September 6, 2007 -- Welcome to the September issue of 3E HazMat Matters! We hope
you had a nice, relaxing Summer and are looking forward to prosperous Fall. Please forward this newsletter to any colleagues who might find it useful or have them request a subscription by clicking here. For information on how to opt-out, see the instructions at the end of this email.
In this Issue:
3E News
3E in the News
Tips N Tricks
Product News
Ask the 3Experts
Meet the 3Experts
Events
Industry Articles - News You Can Use
3E News ...........................................................................................................................
It's been a busy month here at 3E Company! Toward the end of last month, we announced the 
acquisition of MSDS Solutions, one of the industry's premiere providers of MSDS and EH&S management products and services. We believe this acquisition will further strengthen 3E Company's leadership role in the MSDS management market, while providing additional opportunities for market expansion and globalization. For more information on the acquisition, please click here.
We introduced several new solutions in August, including a major expansion of our award-winning 3E Online®-MSDS management solution with the introduction of 3E Online European 
MSDS/SDS Management, a global MSDS/SDS management service. We also introduced our new 3E Online EU Labeling module, which provides multilingual access to EU labeling information. These two new solutions enable customers to streamline the management of their EH&S information and compliance requirements across global operations. For more information about these two new solutions, please click here.
We also announced a new enhancement to our award-winning 3E Online platform that helps customers comply with the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard 6 CFR Part 27. This innovative new capability enables customers to compare their chemical inventory against the DHS's Chemicals of Interest List to determine if they possess relevant products or chemicals. To view the full press release, please click here.
Finally, we are pleased to announce that 3E Company has received a 2007 Appreciation 
Award from the Academy of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers (ACHMM). The Award recognizes outstanding support by an outside entity in advancing the objectives of the Academy. 3E Company is the first and only EH&S information services company to ever receive the Award. To learn more about the award and why 3E Company was honored, please click here.
3E Online®-MSDS makes it easy it is to manage MSDSs for HazCom compliance, but 3E Online has many additional powerful tools:
- GLOBAL MSDS MANAGEMENT: Manage multi-lingual, multi-jurisdictional MSDSs.
- PRODUCT ATTACHMENTS: Tie product MSDSs to other related documents, such as technical data sheets, hazardous communications plans or other internal documents.
- CLASSIFICATION: Helps ensure products are stored and handled properly.
- SARA REPORTING: Quickly and easily generate the appropriate reports long before the deadline!
- LABELS: Quickly and easily print NFPA and HMIS secondary container labels.
- CHEMICAL APPROVAL: Control and effectively manage what specific chemicals enter a given facility.
- 3E-ARIEL REGIMPACT: Better understand the impact of regulatory changes on your business.
Alleviate regulatory compliance burdens that bog you down. To see these additional enhancements in action, schedule a demo today! Click here, call
3E in the News............................................................................................................
The August issue of HazMat Management includes an article by Prabhu Natarajan, Julia Tsvetkova and Tamie Webber on managing EH&S compliance from cradle to grave. The full article can be viewed here.
Tips N Tricks ...................................................................................................................
3E Online-MSDS
3E Online’s User Activity Reports
allow administrators to track usage of the online application. Two reports are provided for your convenience to monitor various 3E Online activities such as MSDS views, inventory adjustments, and catalog updates.- User Activity Summary: This report tracks the total usage by username for a selected date range.
- User Activity Detail: Provides usage information by month so that program administrators may track usage trends over a selected date range.
To access these reports, simply go to the Admin Tab and select Reports. Then choose the report, enter the desired date range and click ‘Run Report’. All reports are available in PDF or Excel.
Product News...................................................................................................................
The 3E team is constantly working to add improved, advanced and sophisticated features to 3E’s current products and services. Following are two new product enhancements that will be available in the third quarter of this year.
Product Enhancement: 3E Online
Functionality: Customer Action List
Scheduled Release Date: 3rd Quarter
Description: 3E Online users will have the ability to search and view items on their Customer Action list that are directly related to the users location. They will also be able to run a Customer Action report by location and export this into Excel for use internally to gather the required information.
Product Enhancement: 3E Online
Functionality: Inventory Item Notes
Scheduled Release Date: 3rd Quarter
Description: 3E Online users will have the ability add inventory item notes specific to a particular location. Users can add inventory notes by selecting the Edit Inventory Item from the Action Tab.
Ask the 3Experts...............................................................................................................
"When will the revised The Australian Dangerous Goods Code be published, and when will it take effect? Additionally, what major changes have been made to the code?"
The Australian Dangerous Goods Code (7th Edition) will be published in October 2007 and will take effect January 1, 2008. A one year overlap will be allowed between the 6th and 7th edition. The 6th edition will no longer apply after December 2008.
Key changes in the 7TH edition code
The Dangerous Goods List includes new substances UN3357 to UN3481 inclusive, with the exception of UN3372. Those substances which have been removed from the Dangerous Goods List have been assigned to special provision AU05, and will be phased out by 1 January 2011.
