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The driver safety score available in the Dashboard and Reports tabs is calculated for every driver once a week, using the vehicle’s tracker data. If a vehicle has a camera installed, the Video weekly safety score is available instead in the Video tab.
Only customers with the appropriate permissions can view any safety score. This is because it includes sensitive information about drivers.
It is essential that drivers are assigned to the correct vehicles for this feature to be accurate and useful.
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The safety score is a number between 0 and 100 that uses tracker data to determine how safe a driver is each week. The lower the score, the higher the risk that the driver could be involved in a serious incident in the future.
Each week, the safety score resets to 100. Starting from 100, the safety score is negatively impacted by the following factors detected during the week:
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Unsafe driving behaviors detected by the tracker:
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Hard braking
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Hard acceleration
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Harsh cornering
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Distance traveled
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For example, a driver with more harsh driving events who has traveled further might have a better safety score than another driver with less harsh driving events.
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Event severity
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The severity of the events is determined by various factors such as the acceleration, deceleration, duration and vehicle type.
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Total number of events triggered.
These factors combine to create point values that are deducted from 100. This produces the weekly safety score.
The benchmark for the safety score is set to 80 by default but you can change this in My Benchmarks.
Safer driving can result in a score closer to 100. However, other factors that may influence a driver's score are:
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Privacy mode.
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No travel or traveling a short distance.
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If the distance traveled during one week is less than 10 miles (16 km) . This may not be enough driving data to provide an accurate safety score for this week.
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Installation and configuration.
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If the vehicle tracker is not working properly. For example, the tracker was not installed correctly or accurately configured.
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High speed events and risky driving hours do not impact the score.
For the reasons stated above, it is important that fleet managers do not use driver safety scores to compare the performance of drivers in their fleet. Instead, the score should be used to identify areas of discussion with the driver, with the aim of reducing the risk of serious incidents and improving the overall safety of individual drivers over time.
It is important to assign drivers to the correct vehicles for the safety score to be useful. Assignment ensures data consistency for evaluating driver performance.
To ensure that safety score data, driver vehicle inspection reports and other reports are accurate, do the following:
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Assign drivers to vehicles. This can be done:
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Remotely, for example by a driver using a key fob.
The Driving Style Summary Report can help to identify which harsh driving events drivers should focus on reducing or improving. Numbers that display in red on this report indicate that the events negatively impacted the driver's safety score by at least 30%.
You can review harsh driving events in the Harsh driving incident report and in Replay.
How is the safety score in the Dashboard and Reports tabs different to the Integrated Video safety score?
The safety score found in the Dashboard tab, Driving style summary report and Custom summary report is not related to the Video safety score. The scores are independent of one another, and do not share the same calculation or data set.
The safety score found in the Dashboard tab only uses data from the vehicle tracker in its calculations. The Video safety score uses data from all of the following:
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Vehicle tracker
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Cloud AI
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Camera AI (if an AI Dashcam is installed)