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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

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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.
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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 Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations

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).

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

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,
proactive behaviors, and safety

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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.

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.

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

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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents

Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
hours

Type of respondent

Form name

Safety/health Mine Operator .............
Mine Worker ......................................
Mine Worker ......................................

Mine Recruitment Script ...................
Individual Miner Recruitment Script
Survey ..............................................

10
266
266

1
1
1

5/60
5/60
15/60

1
22
67

Total ...........................................

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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.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES

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Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
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The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) has submitted the
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to the Office of Management and Budget

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(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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