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91–596), the mission of NIOSH is to
conduct research and investigations on
occupational safety and health. This
project will focus on understanding the
decision-making processes of small
wholesale and small retail businesses in
regards to the adoption of fallprevention solutions. Slips, trips, and
falls are major sources of workplace
injury across all industry sectors and
represent a significant burden. In the
wholesale and retail trade sectors, slips,
trips, and falls account for 25% of all
reported injuries. By definition, small
businesses employ fewer numbers of
people, therefore a slip, trip, or fall
resulting in an injury is less likely to
occur in any given establishment. Small
business employers may underestimate
the risks associated with occupational
slips, trips, and falls because they have
not experienced them and therefore do
not take the necessary steps to prevent
them.
One of the best ways to prevent and
control occupational injuries, illnesses,
and fatalities is to ‘‘design out’’ or
minimize hazards and risks. NIOSH’s
Prevention Through Design Initiative
focuses on this concept through the
inclusion of prevention considerations
in all designs that impact workers.
Although employers’ decisions can lead
to the successful implementation of
Prevention Through Design, fallprevention solutions are not well
understood. More information is needed
to better understand the motivational,

injured?’’), and behavioral economic
discounting assessments. For the
behavioral economic questions in the
survey, participants will be asked to
make choices about hypothetical, but
realistic, scenarios that assess the
influence of several factors on the
patterns of decision-making. To date, no
study has quantitatively assessed the
safety-related decision-making
processes of small business employers
from a behavioral economic perspective.
Previous studies in this area consist of
qualitative studies of some factors that
affect occupational safety and health of
small businesses. This study will
address a knowledge gap in the
professional and scientific literature by
contributing quantitative data to a
problem that has been overlooked. The
results for this study are meant for
theory development and are not
intended to be nationally representative.
The sample size for this survey will
be 100 small business employers in the
wholesale or retail trade sectors. This
sample size is based on a power analysis
which indicated that 100 respondents
would be sufficient to detect any
correlations between the organizational
or demographic variables and the
behavioral economic measures of
decision making. Each web-based
survey will take approximately 30
minutes to complete, resulting in an
annualized burden estimate of 50 hours.
There is no cost to respondents other
than their time.

social, and organizational factors that
affect employers’ decisions to adopt fallprevention solutions. This project will
combine traditional surveys with
behavioral economic methodologies to
understand the decision-making
processes related to the adoption of fallprevention solutions. By using
behavioral economic principles and
methods, this study will pose
hypothetical, but realistic, scenarios to
small business employers to assess the
influence of several factors on the
patterns of decisions. One of the goals
of the study is to assess the subjective
value of fall-prevention solutions based
on their costs and effort required to use
them. To quantify the subjective value
of fall-prevention solutions, this project
will use the behavioral economic
principles to assess the trade-offs small
business owners make among the cost of
fall prevention solutions, the amount of
effort require to assemble them, and the
amount of time they take to assemble.
One of the behavioral economic
principles is discounting, in which the
value of a product or outcome decreases
as the cost, effort, or delay associated
with it increases. For example, smallbusiness owners may ‘‘discount’’ the
value of a fall-prevention solution if it
requires great effort to assemble,
The survey will include instruments
to obtain demographic information (age,
gender, income, etc.), organizational
safety information (e.g., ‘‘Has someone
at your place of work ever been

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Type of
respondents

Form name

Number of
respondents

Small business employers ................

Survey ..............................................

