[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 25 (Thursday, February 6, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6952-6953]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-02328]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[CDC-2019-0018; Docket Number NIOSH-328]


Final National Occupational Research Agenda for Healthy Work 
Design and Well-Being

AGENCY: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) 
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: NIOSH announces the availability of the final National 
Occupational Research Agenda for Healthy Work Design and Well-Being.

DATES: The final document was published on January 31, 2020 on the CDC 
website.

ADDRESSES: The document may be obtained at the following link: https://www.cdc.gov/nora/councils/hwd/research-agenda.html.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Emily Novicki, M.A., M.P.H. 
([email protected]), National Institute for Occupational Safety 
and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop V24-4, 
1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, phone (404) 498-2581 (not a 
toll free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 12, 2019, NIOSH published a request 
for public comment on the draft version of the National Occupational 
Research

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Agenda for Healthy Work Design and Well-Being (84 FR 8871). NIOSH 
received comments from eleven commenters. These commenters included 
academia, professional organizations, and the general public. All 
comments received were carefully reviewed and addressed where 
appropriate by the NORA Healthy Work Design and Well-Being Cross-Sector 
Council.
    Throughout the final document, the descriptive text and 
accompanying research objectives were revised and expanded in response 
to comments, usually to clarify meaning or add nuance. Among the 
changes, the background under Objective 2: Improve the Safety, Health, 
and Well-Being of Workers with Non-Standard Work Arrangements, was 
expanded to include additional survey data, discussion of holding 
multiple jobs simultaneously, and the connection between non-standard 
work arrangements and chronic opioid use. The research gaps were 
revised and expanded accordingly. The Council also clarified that 
interactions among research strategies aiming to address individual 
objectives are encouraged even when not explicitly noted as a means to 
identify and address solutions at the intersections of the objectives. 
A Response to Public Comment document can be found in the Supporting 
Documents tab for this docket on www.regulations.gov.

John J. Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2020-02328 Filed 2-5-20; 8:45 am]
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