Take the CSA hazmat category score public? FMCSA wants to, seeks comment in Federal Register

As reported previously in Overdrive, the movement against the public nature of the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program’s Safety Measurement System’s BASIC category scores has grown exponentially over the year and more following critical Congressional reports on the program. Amid that growth, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is proposing to take yet another BASIC score public, one of several enhancements it’s proposing for the SMS, which the agency uses to measure the safety of motor carriers and prioritize carriers for intervention actions.

In addition to taking the hazmat BASIC public, a move made more significant with the recent policy change integrating hazmat SMS scores into the permitting process, the FMCSA’s proposal includes the following changes:

•Change some of the SMS intervention thresholds to better reflect the correlation between the Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASIC) to crash risk

•Segment the hazmat compliance BASIC by cargo tank and non-cargo tank carriers

•Reclassify violations for operating while out of service as under the Unsafe Driving BASIC instead of the BASIC of the underlying OOS violation

•Increase the maximum vehicle miles traveled used in the utilization factor to more accurately reflect operations of high-utilization carriers

FMCSA says the proposed changes to the SMS are a direct result of feedback from stakeholders and the agency’s ongoing improvement efforts.

The document was published in the Federal Register on Monday, June 29, where it will be open for comments for 30 days. Comments are due by July 29, 2015.

Follow this link or search Docket No. FMCSA–2015-0149 on regulations.gov to comment on the proposed changes. –Todd Dills also contributed to this report.

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