Request for Nonsubstantive Change #0920-1343_

Request for Non-substantive Change

Examining Safety and Health among Aviation Industry Workers in Alaska: A Survey

OMB Approval #0920-1343 – Expiration date 07/31/2023

Justification for Non-substantive change:

NIOSH is requesting a non-substantive change request for 0920-1343 to add updated information to the informed consent, recruitment and reminder documents, and add a script for follow-up telephone calls. These changes are necessary as we have finalized telephone and email contact information for questions from operators and workers, the time to complete the surveys is added to the recruitment letters, and we have added an additional researcher who will be involved in the data collection, analysis, and reporting process.

Modifications include the Federal Aviation Administration’s source of the 14 CFR Part 135 certificate holders is changed from the original estimated data source. Other modifications include modification of recruitment letters to distinguish operators doing business under another name, addition of a reminder email for nonrespondents, and a telephone follow-up script for operators and workers to increase response rates. We have eliminated a letter of support which was to be included in the recruitment package, references to this letter are deleted from the recruitment packets and the methodology. Below is a list of the revised and new documents.

Existing documents being updated

Recruitment letter for operators (Attachment 5a)

Recruitment letter for workers (Attachment 5b)

Consent Form for workers (Attachment 6b)

Consent Form for operators (Attachment 6a)

Reminder Postcard for workers (Attachment 7a)

Reminder Postcard for operators (Attachment 7b)

New documents being added to the ICR

Survey Advertising Flyer (Attachment 9)

Reminder email for workers (Attachment 11)

Reminder email for operators (Attachment 12)

Script for follow-up interviews- workers (Attachment 13)

Script for follow-up interviews- operators (Attachment 14)

The data collection tools have not changed and the burden hours and costs will not be affected by these proposed changes.