Chesapeake Region Safety Council

Location & Date to be Announced

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) is a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) initiative to improve large truck and bus safety and ultimately reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities that are related to commercial motor vehicles. It introduces a new enforcement and compliance model that allows FMCSA and its State Partners to contact a larger number of carriers earlier in order to address safety problems before crashes occur. Rolled out in December 2010, the program establishes a new nationwide system for making the roads safer for motor carriers and the public.

This new program is based on the December 2012 changes to the CSA Safety Measurement System (SMS) Methodology.

This training will:

• Provide an overview of the FMCSA's Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA - formerly CSA 2010) program and a brief discussion of where the data used in CSA comes from

•  Help drivers understand what CSA is and what it means to them and their carrier, including FMCSA interventions

• Cover the seven BASICs (Behavior Analysis Safety Improvement Categories) used in the CSA Safety Measurement System (SMS):  Unsafe Driving – Hours of Service (HOS) Compliance – Driver Fitness – Controlled Substances and Alcohol – Vehicle Maintenance – Hazardous Materials (HM) Compliance – Crash Indicator

• Help drivers understand severity and time weighting of violations, calculation of BASIC measures ("normalizing" process) and peer comparison within Safety Group Events