
initiatives; (3) conducts strategic human
• Create the Office of the Deputy
capital planning activities to ensure all
Director for Management (CCA6)
human capital programs are aligned
• Create the Human Capital
with agency missions, goals, and
Management Office (CCA62)
objectives through analysis, planning,
• Create the Facilities Management
investment, and measurement; (4)
Office (CCA63)
implements talent management
• Create the Fiscal Resources
initiatives to ensure that the Institute
Management Office (CCA64)
has the right people with the right skills
• Create the Information Technology
in the right position at the right time to
and Informatics Services Office
accomplish the Institute’s mission; (5)
(CCA65)
creates and sustains a performance
• Create the Policy, Planning, and
culture that engages, develops, retains
Evaluation Office (CCA66)
and inspires a diverse, high-performing
• Retitle all references to the
workforce by creating, implementing,
Engineering and Control Branch
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and maintaining effective performance
management and incentive strategies,
practices, and activities; (6) initiates
labor-management activities that
promote a shared vision of mission
accomplishment through partnerships
with labor unions; (7) provides
programs and initiatives that support an
engaged and healthy NIOSH workforce;
and (8) performs human capital support
functions to include monitoring and
tracking recruitment and placement
activities, maintaining position-based
management systems, conducting new
NIOSH employee onboarding and
orientation, approving incentive and
performance awards, planning and
implementing awards programs,
ensuring manager and supervisor
compliance in areas of performance
management, managing and providing
NIOSH-specific training opportunities,
and other human capital support advice,
activities and functions.
• Facilities Management Office
(CCA63): (1) Provides leadership,
guidance, direction and support for all
Facilities Engineering and
Environmental Safety and Health
functions across the Institute; (2)
provides and/or oversees
comprehensive facilities operations,
maintenance, and support functions for
the offices, laboratories, and grounds at
NIOSH facilities (Cincinnati,
Morgantown, Pittsburgh, and Spokane);
(3) serves as the focal point on matters
of internal security and safety including
facilities security coordination, smart
card/ID card issuance and control,
access to facilities, and in/out
processing; and (4) provides inventory
and property management control
activities at NIOSH field locations.
• Fiscal Resources Management
Office (CCA64): (1) Provides fiscal
expertise and oversight to the Institute,
divisions and geographic locations
across the Institute; (2) provides for
sound fiscal stewardship, and ensures
compliance with Appropriation Law
and all HHS, CDC, NIOSH policies; (3)
ensures the most efficient and
appropriate allocation of fiscal resources
to support NIOSH’s research; and (4)
handles budget planning and execution
oversight, acquisition policy and
oversight, and business services
oversight for travel management, ICAP
processing, P-card and travel card
compliance, and timekeeping.
• Information Technology and
Informatics Services Office (CCA65): (1)
Provides expertise in enterprise
architecture, IT policy and planning,
data architecture and administration, IT
lifecycle management, and subject
matter expertise supporting analytical
software and the NIOSH Analytical Data
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Warehouse program; (2) provides
information security and resources for
NIOSH IT and data security needs
across the Institute; (3) provides
management of the NIOSH technology
platforms providing data, application
and analytical services to NIOSH
divisions while performing
administrative security and patching
functions on behalf of the NIOSH user
community; (4) provides specialized
ready-to-use application platforms,
design support and subject matter
expertise to NIOSH divisions for core
application platforms providing
database, analytical, visualization and
web services; and (5) supports NIOSH
divisions with IT policy, business
process development and project
management services including
compliance requirements for the Federal
Information Technology Acquisition
Reform Act, the Enterprise Performance
Life Cycle, Data Governance and the
National Archives and Records
Administration.
• Policy, Planning, and Evaluation
Office (CCA66): (1) Provides leadership
and coordination of the Institute’s
planning, evaluation, legislative,
committee management, and policy
activities; (2) provides technical
assistance to NIOSH scientists; (3)
designs and carries out evaluation
studies based on evidence-based
evaluation methodologies, and advances
the ways NIOSH demonstrates the
relevance and impact of its work; (4)
ensures budget formulation through the
Congressional budget and
appropriations process, and coordinates
responses to requests from Congress,
OMB, HHS, and others; (5) coordinates
FOIA and Privacy Act responses; (6)
oversees and coordinates project
planning, strategic planning, research
program portfolio management, and
program evaluation across the Institute;
and (7) provides oversight for
Committee Management for NIOSH’s
two main Federal Advisory Committee
Act responsibilities (the Board of
Scientific Counselors and the Mine
Safety and Health Research Advisory
Committee).
