Monday, August 24, 2009 — 3E Company®, the leading provider of environmental health and safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, today announced MSDgen 6.02, an enhanced version of its leading Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) authoring system. The new system boasts multiple enhancements to help customers more easily produce accurate MSDSs, labels, and other hazard communication documents that comply with the latest global regulatory obligations, including the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) for classification and labeling of chemicals and Europe's Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) regulatory framework.

The challenges facing manufacturers and distributors today are unprecedented. Companies around the globe are reducing costs while increasingly facing challenges resulting from globalization in the marketplace and changing international regulatory initiatives. In response to these challenges, 3E Company has developed and integrated multiple new features into MSDgen 6.02 that simplify support for the myriad of environmental regulations currently impacting business operations around the globe.

MSDgen 6.02 boasts several GHS-specific enhancements, including a new system/material level setting to enable compliance with the EU’s Regulation on the classification, labelling and packaging (CLP), while requiring only one set of EU document templates. The Korea KOSHA (Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency) GHS Classification List has also been added to the systems and the GHS Classification Hierarchies module has been expanded to include the Korean and EU Competent Authorities.

New REACH enhancements include an updated IUCLID to MSDgen Import interface that offers users the ability to create substances, mixtures, legal entities, and reference substances within MSDgen. MSDgen 6.02 also has the capability to associate REACH Product Use at the Alternate Trade Name level. This allows different exposure scenarios to be shown for different commercial name renditions of a particular generic product. In addition, the REACH Compliance Analysis Search Object has been updated to include expanded logic when determining substances that qualify for registration under the REACH regulation.

Other notable enhancements include:

• Multiple Rules generation enhancements, including the addition of a vast set of GHS updates.
• The addition of an easy-to-use Multiple Physical Chemical Properties window that references numerous additional standard properties, and allows users to add their own custom properties.
• Several new language support features, such as the addition of a new “Certified” checkbox so that users can ensure that the glossary statement translation has either been through a translation re-review process or know that the translation was taken directly from a regulation.
• The addition of a complete set of PDF Security features for MSDgen archiving.
• System maintenance enhancements, including the ability of all areas of the system to fully support native language Graphical User Interface (GUI) functionality.

""Effective product stewardship practices throughout the product lifecycle demand compliant and up-to-date regulatory documents—especially MSDSs—to both fulfill global requirements and serve as a critical foundation for compliance management. In today's environment, merely churning out an MSDS is not enough - companies need to ensure that they are consistently producing high-quality, accurate and current hazard communication documents,"" said Clark VanScoder, Vice President, HSE Systems, 3E Company. ""MSDgen 6.02’s innovative GHS and REACH enhancements work together with the system’s expanded rules and language support functionalities to help our customers more easily author accurate documents and satisfy their regulatory obligations.""

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 6.02 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.