William M. Lambert, 48, was named president and chief operating officer, a newly created position, as part of a first step in the succession plan.

Labelmaster offers more than 25,000 hazardous materials compliance products, including labels, forms, placards, placarding systems, transportation, packaging, spill control, shipping supplies, facility management, material handling, workplace safety, signs, books, regulatory publications and software.

The Home Depot Inc.’s chief executive said no decision had been reached as to what to do with its wholesale distribution arm.

How do we change the way we’ve been trying to change? Here’s a theory: Besides top-down vision and the will to change, we also need to have a “corporate culture” that “enables” change to happen.

A behind-the-scenes battle is raging worldwide over reforms in China’s labor law. The fight indicates the political barriers blocking development of the vast potential market for personal protective gear and other safety products in China.

Several years ago one of our upper leadership persons came to me stating he wished he had been with us from the start. On board all but a few of those years, he said he wished he would have experienced ”those fun, exciting, beginning years of building the business foundation..."

Steve Little, former president of ERB Industries, was probably the highest-rated speaker at the recent Safety Week 2006, held in late June at the Chateau Elan Winery & Resort outside Atlanta.

The spring session of the Qualified Safety Sales Professional (QSSP) course concluded on April 28, 2006 in Louisville, Ky. This was the 22nd session of a week-long program that the Safety Equipment Distributors Association calls the gold standard in safety sales training.

The single-family housing market is gliding toward a soft landing in 2006, as rising interest rates, affordability issues and a reduced role for investors/speculators contribute to a softening in demand, according to economists at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Construction Forecast Conference held in April, and reported in the magazine Shelter.

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