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U.S. Department of TransportationFederal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Listening Session #2 12/10/2009

Comprehensive Safety Analysis

(CSA) 2010

Listening Session

How CSA 2010 Affects Motor Carriers and Drivers

December 10, 2009



Welcome

• Over 2200 locations participating

• Over 400 advance comments and questions– From carriers, agencies, associations, and individuals

– Covering about 20 major topics

• Submit more comments and questions throughout the webcast– Type them in on the lower right of your computer screen and

hit “send”

• Technical difficulties? Call 1-866-260-4631 for live aid.



Anne Ferro, FMCSA Administrator



Rose A. McMurray, FMCSA Acting Deputy Administrator



Presentation Agenda

• What’s Changing?

• Supplemental Agency Efforts

• What Can Carriers do to Prepare?

• What Can Drivers do to Prepare?

• Responses to your comments and

questionsTechnical difficulties? Call 1-866-260-4631 for live aid



Presenters

Gary Woodford,

Program Manager, CSA 2010

Steve Piwowarski,

CSA 2010 Training Manager,

National Training Center

Bryan Price,

Senior Transportation Specialist, FMCSA

Mark Savage,

Captain, Colorado State Patrol

Dan Meyer,

Captain, Kansas Highway Patrol



CSA 2010: What’s

Changing?

Technical difficulties? Call 1-866-260-4631 for live aid



New Measurement System

• Assesses safety of carriers and drivers based on unsafe

behaviors that lead to crashes

– Calculates safety performance based on 7 Behavior Analysis and Safety

Improvement Categories (BASICs)

– Weights time and severity of violations based on relation to crash risk

– Uses crash records and all safety-based violations observed at roadside

• Measures carrier safety performance with enhanced

information available to investigators relative to individual

driver performance

• In the future, measurement scores would support future

Safety Fitness Determinations (currently in rulemaking,

initial rollout of CSA 2010 is not dependent on rule)Technical difficulties? Call 1-866-260-4631 for live aid



New Agency Plans for Drivers

• The new Carrier Measurement System provides

internal tools, including enhanced information on

individual drivers, to investigators to more effectively

and efficiently conduct carrier investigations

– Tools allow for targeted sampling using enhanced driver

information

– Follow up on serious violations

• Under CSA 2010, individual drivers will not be

assigned safety ratings or safety fitness determinations




New Agency Plans for Drivers (cont’d)

• Other Agency initiatives are underway, including

the Pre-employment Screening Program (PSP)

– PSP was mandated by Congress and is not a part of CSA

2010

– “Driver Profiles” from FMCSA’s Driver

Information Resource (DIR) will be available to

carriers through PSP

– Driver Profiles will only be released with driver

authorization



New Interventions Process

The New Interventions Process addresses the…

• WHAT

Discovering violations anddefining the problem

• WHY Identifying the cause or where the processes broke down

• HOWDetermining how to fix it/prevent it through use of Safety Management Cycle and Safety Improvement Resources




Safety Management Cycle



New Intervention Toolbox

• New intervention tools reach more carriers and influence safety compliance earlier

• CSA 2010 also introduces a new tool to warn carriers ahead of time if they have a safety problem:

– Warning Letters

• CSA 2010 introduces three investigations types:

– Offsite Investigations

– Onsite Investigations –Focused

– Onsite Investigations –Comprehensive




New Intervention Toolbox (cont’d)

• CSA 2010 introduces additional follow-on corrective actions to increase carrier safety compliance

− Cooperative Safety Plan (CSP)

− Increased use of Notice of Violation (NOV)

• CSA 2010 is strong on enforcement and continues to employ the use of:

− Notice of Claim (NOC)

− Operations Out-of-Service Order (OOS)




New Information Supplied to Roadside

Inspectors

• SMS BASICs will replace SafeStat’s Safety

Evaluation Area (SEA) data sent to Roadside

Inspectors

– Assist in determining level of inspection

– North American Standard (NAS) inspections do not

change




Supplementary Agency

Efforts




Roadside Data Uniformity

• Data collected at the roadside is the foundation of all

data driven traffic safety initiatives

• CSA 2010 relies on roadside data in its SMS

Methodology

• The CSA 2010 SFD methodology would use roadside

data as a component of safety fitness determinations



Roadside Uniformity-Background

• Effort organized into four core initiatives:

