Att I_NIOSH HRPP Exemption Determination

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

Public Health Service
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC)

Memorandum
Date

March 16, 2021

From

Angela M. Morley
Chair, NIOSH Institutional Review Board

Subject

IRB Exemption Determination for NIOSH Protocol 21-NIOSH-06, "A Baseline of Injury
and Psychosocial Stress for Applied Behavior Analysis Workers"

To

Anne Foreman
Project Officer, NIOSH/HELD
On behalf of the NIOSH Human Research Protection Program (HRPP), I reviewed the
request to exempt 21-NIOSH-06, "A Baseline of Injury and Psychosocial Stress for
Applied Behavior Analysis Workers", and find this research activity is exempt under
45 C.F.R. 46.104(d)(2)(ii). You are required to close out exempt protocols as soon as
CDC staff are no longer involved in the research activity. NIOSH HRPP may follow up
with you periodically to check the status of NIOSH involvement in this research activity.
The subjects must have attained the legal age for consent to procedures involved in the
research, under the applicable law of the jurisdiction(s) in which the research will be
conducted.
Due to the funding and collection of identifiable, sensitive information the project is
determined to be covered by a Certificate of Confidentiality under section 301(d) of the
Public Health Service Act.

Please be aware changes to this exempt protocol may not be implemented until they
are reviewed by the NIOSH HRPP and determined to be consistent with the
exemption categories.
Please also be advised investigators remain responsible for the ethical conduct of this
study and for ensuring appropriate human research protections even for research that is
exempt from the regulations governing the protection of human subjects in research.
Please inform NIOSH HRPP of any incident.
If you have questions, please contact the HRPP at NIOSH IRB Mailbox, or by telephone
at (513) 533-8591.