[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 248 (Friday, December 27, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71478-71480]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-27949]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. OSHA-2010-0022]
Student Data Form; Extension of the Office of Management and
Budget's (OMB) Approval of Information Collection (Paperwork)
Requirements
AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public comments concerning the proposal to
extend the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of the
information collection requirements contained in the Student Data Form.
DATES: Comments must be submitted (postmarked, sent, or received) by
February 25, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Electronically: You may submit comments and attachments
electronically at http://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal
eRulemaking Portal. Follow the instructions online for submitting
comments.
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Facsimile: If your comments, including attachments, are not longer
than 10 pages you may fax them to the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-
1648.
Mail, hand delivery, express mail, messenger, or courier service:
When using this method, you must submit a copy of your comments and
attachments to the OSHA Docket Office, Docket Number OSHA-2010-0022,
U.S. Department of Labor, Room N-3653, 200 Constitution Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20210. Deliveries (hand, express mail, messenger, and
courier service) are accepted during the Docket Office's normal
business hours, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., ET.
Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and the
OSHA docket number (OSHA-2010-0022) for this Information Collection
Request (ICR). All comments, including any personal information you
provide, such as social security number and date of birth, are placed
in the public docket without change, and may be made available online
at http://www.regulations.gov. For further information on submitting
comments see the ``Public Participation'' heading in the section of
this notice titled SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
Docket: To read or download comments or other material in the
docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov or the OSHA Docket Office at
the above address. All documents in the docket (including this Federal
Register notice) are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index;
however, some information (e.g., copyrighted material) is not publicly
available to read or download from the website. All submissions,
including copyrighted material, are available for inspection and
copying at the OSHA Docket Office. You may also contact Theda Kenney at
the below phone number to obtain a copy of the ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Theda Kenney or Seleda Perryman,
Directorate of Standards and Guidance, OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor;
telephone (202) 693-2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of the continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent (i.e., employer) burden, conducts a
preclearance consultation program to provide the public with an
opportunity to comment on proposed and continuing collection of
information requirements in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program ensures that
information is in the desired format, reporting burden (time and costs)
is minimal, collection instruments are clearly understood, and OSHA's
estimate of the information collection burden is accurate. The
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) (29 U.S.C. 651 et
seq.) authorizes information collection by employers as necessary or
appropriate for enforcement of the OSH Act or for developing
information regarding the causes and prevention of occupational
injuries, illnesses, and accidents (29 U.S.C. 657). The OSH Act also
requires that OSHA obtain such information with minimum burden upon
employers, especially those operating small businesses, and to reduce
to the maximum extent feasible unnecessary duplication of efforts in
obtaining information (29 U.S.C. 657).
The OSH Act authorizes the OSHA to conduct education and training
courses (29 U.S.C. 670). These courses must educate an adequate number
of qualified personnel to fulfill the purposes of the OSH Act, provide
them with short-term training, inform them of the importance and proper
use of safety and health equipment, and train employers and workers to
recognize, avoid, and prevent unsafe and unhealthful working
conditions.
Under Section 21 of the OSH Act, the OSHA Training Institute (the
Institute) provides basic, intermediate, and advanced training and
education in occupational safety and health for state compliance
officers, agency professionals and technical support personnel,
employers, workers, organizations representing workers and employers,
educators who develop curricula and teach occupational safety and
health courses, and representatives of professional safety and health
groups. The Institute provides courses on occupational safety and
health at the national training facility in Arlington Heights,
Illinois.
Students attending Institute courses complete the one-page Student
Data Form (OSHA Form 182) on the first day of class. The form provides
information under five major categories titled ``Course Information,''
``Personal Data,'' ``Employer Data,'' ``Emergency Contacts,'' and
``Student Groups.'' The OSHA Directorate of Training and Education (the
Directorate) compiles, for each fiscal year, the following information
from the ``Course Information'' and ``Student Groups'' categories:
total student attendance at the Institute; the number of students
attending each training course offered by the Institute; and the types
of students attending these courses (for example, students from federal
or state occupational safety and health agencies). The Directorate uses
this information to demonstrate, in an accurate and timely manner, that
the agency is providing the training and worker education mandated by
Section 21 of the OSH Act. OSHA also uses this information to evaluate
training output, and to make decisions regarding program/course
revisions, budget support, and tuition costs.
