How will the proposed Safety Fitness Determination (SFD) handle reportable crashes?
In the short term, our proposed rule on SFD will propose that a carrier’s formal safety rating (i.e. the replacement for the traditional Unsatisfactory, Conditional, or Satisfactory rating process) would only be adversely affected by crashes where the carrier is at least partly at fault. These are known as preventable accidents. A Safety Investigator (SI) would determine which crashes are preventable.
