MSDgen 6.0 features several GHS-specific enhancements, which together enable users to instantly and automatically classify their products using the proven MSDgen GHS classification algorithms. These enhancements include:
- Enhanced GHS Auto Classify and Calc procedures. Average calculation time has been reduced by 50%, increasing user productivity.
- The addition of a new Generic Search Object entitled "GHS Acute Toxicity Estimates." This new search object in the Regulatory group shows the table used by MSDgen to determine the GHS Acute Toxicity Point Estimate in the GHS Classification Algorithms.
- Enhanced identification of carcinogenicity. The identification of carcinogenicity has been enhanced to include the presence of substances on the ACGIH, NTP, California Proposition 65 and EU carcinogen Ariel Regulatory Lists.
- Improved REACHsync error handling. If the Legal Entity's UUID number is missing, the user will be prompted at the time of the export.
- New location for Legal Entity's UUID number. The number is now stored within the name/address module instead of at the substance level. The Legal Entity may be an entry in either the Manufacturer or Addresses module within MSDgen.
- New substance definitions. Users now have the ability to identify a substance as Mono-constituent, Multi-constituent, or UVCB (Substances of Unknown or Variable Composition, Complex reaction products or Biological Materials).
- New REACH Compliance Analysis Search Object. New search assists with the identification of substances requiring registration/pre-registration.
- Automated determination of envisaged registration date. Determination has been automated based on tonnage band and CMR assessment.
"Global regulatory compliance is a complex and burdensome challenge for our customers. Our hope is that MSDgen 6.0 will ease this burden by offering our customers a simple, yet robust, tool for authoring globally compliant hazard communication documentation," said Clark VanScoder, Vice President, HSE Systems, 3E Company. "With its innovative new REACH and GHS enhancements, our customers can rely on MSDgen 6.0 to produce documents that support the most complex and stringent regulatory initiatives to be introduced in quite some time. MSDgen 6.0 also offers customers improved performance using the latest application and development technologies. Numerous enhancements have also been made to offer customers expanded support should they require more detailed information on any of the processes that take place within the system."
The MSDgen authoring system 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 6.0 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.