# Presentation: 923741

## Comprehensive Safety AnalysisCSA 2010 Overview

## What is CSA 2010?
Why CSA 2010?
CSA 2010 Description
Potential Benefits
Current Status/Operational Model Test
Outreach

- What is CSA 2010?
- Why CSA 2010?
- CSA 2010 Description
- Potential Benefits
- Current Status/Operational Model Test
- Outreach

## High priority FMCSA safety initiative -
Budget
Strategic planning
Entire Agency
To increase efficiency & effectiveness – compliance/enforcement
Ultimate Goal:  Achieve greater reduction in large truck and bus fatalities.

- High priority FMCSA safety initiative -
- Budget
- Strategic planning
- Entire Agency
- To increase efficiency & effectiveness – compliance/enforcement
- _Ultimate Goal:_  Achieve greater reduction in large truck and bus fatalities.

## Why CSA 2010?

**Notes:**
A graph showing number of fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled by year.  The years shown are 1975 through 2005.  The graph shows a gradual reduction in the fatality rate from 1980 to 2005.  The graph also points to motor carrier programs that came into place during a particular year.  These are:  the roadside inspection program in 1984; CR/Safety Rating in 1986; and PRISM SafeStat On-Line in 1999.

## A Tragic Reminder of the Importance of Motor Carrier Safety

**A Tragic Reminder of the Importance of Motor Carrier Safety**

**Notes:**
A photo of a CMV – car crash.

## CSA 2010 Description

- Current Operational Model Limitations
- Safety fitness determination tied to compliance review.
- Very labor intensive.
- _Result_:  We assess only small fraction of industry.
- Focus is on carriers.

## CSA 2010 Description

- CSA 2010 Operational Model ---
- Target unsafe behavior.
- Safety fitness tied to data; _not_ CR or only acute/critical violations.
- Broad array of _progressive_ interventions.
- Focus is on carriers _and_ drivers.
- Leverage new technology, training, and information.

## Four major elements ---
Measurement
Interventions
Safety Fitness Determination
IT/COMPASS

- Four major elements ---
- Measurement
- Interventions
- Safety Fitness Determination
- IT/COMPASS

## Safety Measurement Methodology vs. SafeStat

| Today’s Model SafeStat | CSA 2010’s SMS |
| --- | --- |
| Organized in general areas (4 SEAs) | Organized by behaviors (7 BASICs) |
| Identifies carriers for CR | Identifies safety problems in the same structure that CSA 2010 fixes the problems (Intervention by BASIC) |
| Uses only OOS and moving violations from inspections | Emphasizes on-road performance, using all safety-based inspection violations |
| No impact on safety rating | Used to propose adverse safety fitness determination
Proposed Rating Based Solely on Carriers Own Data |
| No risk based violation weightings | Risk based violation weightings |
| Assesses carriers only | Distinct systems assess carriers (CSMS) and individual drivers (DSMS) |

**Notes:**
A table comparing today’s SafeStat model with CSA 2010’s new safety measurement system.

## Behavioral Analysis & Safety Improvement Categories

**BASICs** for Carriers and Drivers
- _Behaviors That Lead To Crashes_
- Unsafe Driving
- Fatigued Driving
- Driver Fitness
- Controlled Substances and Alcohol
- Vehicle Maintenance
- Improper Loading/Cargo
- Crash Indicator

## Each BASIC –
Weighted for time/crash-risk
Normalized for exposure
Peer grouped
Data sufficiency tested
Updated every 30 days

- Weighted for time/crash-risk
- Normalized for exposure
- Peer grouped
- Data sufficiency tested
- Updated every 30 days

- CSA 2010 Measurement

## CSA 2010 Measurement

- Status ---
- Two Separate Measurement Systems – Prototype Stage
- Carriers and Drivers
- Potential to add others
- Measurement System Purpose ---
- To identify specific safety problems.
- To measure & monitor safety behavior.
- To “trigger” the intervention process & safety fitness determination
- To provide stakeholders important safety information.

## Good data critical to CSA 2010 success
FMCSA has major quality assurance function
CSA 2010-related data initiatives ---
Commercial driver conviction data to better support the BASICs
Driver positive drug test results – rulemaking to commence
Increase the number of post-crash inspections
Better specify Part 392.2 violations; not generic
Capture driver-related factors in all large truck and bus police accident reports

- Good data critical to CSA 2010 success
- FMCSA has major quality assurance function
- CSA 2010-related data initiatives ---
- Commercial driver conviction data to better support the BASICs
- Driver positive drug test results – rulemaking to commence
- Increase the number of post-crash inspections
- Better specify Part 392.2 violations; not generic
- Capture driver-related factors in all large truck and bus police accident reports

## Interventions

| Today’s Model  | CSA 2010 Interventions |
| --- | --- |
| Limited to compliance review (CR); complete review needed to rate carrier
 | Broad array of progressive interventions |
| CR is resource intense
 | More interventions; many less resource intense (e.g. off-site)
 |
| CR assesses broad compliance through rigid set of acute/critical regulations
 | Interventions target unsafe behavior
 |
| Generally, audit approach | Investigative approach; root cause and educational element |

**Notes:**
A table comparing FMCSA current model for CRs with CSA 2010’s Interventions.

## CSA 2010 Interventions - Carrier 

- Warning Letter
- Targeted Roadside Inspection
- Off-Site Investigation
- On-Site Investigation - Focused
- Cooperative Safety Plan
- Notice of Violation
- On-Site Investigation - Comprehensive
- Notice of Claim
- Settlement Agreement

**Increasing Severity**

## CSA 2010 Interventions - Carrier

- Intervention process triggered by:
- One or more deficient BASICs,
- High crash indicator, or
- Complaint or fatal crash.
- Intervention selection influenced by:
- Safety performance,
- HM or passenger carrier, and
- Intervention history.

