Slow Down to Get Around

This article is taken from http://www.environmentalistseveryday.org
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Slow Down to Get Around is a national safety campaign that reminds motorists to drive more carefully near solid waste collection vehicles. Motorists are often distracted while driving and frequently crash into collection employees or vehicles—sometimes with fatal consequences.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has endorsed the campaign and has partnered with NSWMA to develop several flyers. The flyers are intended to be used as a bill stuffer and can be used to communicate this important safety message to customers, local regulators and others. They can be customized to include a photograph of one of your trucks.

NSWMA aired Slow Down to Get Around public service announcements (PSA’s) in a dozen media markets in 2008. NSWMA developed this PSA for television and offers Slow Down to Get Around decals available for haulers and local governments to put on their trucks.