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Our customers employ the advantages of 3E's powerful environmental, health and safety information management services with similar results: their EH&S staff can focus on the more strategic responsibilities associated with maintaining a safe working environment while saving costs and relieving the pain of the burdensome aspects of compliance.
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3E Company Gives Cabot Microelectronics Corporation the Power to Comply with Global Regulations
With more than 700 employees, and products distributed around globe, CMC faces a variety of environmental, health and safety (EH&S) challenges, ranging from material safety data sheet (MSDS) management to complying with the myriad of regulations affecting its business. The Company distributes products and maintains offices in approximately 15 countries around the globe, including Europe, China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and the United States, and is tasked with maintaining compliance in each of the regions. 3E Online-MSDS and Ariel WebInsight alleviate much of this burden.
3E Services Featured: Ariel WebInsight, 3E Online-MSDS
With a team of four responsible for regulatory affairs, Bostik is well-positioned to implement its global EH&S compliance program. However, even with an experienced team dedicated to regulatory affairs and EH&S compliance, the EH&S group was having trouble staying abreast of the complex and ever-changing regulatory requirements and what impact these new and revised regulations had on the content of the company's material safety data sheets (MSDSs). They found the solution in MSDgen
3E Services Featured: MSDgen
Momentive Performance Materials is Fired Up on
3E's Rock Solid Regulatory Data
Momentive Performance Materials is a world leader in providing material solutions through silicon-based products and technology platforms, and fused quartz and ceramics.
The company uses SAP EH&S to manage its hazardous materials and to keep it's EH&S team and their activities connected and integrated. There was, however, one missing piece: content. The team was searching for a way to feed comprehensive, continuously updated global regulatory information directly into and through SAP EH&S.
3E Services Featured: Ariel Content & SAP EH&S Solutions
Novelis Rolls Out New MSDS Program for Increased Efficiency and Cost Savings
In January 2005, Novelis spun off from Alcan Inc. Prior to the spin off, its internal environmental, health and safety (EH&S) staff was generating material safety data sheets (MSDS). As management of the newly formed Novelis began to examine EH&S operations, they quickly realized that limited resources prohibited the creation of a team of technical experts. The management team was also wary of the financial implications of purchasing and maintaining an in-house technology solution to properly author and manage their product MSDSs.
They turned to 3E's Ariel MSDS authoring service, which helps Novelis fulfill their regulatory obligations and provide the necessary information to both their employees and customers, in accordance with global regulatory requirements.
Using 3E has greatly simplified MSDS authoring and management and allowed Novelis to focus on more strategic functions.
3E Services Featured: Ariel MSDS Authoring, Ariel MSDS Distribution
3E's Ariel WebInsight Helps Akzo Nobel's Flexsys
Stretch EH&S Efficiency to the Max
Flexsys America previously used Suspect Chemicals Sourcebook, a print guide to industrial chemicals covered under major federal regulatory and advisory programs, but found that it did not address global regulations. Access to the highest-quality, most comprehensive global regulatory data is critical when managing compliance for multiple products and facilities.
"Our biggest challenge was finding a solution that addressed global regulations —- not just North American chemical regulations and lists," said Sharen Breyer, ES&H Specialist / Product Safety Manager with Flexsys. "With customers and locations all over the world, a regulatory management solution with a global reach was absolutely essential."
Flexsys began using Ariel™ WebInsight when Akzo Nobel, its parent company, introduced them to the solution. When Breyer first discovered Ariel WebInsight, she was pleased to learn that the highest-quality, global EH&S compliance information was only one click away.
3E Services Featured: Ariel WebInsight
Southwest Airlines' Compliance Management Soars with 3E
Southwest Airlines aims to use its 436 (and growing) colorful planes to safely move over 70 million Customers and 288 million pounds of cargo annually. That cargo and Customer baggage can contain all types of materials in them including clothing, paperwork, birthday presents, food stuffs and many other commercial products. Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) are not allowed on Southwest Airlines (with limited exceptions) and even when offered on a commercial carrier that does transport hazardous materials, the HAZMAT must be properly classified, packaged, marked, labeled, documented and declared as HAZMAT. In an industry where time is of the essence, the airline found its Safety Specialists needing to answer frontline Employee questions quickly and accurately 24-7. The airline considered adding staff but then created an EH&S route that included the services of 3E. It's been smooth flying ever since.
3E Services Featured: 3E MSDS On Demand, 3E Spill Emergency Response, 3E Poison & Exposure, 3E Transportation Hotline
Eastman Outsources MSDS Authoring
Eastman was generating several thousand Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) annually. Faced with additional regulatory requirements, Eastman was finding it difficult to keep up with the mounting demands on their staff. Since hiring additional personnel was not the preferred option, Eastman's EH&S department needed to find alternate ways to increase productivity in their Product Safety operations.
3E Services Featured: Ariel MSDS Authoring
Viejas Bets on 3E and Wins Big
Viejas Casino has experienced rapid growth and expansion since its opening in 1991. The list of products requiring an MSDS grew from a handful to nearly 2,000 in a few short years. They needed to streamline the way they met OSHA HazCom requirements and sought assistance from 3E.