• Physical Effects Research Branch
(CCCE): (1) Provides research
capabilities for developing and
establishing engineering solutions for
the control of occupational disease; (2)
coordinates with the Exposure
Assessment Branch to develop
engineering techniques to solve
problems in measuring and monitoring
programs; (3) develops and utilizes
techniques in computerized workplace
simulations and mathematical models;
(4) develops passive protective devices
and systems for preventing or
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minimizing worker exposure to
hazardous chemical, biological, and
physical substances; and (5) develops
sophisticated personal protective
equipment to provide workers with
information about their working
environment.
• Bioanalytics Branch (CCCH): (1)
Provides experimental design and
support of laboratory-based research to
address the statistical aspects of projects
in the Division and throughout the
Institute; (2) verifies the statistical
quality, both in the design and analysis
phases, of all experimental research in
the Institute; (3) develops and directs
the application of new statistical
methods as well as the design and
analysis of field research projects for the
Institute; (4) develops computerized
methods for independent research
initiatives in statistical methods to
advance basic research in experimental
and observational studies; and (5)
collaborates in the design of laboratory
and field research studies, providing
consultation through the course of
research on computerized methods of
data collection and interpretation of
results.
• Chemical and Biological Monitoring
Branch (CCCK): (1) Conducts applied
research and establishes the methods for
the identification and assessment of
occupational exposures using
biomonitoring, industrial hygiene fieldand laboratory-based analytical
methods, direct reading instruments and
sensors, advanced microscopy
techniques, and aerosol science; and (2)
serves as an Institutional resource and
collaborates with internal and external
partners as related to application of
these areas for occupational exposure
assessment research focusing on novel
and emerging issues.
• Division of Science Integration
(CCE): (1) Conducts research that will
lead to the prevention of occupational
disease, deaths, and injuries through the
evaluation and synthesis of scientific
information, and forecasting the
emergence of technologies that impact
work, how work is organized, and how
to stimulate change in the work
environment; (2) researches and
develops preventive outcomes so that
workers are protected from workplace
hazards; (3) identifies factors that
impact the conduct of work and that are
potentially harmful to workers and the
workforce; (4) develops
recommendations and guidance for safe
and best practices by building on
research, evaluation, synthesis of
information, and collaboration across
branches and programs; and (5)
conducts studies of the most effective
ways to translate research and guidance
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to practice through utilization of hazard
and risk information to apprise
employers, workers, and decision
makers of the extent and severity of
workplace risks to be prevented and the
means to do so.
• Science Applications Branch
(CCEB): (1) Develops interventions and
preventive guidance to protect the
workforce from adverse effects of work
and workplace hazards through the
evaluation and synthesis of scientific
research; (2) conducts research to
address the range of workplace hazards
in their chemical, physical, and
biological forms and conducts research
on the organization of work, which will
lead to the development of guidance on
various hazards and analytical methods;
and (3) prioritizes and informs guidance
development through the use of risk
assessments and exposure science.
• Social Science and Translation
Research Branch (CCEC): (1) Conducts
research on work and non-work factors
that lead to adverse effects in workers
and develops guidance to ameliorate
those factors through focusing on
understanding and investigating the
environment of work; (2) conducts
research on how work is organized and
the implications for health,
productivity, and prevention; (3)
provides leadership via a virtual crossInstitute effort in translation research
which is the application of scientific
investigative approaches to study how
the outputs of basic and applied
research can be effectively translated
into practice and have an impact,
including the study of how useful
knowledge and interventions are
disseminated, adopted, implemented
and institutionalized; and (4) conducts
research and develops guidance on
vulnerable populations including
young, aging, contingent, and immigrant
workers, and small businesses.
• Emerging Technologies Branch
(CCEG): (1) Conducts research and
gathers information that facilitates
forecasting, identifying, evaluating, and
developing guidance on potential
hazards in new or emergent
technologies; (2) collaborates with other
branches, divisions, programs, and
agencies that research and investigate
new technologies to identify and
increase understanding of hazards as a
technology emerges and information on
it as it is deployed; (3) conducts
research addressing nanotechnology,
advanced manufacturing and materials,
synthetic and engineered biology, and
other technologies as they emerge; (4)
manages and coordinates the
Nanotechnology Research Center; and
(5) develops recommendations and
guidance, utilizing Prevention through
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Design (PtD) concepts, and leads the PtD
program.
