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The Insurance Zone - CSA 2010
By Shelly Benisch - Commercial Insurance Solutions
May 12, 2010 - 1:04:15 PM
There's a whole lot to this that can't be summed up in a few paragraphs, but the gist of it is that every month, "SMS"will measure the previous 2 years of roadside violation and crash data and calculate a score in seven safety behavior areas called "B.A.S.I.C"s, that include Unsafe Driving, Fatigued Driving, Driver Fitness, Alcohol and Substance, Vehicle Maintenance, Loading/Cargo and Crash.
Violations are based on the relationship to crash risk, so your score for each BASIC depends on the number of adverse safety events, their severity and when they happened. Then you're placed in a peer group of similar size or number of inspections. The score will be 1-100... 100 is bad.
The worse the score gets, the higher your chance for an "intervention" that can lead to "inspection". These scores will then lead to "Continue Operations", "Marginal" or "Unfit" ratings... I think you can figure out the rest.
There are currently 12,000 compliance audits per year. CSA 2010 plans on 175,000.
Please don't shoot the messenger... I knew you'd all want to know!
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