George was an environmental safety manager, 38, with a bald pate and a stubble beard.

"We've tried to work with him to make the environment safe," said Lee Hitchcock, the city's building and safety manager.

On a night shift in January 2004, he was run over by a truck - driven by the warehouse's health and safety manager.

As an example, he asked the commission to consider requiring each plant to have a "high-level on-site nuclear safety manager, with no other duties."

Boyko announced that the mine's director and safety manager would be suspended while the accident was investigated.

He then volunteered that the company no longer had a safety manager.

The 23-page document was initially sent to safety managers by e-mail and came to be distributed more broadly.

There was no damage, but the incident alarmed the department's safety managers in Washington.

Throughout there has been a high profile given to safety procedures, under the control of safety manager.

The company subsequently employed a full-time health and safety manager.