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Comprehensive Safety Analysis (CSA) 2010
Overview and Oversize/Overweight Discussion
June 2009
U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
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Presentation Agenda
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Brief Summary of CSA 2010
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New Operational Model:
Measurement System and
Interventions
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Oversize/Overweight Violations
and Impact to Carriers
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CSA 2010 Overview: The Safety Challenge
FMCSA’s Safety Challenge:
A growing carrier population and stable/unchanging
FMCSA resources call for a more efficient and effective
program
The response: CSA 2010!
CSA 2010 a pro-active safety program based on a scientific
model, which
• Promotes accountability and strong enforcement as top priorities
• Extends FMCSA’s reach to more carriers and drivers with safety
problems
• Improves FMCSA’s ability to identify safety problems earlier
through better use of data
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CSA 2010 Overview: How Does CSA 2010 Work?
• New Safety Measurement System (SMS)
– Improved ability to identify and target demonstrated safety problems
• Broad array of interventions
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Introduces some new tools that are less time consuming than CRs
Allows investigators to contact more carriers
Shifts investigator focus from not only “what” but “why”
Provides information to guide carriers to fix safety problems before crashes
occur
• CSA 2010 test and implementation
– Being tested in 6 states, including Missouri, where 50% of the carrier
population is covered
– Full implementation scheduled for summer 2010
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CSA 2010 Overview: Measurement BASICs
Measure carrier and driver performance using
Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories
(BASICs):
•Unsafe Driving
•Fatigued Driving
•Driver Fitness
•Controlled Substances/Alcohol
•Vehicle Maintenance
•Improper Loading/Cargo
•Crash Indicator
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CSA 2010 Overview: Major Changes
Today’s Measurement System
CSA 2010 SMS
Organized by broad Safety Evaluation
Areas (SEA)
Organized by specific Behavior Analysis
Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs)
Identifies carrier for one-size-fits-all
compliance review (CR) regardless of area
to be improved
Identifies carriers for different levels of
investigations based on specific safety issues
Weighs all Out-of-Service (OOS) and
acute/critical violations equally
Uses risk-based weightings to incorporate
links to crash causation
Assesses carriers only
Assesses carriers and drivers
Uses only OOS and acute/critical violations Uses all roadside data
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New Op-model: Intervention Toolbox
CSA 2010’s Comprehensive Intervention Process provides
more tools to reach more carriers and compel safety compliance
before crashes occur.
•Warning Letters
•Investigations
– On-site comprehensive investigations
(enhanced compliance review)
– On-site focused investigations
– Off-site investigations
•Follow-on corrective actions
– Out-of-Service (OOS) orders
– Notice of Violation
– Notice of Claim
– Cooperative Safety Plan
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New Op-model: Intervention Toolbox Benefits
Today’s Model
CSA 2010 Interventions
One tool; one-size-fits-all
Set of tools to use based on carriers’ safety
problems
Broad examination of carrier; audit
approach
Ability to focus on carrier’s specific safety
problems
Focuses on broad compliance based on
rigid set of acute/critical violations
Focuses on improving behaviors that are
linked to crash causation
Very resource intensive
Less resource intensive for agency and less
time consuming for carrier
One-size-fits-all approach regardless of
level of safety deficiency
New approach to investigating and
contacting carriers
Less carriers contacted
More carriers contacted
Discover what safety problem is and issue
a fine
Discover and address why carrier has a
safety problem
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New Op-model: Intervention Process Overview
The Intervention Process is focused on the
What, Why, and How
What is the
violation?
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What Safety
Management
Process is
broken/ missing?
Why is the
Process breaking
down?
How can the
carrier best
address these
process
breakdowns?
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New Op-model: Intervention Process Step 1
Step 1: Examine Measurement data that contributed to deficient
Cargo Securement/Improper Loading BASIC
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New Op-model: Intervention Process Step 2
Step 2: Diagnose the safety issue through questioning,
discussion and collaborative problem solving
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New Op-model: Intervention Process Step 3
Step 3:
Share information with the
carrier about the Safety
Management Cycle with
safety improvement practices
that are appropriate to the
given carrier’s safety issue;
this step may be followed by
enforcement action or other
follow on intervention
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Oversize/Overweight Under CSA 2010
Oversize and overweight violations are included in
SMS and therefore could result in a carrier
investigation
– In SafetStat 392.2W violations were only used if they
were OOS. This was less than 1% of the time.
– Since October in Missouri
• 27 carriers were investigated with Cargo BASIC
deficiencies
• Of these 7 were only deficient in the Cargo BASIC
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Oversize/Overweight Violations
Size & weight violations (392.2W) in SMS
• Used in calculating Improper Loading/Cargo
Securement BASIC
• Are influential in determining problems for the BASIC:
– Severity weight of “7” on 1 to 10 Scale
– Constitutes over 40% of all violations cited within Improper
Loading/Cargo Securement BASIC
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Re-Cap of Key Points
CSA 2010 is pro-active in improving enforcement
efficiencies and protecting lives.
– Using roadside inspection results and crash reports,
FMCSA will identify safety problems and will contact more
carriers earlier.
– Every inspection counts.
– OS/OW violations will put carriers on FMCSA’s radar.
For more information visit: www.fmcsa.dot.gov/csa2010
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