This week-long training and awareness effort is focused around reducing accidents, fatalities and injuries related to truck backing incidents which represents a common challenge for the industry. Fatalities caused by backing vehicles continue to be a leading cause of preventable deaths for waste & recycling workers, accounting for nearly 30% of industry worker fatalities in 2015. NHTSA’s extensive research study of 10,092 fatalities of truck crashes involving cars. The study showed that large trucks were at-fault for 87 of 89 backing crash fatalities (98%) involving cars.
Please join NWRA and our partners the week of January 23 – 27, 2017 in creating a Safer, Smarter, Stronger waste & recycling industry. Members of the waste and recycling industry are asked to join in NWRA’s commitment toward significantly improving safety for the waste and recycling industry by taking part in this effort.
Participation in the stand down means that (name of company) has joined with waste and recycling companies across the country to commit to:
- Conducting 聽a risk assessment at job sites and review safety policies and procedures for backing.
- Review company policies, procedures, consider enhancements, and then training employees on any changes.
- Posting Stand Down materials to the company website, in employee meeting rooms and on social media sites.
- We will also have three interactive events during this week:
- Twitter Chat: Tuesday, January 24 at 1 .M EST
- Facebook Live event: Wednesday, January 25 at 3 PM EST
- National Call-In Thursday, January 26 at 12:00 PM EST
- Using a series of five editions of Safety Monday to share with employees during the event
Register here to pledge to take part in the week-long Stand Down for safety. Participants will receive a toolkit of resources for the Stand Down upon registration.
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