• Division of Field Studies and
Engineering (CCK): (1) Conducts the
legislatively mandated health hazard
evaluation and industry-wide research
programs through longitudinal recordbased studies and field studies to
identify the occupational causes of
disease in working populations and
their offspring, and determines the
incidence and prevalence of acute and
chronic effects from work-related
exposures to hazardous substances; (2)
conducts exposure, epidemiologic, and
engineering research for input to
standards to control occupational health
hazards; (3) plans and conducts
worksite and laboratory engineering
research to identify, evaluate, develop
and implement technology to prevent
workers’ exposures to chemical,
biological, and physical agents; (4) plans
and conducts laboratory and worksite
research to develop strategies to prevent
occupational hearing loss and
musculoskeletal disorders; (5) develops
and maintains data systems, using
national and state data, that track the
magnitude and extent of job-related
illnesses, exposures, and hazardous
agents among the nation’s workers; (6)
provides support for first responders
during national emergency response
activities; and (7) provides technical
assistance and consultation on matters
pertaining to occupational safety and
health to other Federal, state, and local
agencies, and other groups or
individuals.
• Field Research Branch (CCKC): (1)
Conducts and supports etiologic and
exposure assessment research studies in
working populations; (2) communicates
research results to workers, scientists,
industry, and the public; (3) provides
research data for the development of
health hazard controls and protective
standards; and (4) conducts research
using workers’ compensation data and
systems to identify hazards and improve
workplace safety and health.
• Health Informatics Branch (CCKD):
(l) Develops, maintains, and uses data
and record systems to track the
magnitude and extent of job-related
illnesses and exposures among the
nation’s workers using new and existing
data from sources such as Federal, State,
and local agencies, labor, industry,
tumor registries, medical, laboratory,
and other records; (2) uses novel
research methods to identify and
develop, or in certain instances, support
the development of new sources of data
for surveillance and research purposes;
(3) develops new surveillance research
methods; and (4) uses new technologies
to communicate health and exposure
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information to stakeholders and the
public.
• Engineering and Physical Hazards
Branch (CCKE): (1) Plans and conducts
research on engineering control
technology to prevent worker exposures
to hazards and promotes the application
of effective engineering control
technologies for safeguarding worker
health and safety; (2) provides
consultation in the application of
effective control solutions and
techniques for hazard prevention; (3)
conducts research related to
occupational hearing loss, including
causative factors, noise control, hearing
protection devices, and impulse noise to
prevent occupational hearing loss for
workers at risk in non-mining sectors;
(4) conducts research related to
ergonomic hazards including
developing engineering controls in the
laboratory and evaluating their
effectiveness in the workplace to
prevent workplace musculoskeletal
disorders; and (5) conducts rapid
prototype research to design and
develop control solutions to workplace
exposure problems.
IV. Delegations of Authority: All
delegations and redelegations of
authority made to officials and
employees of affected organizational
components will continue with them or
their successors pending further
redelegation, provided they are
consistent with this reorganization.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3101)
Alex M. Azar II,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of
Authority
Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of
the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated
October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980, as
amended most recently at 84 FR 10518-10519, dated March 21, 2019) is
amended to reflect the reorganization of the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. The reorganization is needed to provide streamlined and
focused research programs in Cincinnati, as well as to better deliver
administrative and management functions by the Office of Administrative
and Management Services within the NIOSH Office of the Director.
I. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and Functions, the
following organizational units are deleted in their entirety:
Office of Administrative and Management Services (CCA1)
Administrative Services Branch (Pittsburgh) (CCA12)
Administrative Services Branch (Cincinnati) (CCA13)
Administrative Services Branch (Spokane) (CCA14)
Management Systems Branch (CCA15)
Administrative Services Branch (Morgantown) (CCA16)
Health Communication Research Branch (CCCJ)
Document Development Branch (CCED)
Division of Applied Research and Technology (CCG)
II. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and Functions, make the
following changes:
Create the Office of the Deputy Director for Management (CCA6)
Create the Human Capital Management Office (CCA62)
Create the Facilities Management Office (CCA63)
Create the Fiscal Resources Management Office (CCA64)
Create the Information Technology and Informatics Services
Office (CCA65)
Create the Policy, Planning, and Evaluation Office (CCA66)
Retitle all references to the Engineering and Control Branch
(CCCE) to the Physical Effects Research Branch (CCCE)
Retitle all references to the Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Branch (CCCH) to the Bioanalytics Branch (CCCH)
Create the Chemical and Biological Monitoring Branch (CCCK)
Retitle all references to the Education and Information
Division (CCE) to the Division of Science Integration (CCE)
Retitle all references to the Information Resources and
Dissemination Branch (CCEB) to the Science Applications Branch (CCEB)
Retitle all references to the Training Research and Evaluation
Branch (CCEC) to the Social Science and Translation Research Branch
(CCEC)
Create the Emerging Technologies Branch (CCEG)
Retitle all references to the Division of Surveillance,
Hazard, Evaluations, and Field Studies (CCK) to the Division of Field
Studies and Engineering (CCK)
Retitle all references to the Industrywide Studies Branch
(CCKC) to the Field Research Branch (CCKC)
Retitle all references to the Surveillance Branch (CCKD) to
the Health Informatics Branch (CCKD)
Create the Engineering and Physical Hazards Branch (CCKE)
III. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and Functions, insert
the following:
Office of the Deputy Director for Management (CCA6):
Provides leadership, direction, guidance and support across the
Institute in the areas of: (1) Information technology and informatics;
(2) facilities management; (3) policy, planning and evaluation; (4)
fiscal resources management; and (5) human capital management.
Human Capital Management Office (CCA62): (1) Serves as the
Institute's focal point for Strategic Human Capital Management
activities that promote and retain a high-performing, diverse and
engaged workforce; (2) coordinates and advises on human capital
programs and initiatives; (3) conducts strategic human capital planning
activities to ensure all human capital programs are aligned with agency
missions, goals, and objectives through analysis, planning, investment,
and measurement; (4) implements talent management initiatives to ensure
that the Institute has the right people with the right skills in the
right position at the right time to accomplish the Institute's mission;
(5) creates and sustains a performance culture that engages, develops,
retains and inspires a diverse, high-performing workforce by creating,
implementing, and maintaining effective performance management and
incentive strategies, practices, and activities; (6) initiates labor-
management activities that promote a shared vision of mission
accomplishment through partnerships with labor unions; (7) provides
programs and initiatives that support an engaged and healthy NIOSH
workforce; and (8) performs human capital support functions to include
monitoring and tracking recruitment and placement activities,
maintaining position-based management systems, conducting new NIOSH
employee onboarding and orientation, approving incentive and
performance awards, planning and implementing awards programs, ensuring
manager and supervisor compliance in areas of performance management,
managing and providing NIOSH-specific training opportunities, and other
human capital support advice, activities and functions.
Facilities Management Office (CCA63): (1) Provides
leadership, guidance, direction and support for all Facilities
Engineering and Environmental Safety and Health functions across the
Institute; (2) provides and/or oversees comprehensive facilities
operations, maintenance, and support functions for the offices,
laboratories, and grounds at NIOSH facilities (Cincinnati, Morgantown,
Pittsburgh, and Spokane); (3) serves as the focal point on matters of
internal security and safety including facilities security
coordination, smart card/ID card issuance and control, access to
facilities, and in/out processing; and (4) provides inventory and
property management control activities at NIOSH field locations.
Fiscal Resources Management Office (CCA64): (1) Provides
fiscal expertise and oversight to the Institute, divisions and
geographic locations across the Institute; (2) provides for sound
fiscal stewardship, and ensures compliance with Appropriation Law and
all HHS, CDC, NIOSH policies; (3) ensures the most efficient and
appropriate allocation of fiscal resources to support NIOSH's research;
and (4) handles budget planning and execution oversight, acquisition
policy and oversight, and business services oversight for travel
management, ICAP processing, P-card and travel card compliance, and
timekeeping.