## CSA 2010 Interventions - Carrier

- Status ---
- Carrier interventions developed
- Operational definitions developed for Phase I of Op-Model Test
- Intervention selection guidance has been finalized and is being examined as part of the Op-Model Test

## Today’s Model
SFD tied to compliance review
Satisfactory, Conditional, or Unsatisfactory
SFD effective until next CR
SFD based on acute/critical violations

- _Today’s Model_
- SFD tied to compliance review
- Satisfactory, Conditional, or Unsatisfactory
- SFD effective until next CR
- SFD based on acute/critical violations

- _CSA 2010_
- SFD tied to performance data; not necessarily CR
- Continue Operation, Marginal, or Unfit
- SFD assigned to all carriers with sufficient data; updated regularly
- SFD based on violations of all regulations

## CSA 2010 Safety Fitness Determination - Carrier

- Status for Motor Carriers
- Major rulemaking
- Revise Part 385, Safety Fitness Procedures
- NPRM publication targeted in 2008
- Status for Individual CMV Drivers
- Addressing through reauthorization

## COMPASS is FMCSA IT modernization initiative

COMPASS will support CSA 2010

COMPASS & CSA 2010 coordinating closely

- COMPASS is FMCSA IT modernization initiative
- COMPASS will support CSA 2010
- COMPASS & CSA 2010 coordinating closely

**CSA 2010 Proposed Operational Model**

**Notes:**
A flow chart showing the interrelationship among the major components of the CSA 2010 operational model.  Under the proposed model, motor carrier compliance activities and reports feed into safety data.  Safety data, in turn, is used to measure a carrier’s safety performance.  Based on the resulting safety evaluation, a carrier could be selected for an intervention.  In addition, a carrier could be assigned a rating of   1) continue to operate; 2) marginal; or 3) unfit.

## Potential Benefits – CSA 2010

- Maximize effectiveness of resources.
- Correct unsafe behavior early.
- Assess larger segment of industry.
- _Achieve Goal_:  Greater reduction in large truck and bus related fatalities.

## Purpose ---

Validate new operational model

Validate intervention process

Determine safety effectiveness 

- Purpose ---
- Validate new operational model
- Validate intervention process
- Determine safety effectiveness

## When ---
February 2008 to June 2010
Phase I – Startup Feb-08
Phase II – Fully Operational Oct-08
Report-out results throughout

- When ---
- February 2008 to June 2010
- Phase I – Startup Feb-08
- Phase II – Fully Operational Oct-08
- Report-out results throughout

## Where ---
Approximately 26 investigators state and federal
Four states – one in each FMCSA Service Center
Colorado
Georgia
Missouri
New Jersey

- Where ---
- Approximately 26 investigators state and federal
- Four states – one in each FMCSA Service Center
- Colorado
- Georgia
- Missouri
- New Jersey

## Which Carriers ---
Domiciled in one of the four test states
Exclusions
Carriers with compliance review in past 18 months
Chameleon carriers
In Phase I - SafeStat Category A/B carriers

- Which Carriers ---
- Domiciled in one of the four test states
- Exclusions
- Carriers with compliance review in past 18 months
- Chameleon carriers
- In Phase I - SafeStat Category A/B carriers

## How ---
Remaining carriers randomly split into two groups
Test group receives CSA 2010 interventions
Control group subject to current process
For comparison purposes
FMCSA providing no regulatory relief
Being in test group does not preclude enforcement
Test group carriers with poor performance and unresponsive to CSA 2010 interventions --- 
Will undergo today’s CR, and appropriate compliance and enforcement

- How ---
- Remaining carriers randomly split into two groups
- Test group receives CSA 2010 interventions
- Control group subject to current process
- For comparison purposes
- FMCSA providing _no_ regulatory relief
- Being in test group does not preclude enforcement
- Test group carriers with poor performance and unresponsive to CSA 2010 interventions ---
- Will undergo today’s CR, and appropriate compliance and enforcement

## CSA 2010 Status & Target Dates

- Most developmental work completed in Dec-07.
- Now entering test phase.
- Deploy carriers by 2010.  Drivers in reauthorization.

- 2006

- 2005

- 2008

- 2007

- 2010

- 2009

- Concept

- Development

- Test & Validate

- Deploy

- Add States

- Reauthorization

- CSA 2010 Team

**Notes:**
A timeline that shows the key target dates for CSA 2010.

## Six Listening Sessions --- Sept/Oct-04 
Listening Session – Nov-06
Washington, DC
Listening Session – Dec-07
Arlington, TX
Listening Session – Oct-08
Arlington, VA

- Six Listening Sessions --- Sept/Oct-04
- Listening Session – Nov-06
- Washington, DC
- Listening Session – Dec-07
- Arlington, TX
- Listening Session – Oct-08
- Arlington, VA

## CSA 2010

- Thank You
- For more information – or to submit questions or comments, please visit our Web site:
_**www.fmcsa.dot.gov/csa2010**_