The agency uses the information collected under the ``Course
Information,'' ``Personal Data,'' and ``Employer Data'' to identify
private sector students so that it can collect tuition costs from them
or their employers as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 9701 (``Fees and Charges
for Government Services and Things of Value''); Office of Management
and Budget Circular A-25 (``User Charges''); and 29 CFR part 1949
(``Directorate of Training and Education, Occupational Safety and
Health Administration''). The information in the ``Personal Data'' and
``Emergency Contacts'' categories permits OSHA to contact students who
are residing in local hotels/motels if an emergency arises at their
home or place of employment, and to alert supervisors/alternate
contacts of a trainee's injury or illness.
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in comments on the following issues:
Whether the proposed information collection requirements
are necessary for the proper performance of the agency's functions,
including whether the information is useful;
The accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden (time
and costs) of the information collection requirements, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
The quality, utility, and clarity of the information
collected; and
Ways to minimize the burden on employers who must comply;
for example, by using automated or other technological information
collection and transmission techniques.
III. Proposed Actions
The agency is requesting an adjustment decrease of 67 burden hours
(from 400 hours to 333 hours) as a result of the decreasing number of
students attending the Institute from 5,000 to 4,000 students. The
agency will summarize the comments submitted in response to this
notice, and will include this summary in the request for approval to
OMB.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
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Title: Student Data Form (OSHA Form 182).
OMB Control Number: 1218-0172.
Affected Public: Individuals; business or other for-profit
organizations; Federal government; State, Local, or Tribal governments.
Number of Respondents: 4,000.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Total Responses: 4,000.
Average Time per Response: 5 minutes (5/60 hour).
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 333 hours.
Estimated Cost (Operation and Maintenance): $0.
IV. Public Participation--Submission of Comments on This Notice and
Internet Access to Comments and Submissions
You may submit comments in response to this document as follows:
(1) Electronically at http://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal
eRulemaking Portal; (2) by facsimile (fax); or (3) by hard copy. All
comments, attachments, and other material must identify the agency name
and the OSHA docket number (OSHA-2010-0022) for this ICR. You may
supplement electronic submissions by uploading document files
electronically. If you wish to mail additional materials in reference
to an electronic or a facsimile submission, you must submit them to the
OSHA Docket Office (see the section of this notice titled ADDRESSES).
The additional materials must clearly identify your electronic comments
by your name, date, and the docket number so the agency can attach them
to your comments.
Because of security procedures, the use of regular mail may cause a
significant delay in the receipt of comments. For information about
security procedures concerning the delivery of materials by hand,
express delivery, messenger or courier service, please contact the OSHA
Docket Office at (202) 693-2350, (TTY (877) 889-5627).
Comments and submissions are posted without change at http://www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA cautions commenters about
submitting personal information such as social security numbers and
dates of birth. Although all submissions are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index, some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to read or download from this
website. All submissions, including copyrighted material, are available
for inspection and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. Information on
using the http://www.regulations.gov website to submit comments and
access the docket is available at the website's ``User Tips'' link.
Contact the OSHA Docket Office for information about materials not
available from the website, and for assistance in using the internet to
locate docket submissions.
Electronic copies of this Federal Register document are available
at http://www.regulations.gov. This document, as well as news releases
and other relevant information, are available at OSHA's web page at
http://www.osha.gov.
V. Authority and Signature
Loren Sweatt, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health, directed the preparation of this
notice. The authority for this notice is the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3506 et seq.) and Secretary of Labor's Order No. 1-2012
(77 FR 3912).
Signed at Washington, DC, on December 19, 2019.
Loren Sweatt,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety
and Health.
[FR Doc. 2019-27949 Filed 12-26-19; 8:45 am]
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