Cherry Hill Accident Law Blog

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the federal agency tasked with regulating the trucking industry, is in the midst of creating a program to help improve the safety of America's roads. Called "Compliance, Safety, Accountability", the program would take into account the number of trucking accidents and other safety issues drivers and trucking companies are involved in. The Safety Management System of the CSA will use this information to help reduce the number of trucking accidents by identifying the trucking companies that are at most risk of being involved in future accidents.

Once the trucking companies at greatest risk of being involved in accidents are identified by the SMS, the FMCSA is able to preemptively intervene in an attempt to try to prevent accidents.

New Jersey residents are used to dealing with traffic. Many of them are also used to seeing truck accidents along the sides of the highways. In an attempt to make highways safer for drivers, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration created a program called Compliance Safety Accountability 2010.

The CSA program focuses specifically on vehicle maintenance. The program uses a new tool called the Safety Measurement System. The FMCSA hopes that by using this system and other new tools, the trucking industry will be able to tell its carriers about safety problems before truck accidents occur.

In early December, a construction worker suffered fatal injuries in a tragic on-the-job accident. The accident demonstrates the hazards that make construction work one of the most dangerous industries in the U.S.

Construction sites are ripe for accidents that leave workers, and even bystanders, severely injured or killed. To prevent these types of tragedies, the U.S. Occupations Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has instituted safety regulations to protect people from preventable accidents.

Contractors can face severe financial repercussions if safety violations occur on the jobsites they oversee. If OSHA discovers the violation, the contractor may face stiff fines. In addition, not following safety rules can increase contractors' insurance costs. Finally, if a judge determines the contractor was negligent in any way and that negligence led to the injury or death of another person, the company can be held liable for financial damages.