1. Consistent documentation of roadside inspection and

violation data

2. Standardized processes for challenging data

3. Increased awareness of high level goals of the inspection

program

a) Good inspections can support systematic enforcement

program

b) Screening vs. Inspection

4. Uniform inspection selection processes



FMCSA Data Quality

• Quality data is key to CSA 2010 Operational

Model

• Comprehensive data quality program initiated

over 5 years ago

• Current data is useful and meaningful;

improvements can always be made

• DataQs Systems provides the public the

opportunity to challenge the accuracy of state

reported data (https://dataqs.fmcsa.dot.gov) Technical difficulties? Call 1-866-260-4631 for live aid

https://dataqs.fmcsa.dot.gov/



FMCSA’s Comprehensive State Data

Quality Program

FMCSA Data Quality

Improvement Program

Monthly Monitoring

of State Data Quality

ID & Develop Data Quality Improvement

Initiatives

Assistance for Safety Data

Improvement

New Applicant Screening

Census File Improvement

Ongoing Evaluation of State-

Reported Motor Carrier Crash and Inspection Data

Training (FMCSA,

State & Local Offices)

DataQs

UMTRI Off-site Analysis of

State Crash Data

Analysis and Improvement of State PARS

On-Site State Assessment

SaDIPGrants




State Data Quality Evaluation

• Ongoing evaluation shows improvements in

quality of state reported crash and inspection data

SSDQ Implemented

(March 2004)

25-month Improvement

(October 2009)

Mar 2004 Jun 2007 Sep 2007 Oct 2009

Good 24 38 27 41

Fair 13 10 16 8

Poor 14 3 8 2



Data Corrections (DataQs)

DataQs Data Challenges

Feb 2004 – Nov 2009

~67,000 Data challenges filed (65% resulting in data updates)

~1,700 New challenges per month

~30,000 General public/motor carrier registrations

~870 new general public/motor carrier registrations per month



CSA 2010: What Can

Carriers do to Prepare?




Educate Yourselves and Your Employees

• Understand SMS Methodology

• Understand the BASICs

• Check the website for more information and

updates (http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov )

• Raise drivers’ awareness that every

inspection counts and every violation counts


http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov/



Review and Update Your Data

• Ensure Motor Carrier Census (MCS-150 Form) is

up-to-date and accurate

• Routinely monitor and review inspection and crash

data

– Data currently available through FMCSA’s Portal

– Agency currently exploring option to give motor carrier’s the

ability to review their safety data organized by BASIC prior to

SMS launch; more information will be available in early 2010

• Question potentially incorrect data (DataQs)

• Maintain copies of inspection reports and evidence

related to any observed violations



Examine Business Processes

• Compare past violations to severity weightings

• Know why your trucks are getting inspected

• Understand where problem areas may exist by

identifying trends or patterns

• Implement policies and practices now to

address problem areas




CSA 2010: What Can

Drivers do to Prepare?




Recommended Driver Actions

• Understand the BASICs and new methodology

• Maintain copies of inspection reports

• Become knowledgeable about employers’ safety records by

checking carrier safety information at SafeStat on line

• Know and follow safety rules and regulations

– CMV web-based driving tips can be found at

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/about/outreach/education/driverTips/index.

htm

• Check the CSA 2010 website for more information and

updates (http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov )


http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/about/outreach/education/driverTips/index.htm

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/about/outreach/education/driverTips/index.htm

http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov/



In Summary

• CSA 2010 will introduce new concepts to the motor carrier

industry and to drivers:

– New measurement system

– New intervention process

– New information at roadside

• The Agency has additional programs on-going that will

benefit this data-driven operational model:

– Roadside Data Uniformity

– Data Quality

• There are many steps that motor carriers and drivers can

take today to prepare for CSA 2010 roll-out in the summer

of 2010



What’s Next?

• Provide us your feedback via the poll questions to follow

• Visit the web site to find answers to your remaining

questions

– Search our frequently asked questions by key word

– Review our fact sheets, brochures, briefings and the SMS methodology

document

– Look for a document in January that categorizes, consolidates and

answers many Listening Session questions

– If you still have a question, please send it to us through the feedback link

on the web site!



Responses to Participants Questions and

Comments

Steve Piwowarski,

CSA 2010 Training Manager, National Training Center

Bryan Price,

Senior Transportation Specialist, FMCSA

Mark Savage,

Captain, Colorado State Patrol

Chris Ryan,

Facilitator

Dan Meyer,

Captain, Kansas Highway Patrol


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