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Informed risk management is a critical component of any safety-focused business and SambaSafety is driven by a profound purpose: to provide its customers with the insights and tools necessary to confidently make and manage risk-related decisions. With a focus on driver qualification and safety, SambaSafety’s CEO, Mike Scheuing and Chief Product Officer, Rich Lacey say they…

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Informed risk management is a critical component of any safety-focused business and SambaSafety is driven by a profound purpose: to provide its customers with the insights and tools necessary to confidently make and manage risk-related decisions.

With a focus on driver qualification and safety, SambaSafety’s CEO, Mike Scheuing and Chief Product Officer, Rich Lacey say they ensure businesses only put qualified drivers behind the wheel, prioritizing the safety of communities. This episode of the show also reveals Samba as the industry’s sole provider offering nationwide monitoring of Motor Vehicle Records (MVR) and Compliance, Safety, and Accountability (CSA), integrated with telematics and training, SambaSafety delivers a comprehensive risk management solution through a unified platform.

SambaSafety has taken a step further by integrating telematics and camera data from providers into their risk management solution. This integration streamlines the extraction of insights, enabling businesses to respond to risk more efficiently. By centralizing and normalizing telematics data with MVR and claims data, SambaSafety generates a holistic risk profile for each driver. This empowers businesses to make informed decisions that significantly impact the safety of their fleets.

SambaSafety’s platform provides real-time alerts, delivering contextualized information to fleet managers. Through geolocation mapping, managers can quickly review alerts upon a driver’s return. For instance, if a driver is caught using their phone while driving, the platform showcases the exact location where the event occurred. This allows for swift action and enables managers to provide intelligent training recommendations tailored to specific alerts and vehicle types. By coaching drivers based on their behaviors, Samba Safety ensures they possess the necessary knowledge, skills, and confidence to operate safely.

The platform offers driver profiles that aggregate relevant information from motor vehicle records, regulatory sources, and telematics devices. One key feature is the driver risk index, which provides a normalized score based on high-risk behaviors per one hundred miles driven. This score, accompanied by a detailed breakdown of contributing events and their assigned weight, facilitates easy identification and prompt action on risky behaviors. Whether it’s phone use, collisions, or smoking, safety managers can assess risk consistently across their fleet. With configurable weightings, the score aligns with each company’s unique safety policy, ensuring accurate risk representation.

SambaSafety’s comprehensive platform simplifies and empowers fleet risk management. By consolidating all driver and vehicle data into a single view, businesses gain quick access, analysis, and resolution of high-risk activities. Integrating existing telematics data sources with SambaSafety’s risk management platform yields significant benefits, including a 16% reduction in monthly crashes, a 40% improvement in driver engagement, and a 50% reduction in manual data management. SambaSafety’s informed risk management solutions is compatible with leading telematics providers, making it a versatile choice for transforming driver safety programs.

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We deeply believe in our purpose, which is providing you the insights and tools to comfortably make and manage risk related decisions. Samba helps our customers identify and recruit qualified drivers ensuring that they're only putting qualified drivers behind the wheel of vehicles in their communities. At Samba safety, we are proud to be the industry's only provider to offer nationwide MVR and CSA monitoring with telematics and training in one single platform. Samba Safety can now integrate data from your telematics and camera providers with our risk management solution, making it easier than ever to extract insights and efficiently respond to risk in your business. By centralizing and normalizing telematics data with the MVR and claims we process today, we can formulate the most holistic profile of risk for each driver and help you make informed decisions that can massively impact the safety of your fleet. Let's take a moment to focus on our example for driver Terrence White House. Contextualize alerts are delivered in real time allowing you to quickly review when a driver returns. This new alert was for phone usage and we use geolocation to map where the event occurred. We can see Terrence was using his phone while on Highway seventy six in Colorado. Intelligent training recommendations based on specific alerts and vehicle type allow managers to quickly coach drivers to ensure they have the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to get back on the road. Let's take a deeper dive into the behavior of mister White House by launching his driver profile. This is where a history of relevant events from motor vehicle records, regulatory sources, and telematics devices are stored. We're going to focus here on the driver risk index. This normalized score is based on each driver's high risk behavior per one hundred miles. Allowing for consistency when comparing risk across your fleet. The score is coupled with a detailed breakdown of contributing events and their assigned weight, making it easy to quickly identify and take action on risky behaviors. Here you can see MVR score phone use, collision and smoking. And with configurable waiting capabilities, safety managers can ensure their score is an accurate representation of how they define risk in their organization based on their company's safety policy. Samba Safety's comprehensive platform makes fleet risk management simple and powerful. By combining all of your driver and vehicle data into a single view, you can access, analyze, and address high risk activity faster than ever before. Companies that integrate existing telematics data sources with Samba Safety's risk management platform experience, sixteen percent reduction in monthly crashes, forty percent improvement in driver engagement, fifty percent reduction in manual data management. Transform your driver safety program with Samba Safety. Our solution is to agnostic, and we have integrations with a growing list of leading telematics providers. Transform your driver safety program with Samba Safety and see why over six thousand clients trust Samba Safety to keep their drivers safe. Schedule a demo today.

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