At Vigillo, when we speak about the Triangle Blues Society we’re not talking about the non-profit agency in North Carolina that promotes blues music in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area. No, the Triangle Blues Society we speak of are all those carriers who are burdened with the dreaded yellow triangle on SMS. It’s the Safety Director who has a case of the “yellow blues” because senior management and customers don’t understand why that yellow stain won’t go away! If only they knew how to wash away the stain……
Here at Vigillo we have the Knowing. The knowing of things so powerful, so important, so life-changing that lives of Safety Directors everywhere will be forever altered. Read more if you dare……….
OK! Now that I’ve got your attention let me share with you some the knowing. The key number in determining who gets the yellow alert triangle is your basic measure and the number within the basic meausure calculation that you need to focus on is total CSA points. Most people understand this concept now that CSA is over a year old.
The problem is that you have no way of knowing what your basic measure needs to be in order to get under the BASIC threshold and thus eliminating the yellow alert. Another way to look at this is to ask yourself “if my BASIC measure is “x”, then what would my percentile ranking be?” Vigillo knows the answer to this question.
Through our IQLab we’ve developed a product that can tell you how many points you need to lose in order to reduce your basic measure to a level that gets you below threshold. We can do this because we can, using our super-secret wisdom machine, calculate what the basic measure is at threshold. From there we can analyse total CSA points, points falling off over time and give you a specific target to shoot for that will get you under threshold. A simple concept really……a clear goal that can be easily communicated to internal and external stakeholders. Stain be gone!
A customized CSA Point Reduction Analysis can be ordered from our IQLab and quickly have you on your way to a cleaner, brigter future.
A wonderful idea, Drew, but the real issue is still out there. With the Unsafe Driving score, the measurement “threshold” score changes month-to-month. We’ve been chasing this number for nearly 18 months now. Knowing the other carriers in your safety event group, then tracking their numbers month-to-month along with your own (which is what I do, every month!) reveals the threshold score has dropped from around 0.95 in Nov 2010, to 0.66 now. (This is Straight Segment, Group 5). This ‘moving target’ proves, in my mind, the inherent flaw in using the percentile scoring method to rank carriers. If our measurement score improves every month (which it has), but we can’t reach the “threshold” score because it keeps dropping every month at about the same rate, we’ll never get that dreaded “yellow triangle” off our score. So I’m not sure how your IQ lab is going to get over that little hurdle. (Here’s hoping you’ve got a brilliant response to this comment ready to go!)