3E Services Featured: 3E Online-MSDS, 3E Spill, 3E Poison & Exposure
DTE Utilizes 3E Compliance Management Services
DTE Energy is a leading energy and energy technology provider. DTE did the best it could to stay in compliance and make information readily available to employees with its own system. Coordinating thousands of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) cost the utility company time and money in the form of manpower to enter and update its database and IT costs associated with maintaining an in-house system. To increase its level of compliance, and to provide employees with the information needed in the event of an industrial incident, DTE concluded that a more systematic process for managing MSDS information had to be put in place. DTE turned to 3E Company for EH&S outsourcing relief.
3E Services Featured: 3E Online-MSDS, 3E MSDS On Demand, 3E Poison & Exposure, 3E Spill
Costco Bulks Up Compliance Program
with 3E
One of the nation's largest retailers, Costco relies on 3E for compliance management assistance. The company's internal EH&S staff found itself strapped for resources related to MSDS Management, Transportation Classification and Regulatory Reporting. They researched a number of vendors but found that no one provided the breadth of services they needed, except 3E Company.
3E Services Featured: 3E OnlineŽ-MSDS, 3E MSDS On DemandŽ, 3E Spill, 3E Poison & Exposure, 3E Transportation Classification, Compliance Reporting
Temple-Inland is required to manage more than 11,100 MSDSs. Before outsourcing MSDS management to 3E, each of the facilities assigned staff to coordinate and maintain a hard copy of the documents. "With so many people in so many facilities overseeing MSDS compliance, communication was an issue especially communication surrounding our chemical approval process," said Weber.
3E Services Featured: 3E Online-MSDS with modules: Inventory Management, Chemical Classification, Onsite Inventory Assessment, Labeling, Chemical Approval, SARA Candidate Lists; 3E MSDS On Demand; 3E Poison & Exposure; 3E Spill
Exelon Electrifies Cost Savings Using 3E
With several million customers and more than $15 billion in annual revenues, Exelon Corporation is a leading electric utility. Exelon operates in a highly regulated industry and must conform to demanding EH&S requirements set forth by federal, state and local agencies. Exelon has approximately 5,000 MSDSs that employees must have access to regularly. Prior to partnering with 3E, their internal process was cumbersome, time-intensive and costly.
3E Services Featured: 3E OnlineŽ-MSDS with Classification Module, SARA Candidate Lists Module, Labeling Module, 3E MSDS On DemandŽ, 3E Spill, 3E Poison & Exposure, 3E Onsite Inventory Assessment
America West Airlines On Board with
3E Compliance Management Services
In a time when most airlines are struggling with the sluggish economy and decreased passenger demand, America West has seen steady growth. With operational hubs in Phoenix and Las Vegas, the airline has become the second largest low-fare carrier in the U.S. To keep operational costs at bay and maximize its EH&S resources, the airline turned to 3E for compliance management assistance.
3E Services Featured: 3E MSDS On Demand, 3E Poison & Exposure, 3E Spill, 3E Transportation Hotline, Custom Emergency Response Network
Tenet Health's Western Medical Center
Calls for 3E's MSDS Compliance Program— Stat!
As a member of the Tenet Health System, a national provider of health care services, Western Medical Center in Santa Ana, California, is recognized for providing an "environment of care" that is innovative to patients. The hospital was managing compliance with federal and state regulations to maintain and provide employees access to Material Safety Datasheets (MSDS) – an issue that took top priority during a Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) inspection of WMC's facilities. It looked to 3E for help.
3E Services Featured: 3E Online-MSDS, 3E MSDS On Demand, 3E Spill, 3E Poison & Exposure
Cleco Generates Significant Savings with 3E HazMat Compliance Services
Cleco, an energy services company based in central Louisiana providing electric utility services to more than 261,000 residential and commercial customers across Louisiana, needed help managing its hazmat compliance program consistently across multiple facilities. It turned to 3E for assistance with the paperwork burden associated with maintaining MSDSs so that the company could dedicate more of its health and safety focus on "zero injuries" among employees.
3E Services Featured: 3E Online, 3E MSDS On Demand, 3E Spill, 3E Poison & Exposure
3E Company Packs in Productivity and Efficiency for Menasha Corporation
Menasha Corporation credits 3E Company with helping them to continuously improve on their advanced and progressive approach to environmental health and safety management.
3E Services Featured: 3E Online, 3E MSDS On Demand, 3E Spill, 3E Poison & Exposure
3E Company Powers Up Cost Savings for Pacificorp
PacifiCorp, a low-cost electricity producer with more than 1.5 million customers in the western region of the United States, needed help managing approximately 16,000 MSDSs for field sites stretching across six states, with more than 200 facilities and 7,500 employees. Find out how 3E Company's MSDS On Demand® and 3E Online®-MSDS programs save PacifiCorp during surprise OSHA inspections.
3E Services Featured: 3E MSDS On Demand, 3E Online-MSDS, 3E Spill, 3E Poison & Exposure