The academic quality of the university exceeds its reputation around the world.

We believe the first-line supervisors are critical to the safety process. They're in the middle of the fray. They're on the floor.

While others may cloud their judgment by emotional zeal to cut taxes, it is my hope that we focus on our primary and most important responsibility and do the right thing ? to provide the very best education for our students, and thus, ensure a prosperous future for our community.

Being recognized as one of America's Safest Companies for something Freudenberg-NOK views as critical to our business success and culture keeping our employees safe and providing the best work environment possible is a great honor for our company.

These Kids Mean Busines$.

We keep supervisors out of the behavior-based safety process so that when an employee sees a supervisor approaching him and asking about unsafe behavior, there's a very different flavor than that of a peer doing it as part of a behavior-based safety program, ... While the employee's approach as part of a behavior-based safety program might be 'I saw you do this,' the supervisor.

That sends the message that some things are more important than safety. That's not true.

It's really a bold initiative. However, budget constraints could stop us once again. And that's my fear.