You can use the Safety Score to encourage positive driving behaviors and to coach unsafe driving practices to help reduce the likelihood of accidents. Safety Events include harsh events (Harsh Brake, Harsh Acceleration, Harsh Turn, and Crashes) and behaviors include speeding, unsafe following distance, and AI unsafe behavior like Distracted Driving and Near Collision (see Safety Score Calculation). If desired, you can override the default safety score to manually assign weight and increase the relative importance of specific factors used to calculate safety scores and safety infractions by enabling Safety Score Configuration in the Safety settings. To modify or enable your Safety Score Configuration, from the Samsara dashboard navigate to Settings ( ) > Fleet > Safety > Safety Score.
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For more granular control of events and speed, you can weight individual events and behaviors. For label-based events, a fleet or safety administrator must manually identify an event and assign the appropriate label before Samsara will include the event as part of the safety score calculation.

During review of safety events from the Safety Inbox, in addition to automatically detected events, you can manually add event labels as indicated by the table below as Manual Only. Assign weights to the following events:
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Crash |
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Collision Risk |
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Distracted Driving |
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Speeding |
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Traffic Signs and Signals |
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Policy Violations |
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Harsh Driving |
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By default, crash, harsh events, and speeding have a weight of 1 (Low), distracted driving and collision risk have a weight of 2 (Low), and traffic signals and policy violations have a weight of 0 (not counted towards safety score).
For each event or behavior that you want to weight, you can assign a value from 0 (least important) to 10 (most important). Use the Score Preview to see how adjustments will effect your safety score. After you save the adjusted weight, the setting applies to both current and historical safety scores. Use the following tips to configure your settings:
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If you disable the event, Samsara assigns a value of 0 and removes the event type from the safety score calculation.
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If you configure a weight above 1, the assignment will give that particular event that many factors more weight relative to other events set to 1.
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To offset a negative score, you can assign positive weight to defensive driving
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