Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories

Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs)... 

Every month, SMS measures the previous 24 months of roadside violation and crash data performance and calculates a score in the seven Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICS). 

Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs) Seven categories of safety behaviors measured in the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) Safety Measurement System (SMS). The BASICs represent behaviors that can lead to crashes. The BASICs are unsafe driving, hours-of-service compliance, driver fitness, controlled substances/alcohol, vehicle maintenance, hazardous materials (HM) compliance, and crash indicator. 

Safety-related events that enter the CSA SMS through the FMCSA data collections system (MCMIS) are placed into one of seven B ASICs (Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories). These BASICs are compliance areas, and are based on the FMCSA regulations (with the exception of the Crash BASIC, which simply tracks a carrier s crashes). The BASICs (and related regulatory Parts) are ... 

The goal of this manual is to explain the Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs) that affect both a carrier s and driver s scoring as filtered through the Safety Measurement System (SMS). This score has the potential to result in an intervention by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). Carriers with the most severely rated violations during roadside inspections and/or interventions that failed to achieve safety improvements could see their ability to operate under their USDOT number suspended. 

New Safety Measurement System (SMS). SMS replaces SafeStat in an effort to improve FMCSA s ability to identify demonstrated safety problems. FMCSA has transferred all safety-related data from SafeStat to SMS and is using the Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs) scoring system rather than the Safety Evaluation Areas (SEAs) used previously under SafeStat. 

This model automatically categorizes data into behavioral areas, or Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs). BASICS represent behaviors that lead to or increase the consequences of crashes. Rather than rel3dng solely on the resrdts of a comphance... 

By performing a self-audit on yoru- Controlled Substances and Alcohol BASIC (Behavioral Analysis and Safety Improvement Category), you may be able to reduce the nrunber of violations and accidents attributed to your carrier. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) suggests using a safety management cycle as a means of continuously improving yoru- safety comphance efforts. 

Financial responsibility used to be under Factor 1 of the former methodology. Today, it has not been assigned a specific Behavioral Analysis and Safety Improvement Category (BASIC). 

Safety Measurement System (SMS) is a tool for assessing available roadside performance data. These data are used to rank entities performance relative to their peers in any of six Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs) as well as crash involvement (Crash Indicator). Rankings within these BASICs and the Crash Indicator will be used by law enforcement to select entities for appropriate interventions... 

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