This booklet for management, heads of safety and health programs, supervisors, employees, and representatives of labor organizations highlights the most important features of a comprehensive program that effectively protects Federal employees from safety and health hazards. The content is in two sections. The first concentrates on the administration of safety and health programs in all Federal agencies and includes standards, recordkeeping and reporting, committees, inspections, eliminating hazards, evaluation and annual reports, and councils. The focus of the second section is on the organizational structure needed to make a program work and discusses agency head, designated safety and health official, and program staff. (EM)