Slow Down to Get Around

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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.

The Slow Down to Get Around program was developed by NSWMA with Rumpke Consolidated, an NSWMA member in the Midwest, and the McNeilus Companies, a WASTEC member that manufactures garbage trucks, after two tragic accidents that resulted in the death of one Rumpke employee and severe injuries to a second. Both accidents were due to carelessness by motorists.

More Info/Other Resources

• To order a DVD with broadcast-ready versions of a 30-second radio commercial and a 30-second TV commercial, contact NSWMA at 800-424-2869 or email SDTGA@envasns.org.
• To receive Slow Down to Get Around decals for your garbage trucks (available in 6x12" and 12x24" sizes), or the Slow Down to Get Around flyers, email SDTGA@envasns.org.
• Download QuickTime Movie files of the video here: 60 second (MOV, 12.5 Mb), 30 second (MOV, 5.4 Mb).