{"id":7932,"date":"2022-12-01T14:01:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T22:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/blog\/blog-making-waste-and-recycling-operations-safer-with-tech\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T19:23:08","slug":"blog-making-waste-and-recycling-operations-safer-with-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/blog\/blog-making-waste-and-recycling-operations-safer-with-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Waste and Recycling Operations Safer With Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the newest <a href=\"https:\/\/swana.org\/news\/swana-news-archive\/article\/2022\/03\/18\/swana-reports-dramatic-decrease-in-worker-fatalities-in-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report from SWANA<\/a>, the number of fatalities in solid waste collection has significantly decreased: In 2021, deaths on the job were nearly half of what they were in 2020. Yet waste collection still ranks among the top 10 most deadly professions in the United States, and the story is much the same in Canada and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to risk, municipalities and small- and medium-sized haulers experience the greatest liability because disproportionate numbers of waste collection accidents happen to their workers.<\/p>\n<p>While that\u2019s the bad news, the good news is that advances in technology are already helping municipalities and haulers double down on safety and improve outcomes while capturing efficiencies at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>In our latest publication, \u201cThe Solid Waste Fleet Manager\u2019s Guide To Creating a Safer Workplace,\u201d we\u2019re sharing important information about how to address top safety issues with technology to protect workers and communities.<\/p>\n<p>The guide includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Top 5 accident types and insights into what contributes to these kinds of accidents<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4 keys to safer driving to share with your team<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How technology addresses root causes<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How tech fits into your organization\u2019s hierarchy of controls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>The Solid Waste Fleet Manager\u2019s Guide To Creating a Safer Workplace<\/h4>\n<p>When it comes to collection accidents, what you can\u2019t see can hurt you. That\u2019s one reason why incidents involving backing are so prevalent. Other common accidents happen when drivers speed or lack training.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the newest report from SWANA, the number of fatalities in solid waste collection has significantly decreased: In 2021, deaths on the job were nearly half of what they were in 2020. Yet waste collection still ranks among the top 10 most deadly professions in the United States, and the story is much the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resourcetype-blog","aud-government","aud-hauler","loc-north-america","loc-united-kingdom","sol-collection-operations","sol-customer-operations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}