Information Technology and Informatics Services Office
(CCA65): (1) Provides expertise in enterprise architecture, IT policy
and planning, data architecture and administration, IT lifecycle
management, and subject matter expertise supporting analytical software
and the NIOSH Analytical Data
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Warehouse program; (2) provides information security and resources for
NIOSH IT and data security needs across the Institute; (3) provides
management of the NIOSH technology platforms providing data,
application and analytical services to NIOSH divisions while performing
administrative security and patching functions on behalf of the NIOSH
user community; (4) provides specialized ready-to-use application
platforms, design support and subject matter expertise to NIOSH
divisions for core application platforms providing database,
analytical, visualization and web services; and (5) supports NIOSH
divisions with IT policy, business process development and project
management services including compliance requirements for the Federal
Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, the Enterprise
Performance Life Cycle, Data Governance and the National Archives and
Records Administration.
Policy, Planning, and Evaluation Office (CCA66): (1)
Provides leadership and coordination of the Institute's planning,
evaluation, legislative, committee management, and policy activities;
(2) provides technical assistance to NIOSH scientists; (3) designs and
carries out evaluation studies based on evidence-based evaluation
methodologies, and advances the ways NIOSH demonstrates the relevance
and impact of its work; (4) ensures budget formulation through the
Congressional budget and appropriations process, and coordinates
responses to requests from Congress, OMB, HHS, and others; (5)
coordinates FOIA and Privacy Act responses; (6) oversees and
coordinates project planning, strategic planning, research program
portfolio management, and program evaluation across the Institute; and
(7) provides oversight for Committee Management for NIOSH's two main
Federal Advisory Committee Act responsibilities (the Board of
Scientific Counselors and the Mine Safety and Health Research Advisory
Committee).
Physical Effects Research Branch (CCCE): (1) Provides
research capabilities for developing and establishing engineering
solutions for the control of occupational disease; (2) coordinates with
the Exposure Assessment Branch to develop engineering techniques to
solve problems in measuring and monitoring programs; (3) develops and
utilizes techniques in computerized workplace simulations and
mathematical models; (4) develops passive protective devices and
systems for preventing or minimizing worker exposure to hazardous
chemical, biological, and physical substances; and (5) develops
sophisticated personal protective equipment to provide workers with
information about their working environment.
Bioanalytics Branch (CCCH): (1) Provides experimental
design and support of laboratory-based research to address the
statistical aspects of projects in the Division and throughout the
Institute; (2) verifies the statistical quality, both in the design and
analysis phases, of all experimental research in the Institute; (3)
develops and directs the application of new statistical methods as well
as the design and analysis of field research projects for the
Institute; (4) develops computerized methods for independent research
initiatives in statistical methods to advance basic research in
experimental and observational studies; and (5) collaborates in the
design of laboratory and field research studies, providing consultation
through the course of research on computerized methods of data
collection and interpretation of results.
Chemical and Biological Monitoring Branch (CCCK): (1)
Conducts applied research and establishes the methods for the
identification and assessment of occupational exposures using
biomonitoring, industrial hygiene field- and laboratory-based
analytical methods, direct reading instruments and sensors, advanced
microscopy techniques, and aerosol science; and (2) serves as an
Institutional resource and collaborates with internal and external
partners as related to application of these areas for occupational
exposure assessment research focusing on novel and emerging issues.
Division of Science Integration (CCE): (1) Conducts
research that will lead to the prevention of occupational disease,
deaths, and injuries through the evaluation and synthesis of scientific
information, and forecasting the emergence of technologies that impact
work, how work is organized, and how to stimulate change in the work
environment; (2) researches and develops preventive outcomes so that
workers are protected from workplace hazards; (3) identifies factors
that impact the conduct of work and that are potentially harmful to
workers and the workforce; (4) develops recommendations and guidance
for safe and best practices by building on research, evaluation,
synthesis of information, and collaboration across branches and
programs; and (5) conducts studies of the most effective ways to
translate research and guidance to practice through utilization of
hazard and risk information to apprise employers, workers, and decision
makers of the extent and severity of workplace risks to be prevented
and the means to do so.
Science Applications Branch (CCEB): (1) Develops
interventions and preventive guidance to protect the workforce from
adverse effects of work and workplace hazards through the evaluation
and synthesis of scientific research; (2) conducts research to address
the range of workplace hazards in their chemical, physical, and
biological forms and conducts research on the organization of work,
which will lead to the development of guidance on various hazards and
analytical methods; and (3) prioritizes and informs guidance
development through the use of risk assessments and exposure science.
