What's New at SambaSafety: January-July 2026 Recap
The first half of 2026 brought meaningful advances to help you monitor risk more precisely, train drivers more effectively, and assess compliance with greater confidence. New AI capabilities, expanded training content, and smarter reporting workflows make it easier than ever to stay ahead of risk, no matter your role. See what's new for safety leaders, fleet managers, underwriters, and risk professionals.
Risk Improvement
And More
AI Profile Summary
*Available on the Person Profile in Essentials, Professional, and Ultimate Packages
AI Profile Summary gives managers an instant, scannable overview of each person's complete risk profile, guiding coaching conversations with clear priorities for improvement and recognition.
- Assessment Summary: Creates a brief risk snapshot based on all data present on a person's profile: MVR violations, CSA incidents, telematics events, claims data, and training completion.
- Documented Events: Consolidates activity from within a selected time period, organized and categorized for quick review.
- Observations and Trends: Detects behavioral patterns that help managers proactively address risks before they become incidents.
- Positive Observations: Highlights positive behaviors the driver is doing right, encouraging balanced feedback and recognition.
License Monitoring
Reports
- Vermont license status monitoring now detects a broader set of license status changes, including surrenders, expirations and renewals, upgrades and downgrades, and restrictions and endorsement changes. More complete coverage means greater confidence that monitoring will trigger an MVR when a relevant change occurs.
- Oklahoma license monitoring now supports monthly MVR lookback intervals, rather than lookback intervals of 1, 6, and 12 months. The expanded monthly option closes the activity gap between pre-hire evaluation and monitoring enrollment, so you're not paying for MVRs on activity you already knew about.
The CSA Daily Event report now includes several new features that make it easier to filter, export, analyze, and share inspection and crash data outside of the SambaSafety platform:
- Inspections Download: Export a .csv file of inspection and violation details based on your applied filters for use in external reporting or analysis.
- Crashes Download: Export a .csv file of crash details based on your applied filters.
- Custom Date Range: Apply a custom date range beyond the default 30-day window to support longer reporting periods and custom compliance needs.
Risk Improvement
New and Enhanced Driver Training Courses
*Available with University and Ultimate packages
SambaSafety continuously expands and refines our course catalog to deliver the most relevant and engaging training for your drivers.
Most content is available in flexible formats, including full-length lessons for comprehensive topic coverage, Micro-Learning modules for targeted incident-based intervention, and SafetyShorts for sub-60-second reinforcement that keeps drivers engaged without feeling repetitive.
Injury Prevention Catalog Expansion
We significantly expanded our injury prevention catalog with new content designed to reduce non-collision workplace injuries. New courses cover essential body mechanics and movement fundamentals, helping drivers and workers avoid strains and injuries on and around the vehicle. Each topic is available as a Micro-Learning and SafetyShort lesson for flexible, targeted assignment.
- Pulling vs. Pushing a Load
- Carrying a Load
- Transferring and Pivoting
- Hip Hinge
- Lifting Basics
- Safe Lifting
- Squatting
- Rotator Cuff Injuries
Updated OSHA Courses
Slips, Trips, and Falls has been refreshed and is now available across all three formats: full-length lesson, Micro-Learning, and SafetyShorts.
Enhanced Heavy-Duty Courses
Several Heavy-Duty courses have been updated with improved content and more modern visualizations, plus companion Micro-Learning and SafetyShort versions now available. Updated topics include:
- CSA Overview (Safety Measurement System, roadside inspections, and compliance expectations)
- Distractions (visual, manual, and cognitive distractions and strategies for staying focused)
- Driver Wellness (stress, sleep apnea, and healthy lifestyle)
- Fatigue Management (causes and signs of fatigue, sleep apnea, and federal regulations)
- Lift Gate Safety (operation, types, and injury prevention)
- Lockout/Tagout Procedures
- Seat Belts (available in Spanish)
Online Driver Training: Workflow Enhancements
*Available with University and Ultimate packages
Learning Paths
Simplify training administration and keep drivers consistently engaged with Learning Paths, a new way to organize courses into structured sequences for onboarding, remediation, and ongoing development.
