The most prominent enhancements to MSDgen 5.08 include new features to help customers author hazard communication documents that comply with Europe's Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) regulatory framework for chemical substances as well as the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) for classification and labeling of chemicals. REACH-specific enhancements include support for a new IUCLID5 Export mechanism, which allows the user to select any set of materials from within MSDgen and export the data for these materials into a IUCLID5 compatible file format. New GHS enhancements include updating the GHS classification procedures to incorporate the complete set of GHS hazard determination logic and the addition of new country-specific GHS "building block" adaptations.
MSDgen 5.08 also seamlessly integrates with 3E Company's award-winning Ariel WebInsight regulatory data reference tool for WebInsight subscribers. With this new feature, any set of materials that are present in a customer's corporate product MSDS database can now be easily uploaded into Ariel WebInsight where more detailed research on these materials can be performed. The integration between MSDgen and WebInsight is a significant milestone for 3E Company as it continues to fulfill the promise of product integration following the Company's acquisition of HSE Systems. The MSDgen and Ariel teams have worked together to ensure the optimization of 3E Company's award-winning Ariel™ chemical regulatory data, which is used by 70% of the world's top chemical manufacturers. This release strengthens 3E Company's unique role as an MSDS platform provider offering a complete end-to-end regulatory compliance solution that includes direct sourcing, development, and support of content, tools and services.MSDgen 5.08 also features the following enhancements:
- Rules Generation. A new Rules Impact Analysis option has been added that allows users to easily view the changes that have taken place with a given set of materials when Rules updates are applied.
- MSDS and Label Document Generation. A new "Composition Component" option has been added that allows users to display "Component Types" in the Ingredients section of the MSDS.
- Material Data Management. A new feature has been added to allow formulations to be quickly and easily imported into any material.
- Ingredient Disclosure. The already powerful MSDgen Disclosure Module has been further enhanced to allow advanced disclosure specifications to be set at the material level for those materials that are used as ingredients. This new option allows users to set default behavior for a substance once at the material level, and carry forward these specifications when the material is used as an ingredient in other mixtures.
- System Maintenance. The encryption and decryption methods used by MSDgen for storing confidential information have been significantly hardened by the incorporation of a new set of encryption and decryption routines.
"3E Company continues to expand and enhance our vast suite of services and solutions to help our customers comply with emerging regulations like REACH and GHS," said Clark VanScoder, Vice President, HSE Systems, 3E Company. "MSDgen 5.08 incorporates several new enhancements that make it even easier for our global customers to author hazard communication documents that are compliant in the various countries in which they do business. Customers will also benefit from MSDgen's integration with Ariel WebInsight as they will now have access the most comprehensive and accurate chemical regulatory data on the market today."
The MSDgen authoring systems can be used to develop a variety of hazard communication documents that meet international regulatory compliance and business requirements. It provides full support of hazard communication, classification, and labeling directives to generate globally-compliant MSDSs and label documents as well as business/user definable documents, such as technical data sheets, product data sheets, hazard summaries, and product stewardship summaries.
MSDgen 5.08 is available now. Pricing is based on number of users; phrase library languages; content modules, including data, rules, and regulatory templates; and implementation services including configuration, data migration, and installation.
About 3E Company
3E Company is the first company to provide a comprehensive suite of services for environmental, health and safety (EH&S) related chemical and hazardous materials information and compliance management that addresses the entire chemical lifecycle. This suite of services includes regulatory research; MSDS authoring, distribution and management; transportation; emergency response; training; regulatory reporting; and hazardous waste management. 3E has the industry leading combination of a 24-7-365 hazmat mission control call center, with an online platform for hazmat compliance information management, all built on a foundation of the world's premier hazardous substance database of global regulatory and compliance information. Its international, multi-lingual professional staff is composed of regulatory specialists, experienced product stewards, industrial hygienists, attorneys, chemists and chemical engineers, MSDS experts and EH&S systems consultants.
3E's services offer a cost effective program for global regulatory compliance management by alleviating the pain, managing risk, increasing the efficiency and enhancing staff productivity and enabling EH&S professionals to focus on more strategic functions. Today more than 7,000 customers have partnered with 3E including Costco Wholesale Corporation, America West, Eastman Chemical, Temple-Inland, Menasha and PacifiCorp. 3E was founded in 1988 and is the recipient of the 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006 Commitment to Worker Safety Awards in Online and MSDS Services from Compliance Magazine, which also recognized 3E Online-MSDS in 2005 with an Award of Excellence for its Best of the Web Awards. The privately held company is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA with additional operations in Massillon, OH, Bethesda, MD, Kingsport, TN, Montreal, Quebec and Copenhagen, Denmark. For more information on 3E Company, visit www.3ecompany.com, send e-mail to info@3ecompany.com or call 800-360-3220, 760-602-8700 or, in Europe, +45 70 22 81 70.