What are the recordkeeping requirements of the new rule?
All safety performance history data that a prospective employer receives must be maintained until three years after the driver leaves the company. The information could be contained in a Driver Investigation History file, a Driver Qualification file, a Drug & Alcohol Testing file, a personnel file, or elsewhere, but the information must be maintained in a secure location with controlled access. The information must only be used for the hiring decision. It can be shared with insurers, except any drug/alcohol testing data. Employers who receive requests for safety performance history information (i.e., previous employers ) must keep records of those requests and their responses for one year.
