Question 1

What is an Oversight Agency (OA)?

Accepted Answer

An Oversight Agency is an approved entity with employees or members that agrees to distribute a custom NOS survey link to their database. UAS will never access their database and will provide a survey link to be distributed by the OA to their database.

Question 2

Who can participate as an Oversight Agency in this study?

Accepted Answer

Any transportation entity that has a database of employees or members (such as a Union) and is willing to distribute a custom NOS survey link to their database once the study has been launched.

Question 3

Is there a minimum or maximum number of employees/members for an entity to be considered an Oversight Agency?

Accepted Answer

The research team will consider any transportation entity that has employees or members. We will actively seek entities with larger employee/member bases but will consider smaller groups as well. Entities can have as few as 10 employees/members or as many as 100,000+ in the United States and in other countries.

Question 4

As an OA, can we request custom questions for multiple subset groups?"

Accepted Answer

Yes, prior to February 28, 2021, you may request custom survey questions to be drafted for multiple groups. For example, 1) Trucking Company #1 requests custom questions for its drivers and for its distribution center workers; 2) while Trucking Company #2 requests questions only for its drivers; 3) a railway requests custom questions for its Engineers and station agents; and 3) an airline requests custom questions for its Flight Attendants, Pilots, and Ground Crew. The requests can be customized to each OA based upon their staffing needs. The research team will provide a form to be completed by the OA and the groups will be identified on that form. The research team will then draft custom survey questions for each group. An OA may add additional subset groups after the November 1 deadline but the subset(s) will be asked the baseline questions already drafted and not custom questions.

Question 5

What responsibility does an Oversight Agency have?

Accepted Answer

The OA is responsible to distribute a custom NOS survey link to their database of employees/members. The NOS for Transportation allows for custom survey questions for multiple subsets in each mode of transportation, so if the OA would like custom questions for multiple groups, an interview will be set up to confirm details of each group. There is minimum time commitment to participate as an OA. Each OA's participation is appreciated and will help us reach a larger population of survey respondents across the transportation industry.

Question 6

Is there a deadline to become an Oversight Agency?

Accepted Answer

The window to sign up to become an Oversight Agency in the first launch is now closed.
 
Entities in the transportation industry, service providers, or those who work with sex and/or labor trafficking survivors can sign up for our second launch (https://form.jotform.com/211894776180162)in September 2021.

Question 7

How do I/we get signed up as an Oversight Agency?

Accepted Answer

Please click this link (https://form.jotform.com/211894776180162)to proceed.

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