Notice2023-15543
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
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July 21, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 139 (Friday, July 21, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47141-47142]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-15543]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-23-23CV]
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 ``Reducing Fatigue Among Taxi/Rideshare
Drivers'' 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 March 10,
2023 to obtain comments from the public and affected agencies. CDC
received four non-substantive comments related to the previous notice.
This notice serves to allow an additional 30 days for public and
affected agency comments.
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. Comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. Direct
written comments and/or suggestions regarding the items contained in
this notice to the Attention: CDC Desk 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
Reducing Fatigue Among Taxi/Rideshare Drivers--New--National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Taxi drivers routinely work long hours and late night or early
morning shifts. Shift work and long work hours are linked to many
health and safety risks due to disturbances to sleep and circadian
rhythms. Fatigue is a significant contributor to transportation-related
injuries, most notably among shift workers. Such work schedules and
inadequate sleep likely contribute to health issues and injuries among
taxi drivers who experience a roadway fatality rate of 3.5 times higher
than all civilian workers and had the highest rate of nonfatal work-
related motor vehicle injuries treated in emergency departments. The
urban and interurban transportation industry ranks the third highest in
costs per employee for motor vehicle crashes. Tired drivers endanger
others on the road (e.g., other drivers, passengers, bicyclists,
pedestrians) in addition to themselves and their passengers. An
important approach to reducing fatigue-related risks is to inform
employers and taxi drivers about the risks and strategies to reduce
their risks.
The purpose of this project is to evaluate a training program to
inform taxi drivers and other drivers for hire who transport passengers
(``rideshare'' services) of the risks linked to shift work and long
work hours and to evaluate strategies for taxi drivers to reduce these
risks. The proposed study site will be the Flywheel Taxi Company in San
Francisco, with approximately 500 drivers, who have agreed to share
data collected on the study participants. The recruitment of 180 study
participants and data collection onsite will be performed by a NIOSH
contractor trained by the NIOSH project personnel. This research study
involves two parts: development of a fatigue management eLearning
training tool designed for drivers-for-hire (e.g., taxi drivers; ride
sourcing drivers); and an evaluation of the use of this tool as an
intervention. The training tool will educate drivers about fatigue as a
risk factor for motor vehicle crashes, the negative health and safety
effects of fatigue, and how to reduce fatigue by improving sleep,
health, nutrition, and work schedules. There will be pre- and post-
module knowledge tests to evaluate the training. The training will be
offered online, free of charge, and will be viewable on multiple
platforms (e.g., smartphone, tablet, laptop). All participants will
also wear a wristband actigraph used to measure sleep/wake cycles,
which will serve as a second intervention. The actigraph data will
provide a personalized, objective daily measure of fatigue for each
participant. One group of participants will receive feedback (an
external prompt) from the actigraph which may be used to assess
individual fatigue level and trigger self-reflection on fitness to
drive and act accordingly.
A randomized pre-post with control group longitudinal study design
will evaluate the training and the driver's response to feedback from
the actigraph. Specifically, there are two intervention groups: (1)
training plus actigraph fatigue level feedback (N=60); and (2) training
only but no fatigue level feedback from the actigraph (N=60). The
control group (N=60) will receive neither training nor feedback on
fatigue level from their actigraph. Participants will complete a
baseline and follow-up Work and Health survey, sleep and activities
diaries, and sleep health knowledge questions during each of five
observation periods. The Work and Health survey administered in the
first observation period will be more comprehensive and the abbreviated
follow up Work and Health surveys administered for the remaining
observation periods will serve to capture only responses to questions
that can change from one observation period to the next. Only
participants randomly selected to take the training will complete a
training evaluation survey used to strengthen the training's
effectiveness. As part of their daily sleep and health diaries drivers
will be asked to complete three-minute psychomotor vigilance tests
(PVTs) five times throughout the day to directly measure
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alertness using an app installed on an electronic device. At the end of
the data collection period the training will be offered to the
remaining study participants who will be provided an opportunity to
complete the training and training evaluation survey.
Study staff will use the findings from this evaluation to improve
the training program, including content and delivery, as well as
compare fatigue between intervention groups. Potential impacts of this
project include improvements in work behaviors for coping with shift
work and long work hours and an objective reduction in fatigue compared
to the control groups. This project is poised to have considerable
impact in the contribution of an evidence base for effective
interventions that could be used by other taxi companies and drivers
for ride sourcing companies to promote strategies in road safety.
All study participants (N=180) will be fitted with a wrist
actigraph. All study participants will complete the Work and Health
survey, and the knowledge survey during each study observation period
(five times each per participant). All participants will complete the
sleep and activity diary five times a day, each day for 35 days (175
times total) which will require approximately five minutes for each
response which includes both survey questions and the Psychomotor
Vigilance Test. Participants in the intervention groups (N=120) will
complete the online training and evaluation. For purposes of burden
estimation, the total number of annualized participants is 90, the
annualized number of participants in the control group is 30, and the
total annualized number of participants in the intervention groups is
60. Information collection is the same for all participants, except for
the Fatigue Training Evaluation Survey which will only be completed by
participants in the intervention groups.
CDC requests OMB approval for two years. Participation is voluntary
and there are no costs to participants other than their time. The total
estimated annualized burden is 1,794 hours.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response
respondents respondent (in hours)
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Taxi and Rideshare Drivers............ Fatigue Training 60 1 15/60
Evaluation Survey.
Actigraph Training and 90 1 10/60
Fitting.
Sleep & Activities Diary 90 175 5/60
(including Psychomotor
Vigilance Test).
Work & Health Survey.... 90 5 45/60
Knowledge Survey........ 90 5 15/60
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Public Health
Ethics and Regulations, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2023-15543 Filed 7-20-23; 8:45 am]
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