Corporate Health & Safety Manual
                                                                                 Version B.2007

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Informational Note
The information contained in the Health & Safety Manual outlines the best practices standards for FairPoint Communications, Inc. and is based upon collective experience.

Your safety program is intended to help you deal with the known and recognized hazards that exist in your business environments. FairPoint Communications has diverse operations and as such, the manual focuses on several business environments including office, inside plant and outside plant issues. These guidelines and procedures are based on various state and federal laws and the collective experience of telecommunications and loss control professionals.

This safety information is designed to be supplemented with safety training and does not constitute a complete safety training program. Remember, the key to an effective program is using the safety program material and implementing it into your normal business operations. Your safety begins with you!

Policy Changes Disclaimer
The Company reserves the right to make any changes at any time by adding to, deleting, or changing any existing policy.
The rules set out in this manual are as complete as we can reasonably make them. However,  they are not necessarily all-inclusive, because circumstances that we have not anticipated may arise. Company management may vary from the policies and provisions in this manual if, in its sole discretion, particular or special circumstances require.
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Last Modified on August 20, 2007

Detailed Table of Contents                                
1. Safety Policy Statements                                        
2. General Information                                        
3. First Aid                                                        
4. Hazard Communication                                
5. Hazard Watch                                                
6. Personal Protective Equipment                        
7. Fall Protection Plan                                        
8. Work Area Protection                                
9. OSHA Regs for Telecomm Work Ops        
10. Work Operations                                        
11. Excavating, Trenching, and Shoring                
Forms Appendix                                                
                                       
12. Confined Space Entry                                
13. Working Aloft                                                
14. Ergonomics Program                                
15. Office Safety                                        
16. Personal and Travel Safety                
17. Fleet Management Program                                
18. Emergency Preparedness and Response                        
19. Injury, Accident, and Loss Reporting        
20. Bloodborne Pathogens                                        
21. Workplace Violence        
22. Hearing Conservation                
23. Fire Protetion & Prevention