Instead of building and assigning individual courses one by one, Learning Paths lets you group related content into reusable programs that can be deployed in seconds, reducing administrative work and ensuring drivers receive the right training at the right time.
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SambaSafety Learning Paths: Access pre-built, expertly curated paths covering the safety topics most relevant to fleets. Ready to assign immediately with no setup required, SambaSafety Learning Paths deliver consistent, scalable training across your entire driver population.
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Custom-Created Learning Path: Build custom paths tailored to your fleet's specific risk profile, policies, and training priorities. Define course groupings for any use case, from new hire onboarding to incident-based remediation to annual compliance programs.
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Introducing: SambaSafety Labs
SambaSafety Labs is a dedicated space inside the platform to try new features and provide early-stage feedback. Enter the Labs environment to experiment with our latest innovations and help shape what's next.
Try our new conversational AI assistant to get answers about your fleet risk in seconds. Bypass the manual triage of alerts and reports to surface what matters right now.
- Ask Anything: Type a question or pick a suggested prompt to surface critical information about your fleet risk- Know Where to Focus: Get clear direction on which drivers or groups need attention
- Prioritize Alerts: Identify your highest-priority alerts based on event severity and recency, scoring policy, and driver risk history
- Drill Down: Use follow-up prompts to dig into patterns and inform your next action
Risk Assessment
*Available with a Risk Assessment Package
CDLIS Report
Confirm CDL compliance and see a driver's full commercial licensing history in one place. CDLIS (the Commercial Driver's License Information System) checks whether a driver holds commercial licenses in more than one state, supporting the federal one-license requirement, and surfaces their prior CDL history. You can now order CDLIS reports directly on the platform, with batch ordering for multiple drivers and single, on-demand lookups, plus built-in reporting.
Motor Vehicle Records
New ways to order MVRs, score them, and keep recent history in view:
- Bulk Downloads: Retrieve multiple MVRs in a single action and manage every request from a dedicated Bulk Actions page, with status tracking and searchable history.
- At-Fault Accident Insight: MVR reports now flag whether a driver was found responsible for an accident, and the scoring model weights accidents by responsibility, so at-fault events carry appropriate weight for greater confidence in each assessment.
- Smart Sync: When a driver is enrolled in license monitoring, any MVR ordered for them through Risk Assessment in the past year will automatically appear on their profile, closing the visibility gap between pre-hire screening and enrollment. Surfaced MVRs appear on your invoice at $0.00.
Risk Assessment API
- HTML Report Format: Activity History and CDLIS reports are now available in HTML through the API, so you can render results in your application, generate PDFs, or archive formatted records.
- Stronger Webhook Security: Webhook payloads now include HMAC signature verification, so your systems can confirm each event came from SambaSafety before processing. New endpoints also make it easier to manage event subscriptions.
*Please Note: Some of the features mentioned above might not be available to all users. Access can vary based on subscription packages, capabilities, and user roles. If you have questions, reach out to your company administrator.
Coming Soon: A Sneak Peek at What's Next
Get ready for more exciting new features throughout 2026, starting with:
A reimagined CSA monitoring experience:
- Improved accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of CSA data- New CSA APIs built to current standards on the SambaSafety Platform
- Improved reporting capabilities to help you pinpoint your CSA challenges to take strategic action
Learning and Resources
Discover how distracted driving, nuclear verdicts, and tightening FMCSA enforcement are reshaping fleet safety and commercial auto, with data-driven insights across insurance, hiring, compliance, and geographic trends.
SambaSafety Verified Program
Fleet Risk Management Academy
A no-cost accreditation program that recognizes your fleet's commitment to driver safety, with credentials you can share with insurers at quote and renewal.
Expert-built certification training for fleet safety professionals. Four levels, from foundational skills to advanced risk strategy. Start free, no account required.
Looking for a refresher on SambaSafety's update from last year? See our second-half 2025 recap.
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