[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 170 (Thursday, September 2, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48183-48184]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-22866]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[INFO-99-27]
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 the CDC Reports
Clearance Officer on (404) 639-7090.
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 for other forms of information
technology. Send comments to Seleda Perryman, CDC Assistant Reports
Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24, Atlanta, GA 30333.
Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Evaluation of NIOSH Fire Fighter Alert (Structural Collapse)--New--
The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). An
Alert documents the scientific research about an occupational health
and safety hazard and provides recommendations for assessing, avoiding,
or reducing the hazard. The Alert is probably the National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health's (NIOSH) best tool for addressing
risks of great immediate danger involving hazards to life and health.
Even though the Alert can be termed an important tool, prior to 1999 no
rigorous test of Alert efficacy had ever been conducted. During the
past year, NIOSH began the first rigorous test of one NIOSH Alert on
the dangers of structural collapse among fire fighters. This testing
was done with a sample of fire fighters, and on the basis of this
sample, a national distribution strategy for the Alert will follow.
This Alert contains recommendations with important safety and
health implications for more than one million fire fighters in over
36,000 fire fighter units. Morbidity and mortality rates are relatively
high for this occupation, which increases the need for effective
communication strategies when reporting safety and health
recommendations.
The formative research phase done this year by NIOSH's Health
Communication Research Branch and Division for Safety Research will
produce data with strong levels of internal and external validity.
However, the formative phase is only aimed at designing effective
messages and not aimed at understanding the impact of those messages in
the final distribution of the Alert. NIOSH believes that it is
reasonable to: (1) Conduct an evaluation of the national distribution
of the Alert to determine its final impact and (2) identify the
characteristics of those fire fighter units that may not have met
optimal levels of communication effect (receiver awareness,
comprehension, acceptance, and use).
The specific goals of this investigation are to: (1) Assess the
communication effect of NIOSH recommendations contained within the
Alert on structural collapse and (2) identify the characteristics
(behavioral, normative, and control beliefs, and demographics) of
receivers who fail to meet minimum levels of communication effect.
A standardized questionnaire developed and approved for the
formative research phase will be used to assess communication effect.
Items will identify the extent of receiver awareness, comprehension,
acceptance, and use of the Alert. The Theory of Planned Behavior will
be used to help identify the factors that mediate this communication
effect, and relevant questions will be added to the existing
questionnaire.
The data collected in this study will be used to assess the
communication effect of the national distribution of the Alert by
comparing the means between the respondents in the formative evaluation
and the respondents in the national distribution. This data also will
be used to identify the characteristics of those fire fighter units
that may not have met optimal levels of communication effects. The
total cost to respondents is estimated at $4,500.00.
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Number of Avg. burden
Respondents Number of responses/ response (in Total burden
respondents respondent hrs.) (in hrs.)
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Fire Fighters................................... 1000 1 .25 250
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Total................................... .............. .............. .............. 250
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Dated: August 27, 1999.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 99-22866 Filed 9-1-99; 8:45 am]
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