Safety Resources

SWANA Safety Tips And Tricks: Keeping You and Your Teams Safe

This book is designed to provide you with safety reminders for your team throughout the year. Inside, you’ll find concise, actionable safety tips organized by key areas of risk. Focusing on areas such as driving safety, safe equipment use, proper use of PPE, and workplace safety culture, these tips are about real-world application and reminders to help safety stick.

Pricing: $0 for members and $99 for non-members

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SWANA Safety Workshop: Making Lasting Changes to Improve Organizational Safety

Go beyond compliance and get to the root of prevention at SWANA's interactive, hands‑on workshop offering real‑world tools to integrate safety across your organization and strengthen safety leadership at every level. What you’ll take away:

• Practical approaches that move safety from policies to daily behaviors.

• Tools to diagnose root causes and prevent incidents.

• Leadership practices that embed safety into operations and culture.

• Techniques to prepare and empower teams for safer decisions in real time.

Come with your challenges; leave with a plan, momentum, and a network of peers who are pushing safety forward on March 19 in Washington, DC for a new approach to safety.

Spread the word about this safety workshop using this marketing toolkit with flyers, graphics and pre-written copy for social media and emails.

Five to Stay Alive and SWANA Safety Pledge

Print this card with Five to Stay Alive tips and the SWANA Safety Pledge to distribute to your teams and at your safety events.

Print the Five to Stay Alive and SWANA Safety Pledge Card

Guide for Developing Lithium Battery Management Practices at Materials Recovery Facilities

To lower the risk of potential fires caused by lithium batteries, this guide has been written to assist materials recovery facilities (MRFs) in developing management practices to properly manage and dispose of lithium batteries when spotted, to take precaution in case of a fire, and to manage a fire if one does break out. Guidelines to help better educate consumers are also provided.

View the Guide for Developing Lithium Battery Management Practices

Natural Gas Vehicle Safety

SWANA, along with NGVAmerica, is proud to promote natural gas vehicle (NGV) safety initiatives to increase the commitment to workplace safety throughout the solid-waste industry and continue to keep these clean and affordable vehicles safely on the road.

View the Whitepaper: "Natural Gas – A Clean, Safe and Smart Choice for the Waste and Recycling Industry"

View the U.S. DOE Compressed Natural Gas Vehicle Maintenance Facility Modification Handbook

View the Transportation Project "Recommended Practices for CNG PoweredRefuseTrucks"

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Preventing Needlesticks Tip Sheet

Learn tips you can take to reduce the risk of needlesticks. These tips are adapted from the groundbreaking Household Needles in Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Report produced by the Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) and SWANA. This joint research project for the first time quantified the number of needlesticks that occur at MRFs with the goal to improve worker safety.

Download the tip sheet in English, Spanish, and French.

Backing Best Management Practices Guide

According to industry and OSHA data, backing represents approximately 25 percent of all injuries and accidents in the solid waste collection industry. Use our guide and poster covering the industry’s best backing practices to educate employees to stay safe on the job.

View the Backing Best Management Practices Guide

View the Top 10 Backing Best Management Practices Poster