Number of
responses per
respondent

100

1

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

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES

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0106]

Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention

Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:

The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of

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Office, Office of Scientific Integrity, Office
of Science, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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its continuing effort to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies the opportunity to comment on
a proposed and/or continuing
information collection, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
This notice invites comments on a
proposed information collection project
titled ‘‘Online training for law
enforcement to reduce risks associated
with shift work and long work hours’’.
This study will develop and pilot test a
new, online, interactive training
program tailored for the law
enforcement community that relays the
health and safety risks associated with

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shift work, long work hours, and related
workplace sleep issues, and presents
strategies for managers and officers to
reduce these risks.
DATES: CDC must receive written
comments on or before February 8,
2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2018–
0106 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information
Collection Review Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
Clifton Road NE, MS–D74, Atlanta,
Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
Docket Number. CDC will post, without
change, all relevant comments to
Regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all comments
through the Federal eRulemaking portal
(regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, contact Jeffery M. Zirger,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, MS–
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone:
404–639–7570; Email: omb@cdc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal agencies
must obtain approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for each
collection of information they conduct
or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also
requires Federal agencies to provide a
60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed
extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of
previously approved information
collection before submitting the
collection to the OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice of a proposed
data collection as described below.
The OMB is particularly interested in
comments that will help:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
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including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
4. Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
5. Assess information collection costs.
Proposed Project
Online training for law enforcement
to reduce risks associated with shift
work and long work hours—New—
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Police often work during the evening,
at night, and sometimes irregular and
long hours. Shift work and long work
hours are linked to many health and
safety risks due to disturbances to sleep
and circadian rhythms. These work
schedules also lead to difficulties with
personal relationships due to having
less time with family and friends, poor
mood from sleep deprivation, and
problems balancing work and personal
responsibilities. These work schedules
and inadequate sleep likely contribute
to health problems seen in police:
Shorter life spans, high occupational
injury rates, and burden of chronic
illnesses. One strategy to reduce these
risks is training programs to inform
employers and law enforcement officers
about the risks and strategies to reduce
their risks.
This is a New Information Collection
Request for one-year of data collection.
This pilot study is part of a project
awarded National Occupational
Research Agenda (NORA) funding. The
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health is authorized to carry
out this data collection through
Occupational Safety and Health Act of
1970.
The purpose of this project is to
develop a training program to relay the
risks linked to shift work and long work
hours and give workplace strategies for
employers and personal strategies for
the officers to reduce the risks. Once
finalized, the training will be available
on the NIOSH website. The training will
be pilot tested with 30 recent graduates
of a police academy and 30 experienced
officers. The study will recruit 60 law
enforcement officers during a 30-minute
phone call. All respondents will work

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full-time on fixed night shifts. The pilot
test will use a pre-test—post-test design
to examine sleep (both duration and
quality), worktime sleepiness, and
knowledge retained. Pre-test measures
will be collected two weeks before the
training. Post-test measures will be
collected the week of the training (week
three of the study), one week after the
training (week four) and at eight and
nine weeks after the training (weeks 11
and 12 of the study). Additional posttest measures will include feedback
about the training and if specific
behaviors changed.
Before starting the pretest, the
respondent will sign an informed
consent form. The pilot pre-test will
start with the respondent filling out a 10
minute online survey that includes four
short surveys: (1) Demographic
information and work experience; (2)
the Epworth Sleepiness Scale; (3) the
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; and (4)
a knowledge test. The respondent will
be fitted with a wrist actigraph, which
will record activity and estimate the
times of sleep. The respondents will
keep an online sleep activity diary and
wear the actigraph continuously during
weeks one to four of the study. The
online sleep activity diary takes
approximately two minutes a day to
complete. The sleep diary and actigraph
are being used together to obtain a more
accurate timing of respondent’s sleep
and activity.
During the third week of the study,
the respondent will take the 2.5 hour
online training program. Immediately
after completing the training, the
respondent will take the post-test
knowledge test and will provide
feedback about the training including
barriers to using the training
information and what influential people
in their life would want them to do with
the training information. At the end of
week four, the respondent will return
the actigraph. No data collection will
occur during weeks five to 10 of the
study.
The second post-test period will be
weeks 11 and 12 of the study to gather
longer-term outcomes. At the beginning
of week 11, the respondents will be
fitted with an actigraph. The respondent
will wear the actigraph and complete
the sleep activity diary for the next 14
days. At the end of week 12 of the
study, the respondent will complete the
Epworth Sleepiness Scale, Pittsburgh
Sleep Quality Index, and Changes in
Behaviors After Training. The combined
response time is five minutes.
The burden table lists three 10-minute
meetings during the post-test period
when they will return the actigraph at
the end of week four, be fitted with an

