EXHIBIT 10.41

AMENDMENT NO. 2

TO

MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT

OF

MARK A. KIRK



|THIS AMENDMENT NO. 2 is made this 25 day of September, 1999, by and between SCOTT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,
a Delaware corporation (hereinafter referred to as the "Company") and Mark A. Kirk, an executive officer of the Company (hereinafter referred to as the "Executive"):
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|W I T N E S S E T H:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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|WHEREAS, on August 25, 1998
the Company and the Executive entered into a Management Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement"); and                                                                                                                            
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|WHEREAS, the Company and the
Executive desire to make certain amendments to the Agreement;                                                                                                                                                                                 
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|NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to
Section 6.3 of the Agreement, the Company and the Executive hereby amend the Agreement effective as of October 1, 1999, as follows:                                                                                                            
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|(1)Subsection d. of Section 4.7 of the Agreement is hereby amended by the deletion of said Subsection and the substitution in lieu thereof
of a new Subsection d. to read as follows:                                                                                      
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|"d.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        



|                                                                                                                                                                |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | to any provision of the stock option providing for early termination of the option or one (1) year after his date of termination of employment."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
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|(2)Section 4.9 of the
Agreement is hereby amended by the deletion of said Section and the substitution in lieu thereof of a new Section 4.9 to read as follows:
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|                                                                                                                                                                | "4.9      Vesting of Stock Options. In the event of a Change in Control the Committee under the Option
Plan will cause certain of the stock options granted to the Executive pursuant to the Option Plan to become immediately exercisable as follows:
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|                                                                                                                                                                | a.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | Service Based Options. Options which would otherwise become exercisable solely upon the passage of time regardless of the price of a Share of Common Stock of the Company
shall become exercisable in full upon the Change in Control.                                                                                                                                                                                                      
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|                                                                                                                                                                | b .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | Performance Based Options. Options which would otherwise become exercisable upon the attainment of a specified price of a Share of Common Stock of the Company shall become
exercisable to the extent that the sales price in the Change in Control transaction satisfies the price targets set forth in the Option Agreement, without regard to the 20 consecutive day price maintenance requirement of the Option
Agreement.              
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|                                                                                                                                                                |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | In addition, to the extent that the sales price in the Change in Control transaction is
above the Option Price per share of Common Stock of the Company, is below the value per share at which all of the options would be exercisable and is not equal to a value per share at which a specific part of the option becomes exercisable (each
such values are hereinafter referred to as 'price targets'), a part of the option shall become



| |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | exercisable equal to the number of additional Shares which would have become exercisable had the sales price been at the next highest price target multiplied by a fraction the
numerator of which shall equal the amount by which the sales price in the Change in Control transaction exceeds the next lower price target and the denominator of which shall equal the amount by which the next highest price target exceeds the next
lower price target.
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| |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | In addition to the above provisions with respect to the exercisability of the stock option
shares in the event of a Change in Control, the Stock Option Committee may in its sole discretion, waive any or all remaining higher stock option price targets and determine to make any or all of such remaining shares exercisable.                                                                                                                          
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| | Such stock options as become exercisable in accordance with the preceding provisions shall remain so exercisable until the end of the original term of the option without regard to
any provision of the stock option providing for early termination of the option. The 'price targets' referred to in the preceding paragraph will be adjusted for any stock split, stock dividend, combination or exchange of shares, exchange for other
securities, reclassification, reorganization, redesignation, merger, consolidation, recapitalization, spin-off, split-off, split-up or other such change in accordance with the provisions of Section 8 of the Stock Option Agreement between the
Executive and the Company.
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| | In the event the proceeds from a sale or disposition of any of the Affiliates which the Company owns on the
date of this Agreement are used to provide a dividend to the stockholders of the Company, then immediately upon the effective date of such sale or disposition the Company will cause the stock options, other than the Special Stock