Tuesday, October 6, 2009 — 3E Company®, the leading provider of environmental health and safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, today introduced the 3E Online Supplier Portal, a valuable new tool for retailers aiming to heighten their level of environmental compliance, better understand regulatory implications and increase customer satisfaction. The Portal facilitates compliance by making critical hazard communication information available to all necessary stakeholders, including purchasing, logistics, employees and customers, in a timely manner.

The 3E Online Supplier Portal facilitates the extraction of data from existing Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) and helps retailers better understand the EH&S and regulatory implications associated with the chemical makeup of the products sold in their stores. Having access to this information early in the purchasing process helps retailers fulfill regulatory requirements and offer greener, safer products to their customers.

The 3E Online Supplier Portal facilitates an optimal data exchange process for retailers and suppliers alike. In addition to streamlining data collection for the retailer, the Portal provides flexible options for data management and extrapolation, enabling retailers to incorporate the data into existing purchasing processes for a smooth transition of data from one party to another. Retailer buyer staff and suppliers can simply load MSDSs and data into the centralized, secure, easy-to-use Web based Portal, allowing retailers to extract the information they need, while protecting the supplier from exposing sensitive information.

“Retailers are increasingly challenged with meeting EH&S regulatory compliance obligations and intense consumer demand for safer, more socially responsible products,” said Tamie Webber, Director of Product Management, 3E Company. “The 3E Online Supplier Portal addresses these challenges by offering retailers access to hazard communication and chemical data early in the procurement process. Retailers can then leverage this data to fulfill regulatory requirements and offer more environmentally attractive products.”

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.