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actigraph at the beginning of week 11
and return it at the end of week 12. The
respondents will complete the sleep
activity diary for 42 days total (two
minutes each day). The total burden
hours for the diary is 84.
Study staff will use the findings from
the pilot test to make improvements to

the training program. The research team
will reinforce or expand training
content that showed less than desired
results on the pilot test. Potential
impacts of this project include
improvements in management practices
such as the design of work schedules

and improvements in officers’ personal
behaviors for coping with the demands
of shift work and long work hours. The
total estimated annualized burden hours
is 334. There are no costs to respondents
other than their time.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents

Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total
burden
(in hours)

Type of respondents

Form name

Law enforcement officers ..................

60

1

30/60

30

60
60
60
60
60
60
60
60

1
2
2
2
1
42
1
1

15/60
5/60
1/60
2/60
2/60
2/60
150/60
5/60

15
10
2
4
2
84
150
5

Law enforcement officers ..................
Law enforcement officers ..................

Phone call for recruitment & informed consent.
Initial meeting ...................................
Knowledge survey ............................
Epworth Sleepiness Scale ...............
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index ........
Demographics and work experience
Sleep diary .......................................
Online training ..................................
Feedback about Training, Barriers,
and Influential People.
Changes in Behaviors after Training
Actigraph fitting and return ...............

60
60

1
3

2/60
10/60

2
30

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

...........................................................

........................

........................

........................

334

Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law

enforcement
enforcement
enforcement
enforcement
enforcement
enforcement
enforcement
enforcement

officers
officers
officers
officers
officers
officers
officers
officers

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Jeffery M. Zirger,
Acting Lead, Information Collection Review
Office, Office of Scientific Integrity, Office
of Science, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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[30Day–19–1100]

Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
has submitted the information
collection request titled ‘‘Identification
of Behavioral and Clinical Predictors of
Early HIV Infection (Project DETECT)’’
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. CDC
previously published a ‘‘Proposed Data
Collection Submitted for Public
Comment and Recommendations’’
notice on August 21, 2018 to obtain
comments from the public and affected
agencies. CDC received one (1) comment
related to the previous notice. This
notice serves to allow an additional 30
days for public and affected agency
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CDC will accept all comments for this
proposed information collection project.
The Office of Management and Budget
is particularly interested in comments
that:
(a) Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
(b) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agencies estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected;
(d) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including, through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses; and
(e) Assess information collection
costs.
To request additional information on
the proposed project or to obtain a copy
of the information collection plan and
instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or
send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Direct
written comments and/or suggestions
regarding the items contained in this
notice to the Attention: CDC Desk

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Officer, Office of Management and
Budget, 725 17th Street NW,
Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202)
395–5806. Provide written comments
within 30 days of notice publication.
Proposed Project
Identification of Behavioral and
Clinical Predictors of Early HIV
Infection (Project DETECT) (OMB No.
0920–1100, Exp. 2/28/2019)—
Extension—National Center for HIV/
AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB
Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
CDC requests a three-year OMB
approval to continue information
collection for ‘‘Project DETECT,’’ an
ongoing research study conducted by
the University of Washington (UW).
Study sites initiated information
collection in 2016 and CDC is
requesting OMB approval for three
additional years (2019–2022). The study
is designed to (1) identify behavioral
and clinical predictors of early HIV
infection, and (2) characterize the
performance of new HIV tests for
detecting established and early HIV
infection at the point of care (POC),
relative to each other and to currently
used gold standard, non-POC tests.
The primary study population is
persons at high risk for, or diagnosed
with HIV infection, many of whom will
be men who have sex with men (MSM)

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