Social Science and Translation Research Branch (CCEC): (1)
Conducts research on work and non-work factors that lead to adverse
effects in workers and develops guidance to ameliorate those factors
through focusing on understanding and investigating the environment of
work; (2) conducts research on how work is organized and the
implications for health, productivity, and prevention; (3) provides
leadership via a virtual cross-Institute effort in translation research
which is the application of scientific investigative approaches to
study how the outputs of basic and applied research can be effectively
translated into practice and have an impact, including the study of how
useful knowledge and interventions are disseminated, adopted,
implemented and institutionalized; and (4) conducts research and
develops guidance on vulnerable populations including young, aging,
contingent, and immigrant workers, and small businesses.
Emerging Technologies Branch (CCEG): (1) Conducts research
and gathers information that facilitates forecasting, identifying,
evaluating, and developing guidance on potential hazards in new or
emergent technologies; (2) collaborates with other branches, divisions,
programs, and agencies that research and investigate new technologies
to identify and increase understanding of hazards as a technology
emerges and information on it as it is deployed; (3) conducts research
addressing nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing and materials,
synthetic and engineered biology, and other technologies as they
emerge; (4) manages and coordinates the Nanotechnology Research Center;
and (5) develops recommendations and guidance, utilizing Prevention
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Design (PtD) concepts, and leads the PtD program.
Division of Field Studies and Engineering (CCK): (1)
Conducts the legislatively mandated health hazard evaluation and
industry-wide research programs through longitudinal record-based
studies and field studies to identify the occupational causes of
disease in working populations and their offspring, and determines the
incidence and prevalence of acute and chronic effects from work-related
exposures to hazardous substances; (2) conducts exposure,
epidemiologic, and engineering research for input to standards to
control occupational health hazards; (3) plans and conducts worksite
and laboratory engineering research to identify, evaluate, develop and
implement technology to prevent workers' exposures to chemical,
biological, and physical agents; (4) plans and conducts laboratory and
worksite research to develop strategies to prevent occupational hearing
loss and musculoskeletal disorders; (5) develops and maintains data
systems, using national and state data, that track the magnitude and
extent of job-related illnesses, exposures, and hazardous agents among
the nation's workers; (6) provides support for first responders during
national emergency response activities; and (7) provides technical
assistance and consultation on matters pertaining to occupational
safety and health to other Federal, state, and local agencies, and
other groups or individuals.
Field Research Branch (CCKC): (1) Conducts and supports
etiologic and exposure assessment research studies in working
populations; (2) communicates research results to workers, scientists,
industry, and the public; (3) provides research data for the
development of health hazard controls and protective standards; and (4)
conducts research using workers' compensation data and systems to
identify hazards and improve workplace safety and health.
Health Informatics Branch (CCKD): (l) Develops, maintains,
and uses data and record systems to track the magnitude and extent of
job-related illnesses and exposures among the nation's workers using
new and existing data from sources such as Federal, State, and local
agencies, labor, industry, tumor registries, medical, laboratory, and
other records; (2) uses novel research methods to identify and develop,
or in certain instances, support the development of new sources of data
for surveillance and research purposes; (3) develops new surveillance
research methods; and (4) uses new technologies to communicate health
and exposure information to stakeholders and the public.
Engineering and Physical Hazards Branch (CCKE): (1) Plans
and conducts research on engineering control technology to prevent
worker exposures to hazards and promotes the application of effective
engineering control technologies for safeguarding worker health and
safety; (2) provides consultation in the application of effective
control solutions and techniques for hazard prevention; (3) conducts
research related to occupational hearing loss, including causative
factors, noise control, hearing protection devices, and impulse noise
to prevent occupational hearing loss for workers at risk in non-mining
sectors; (4) conducts research related to ergonomic hazards including
developing engineering controls in the laboratory and evaluating their
effectiveness in the workplace to prevent workplace musculoskeletal
disorders; and (5) conducts rapid prototype research to design and
develop control solutions to workplace exposure problems.
IV. Delegations of Authority: All delegations and redelegations of
authority made to officials and employees of affected organizational
components will continue with them or their successors pending further
redelegation, provided they are consistent with this reorganization.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3101)
Alex M. Azar II,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-07035 Filed 4-9-19; 8:45 am]
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