There is no longer a distinction between packaged dangerous goods and dangerous goods. The 7th Edition uses a container based approach, and divides containers into: packaging including IBCs ("International Bulk Containers") and large packaging (however, substances assigned to UN3077 and UN3082 will not be subject to the 7th Edition of the Code when being transported in IBCs or other receptacles < 500 kg); portable tanks and multiple element gas containers; bulk containers for solids only; tank vehicles; and cylinders and pressure drums.
This edition also provides detailed packing instructions and allows the use of pressure receptacles for packing liquids and solids as well as gases (including multiple element gas containers).
The 7th Edition contains Australian specific special provisions providing exemptions for: genetically modified organisms including genetically modified seed/feed products; greasy wool; UN3077 and UN3082 transported in IBCs or any other receptacle < 500; gas oil or diesel oil or heating oil, light or petroleum distillate (conditional); the transport of un-odorized LP Gas is prohibited; and UN numbers 1014, 1015, 1079, 1080, 1081 and 2600 will be phased out by 1 January 2011.
Additional changes include:
- Although the UN has introduced new environmentally hazardous markings for UN3077 and UN3082, when transported in packages, these substances are exempt from 7th Edition requirements (AU01);
- The use of orientation marking for certain combination and vented single packaging will not apply under 7th Edition;
- The new label for Organic Peroxide should be phased in over the lifespan of the 7th Edition and will not be valid after 1 January 2011;
- The 7th edition exempts inner packaging marked and labeled in accordance with GHS from Code requirements. This edition also provides an exemption from labels on inners where the European rectangular hazard pictograms are displayed;
- The Emergency Action Code for Liquefied Petroleum Gas is now indicated by 2YE (formerly 2WE);
- Reverse print codes have been dropped – breathing apparatus is now used for all incidents and a bullet.
Transport of smaller quantities of dangerous goods is now provided for in the following ways: very small consignments of dangerous goods are totally exempt; as a retail distribution load – small quantities of dangerous goods for personal or household use transported in mixed loads – max 20% of load or total aggregate quantity of 2,000 kg(L); as tools of trade - small quantities of dangerous goods used by trades people and others up to a limit of 500 kg(L) of which a maximum aggregate quantity must be less than 100 for Division 2.3 and Packing Group 1; non-commercial transport of up to 25% of a placard load; and as limited quantities permitted by the Dangerous Goods List.
The 7th Edition also provides new definitions for overpack, large packaging, multiple element gas container and retail distribution load, and new comprehensive requirements for the transport of infectious substances.
For more information, please visit http://www.ntc.gov.au.
- Mariana Facet
Ms. Facet is a senior analyst associate in the Americas Department at 3E Company where she monitors chemical, environmental, health & safety regulatory developments in Latin America.
Meet the 3Experts...........................................................................................................
Jillaine Dellis is the vice president of Ariel Global Research and Operations at 3E Company where she is responsible for leading Ariel's comprehensive global regulatory information decision support products and regulatory support services business. Ms. Dellis has been with Ariel for nearly five
years and she has more than 18 years of regulatory compliance leadership. Prior to joining Ariel Research, Ms. Dellis managed the regulatory compliance department for a top global consumer products company where her responsibilities included management of the company's compliance programs associated with FIFRA, TSCA, GLPs, GMPs and CPSC. Ms. Dellis was also responsible for global compliance of the company's food storage/food contact products. One of the highlights of her in tenure included the development and management of the company's global product safety, regulatory and environmental compliance assessment program.
Working with a well-educated team which is culturally, academically, and experientially diverse to develop and deliver products and services which meet the continuously evolving needs of an expanding client base is especially motivating for Ms. Dellis and is one of the many aspects of her job she enjoys. Additionally, as 3E Company expands both through acquisitions and organically, Ms. Dellis enjoys collaborating with her executive peers in determining how to best use Ariel’s data to gain competitive advantages in new market segments.
Ms. Dellis is the Chair of the Center for Social Leadership Board of Executive Directors, Chairs the Washington Metropolitan Leadership Committee and was Chair of the 2006 Field of Dreams gala. She is also on the Corporate Board at Milwaukee School of Engineering and has led and participated in a number of professional societies. Some of her activities include the Milwaukee School of Engineering Alumni Board of Directors and Biomedical Engineering Industrial Advisory Committee, Society of Quality Assurance Board of Directors, Founding Chair of the Council on Professional Registration (a certification program for regulatory quality assurance professionals), and the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers Board of Directors - Milwaukee section.
Ms. Dellis holds Master and Bachelor of Science Degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Marquette University and the Milwaukee School of Engineering respectively.
Events..........................................................................................................................
CONFERENCES
Come visit 3E at the following shows in September and October:
SCHC 2007 Fall Meeting
September 18, 2007
Location: Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, VA
ChemCon America's 2007
September 18-21, 2007
Location: Hilton Montréal Bonaventure, Montreal, Canada
ASSE Region 6 Professional Development Conference
September 19-20, 2007
Location: Kingston Plantation, Myrtle Beach, SC
Consorta's 2007 Annual Resource Management Conference
September 24, 2007
Location: Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago, IL
19th Annual Chicagoland Safety Conference
September 26, 2007
Location: Northern Illinois University, Naperville, IL
EEI Fall 2007 Occupational Safety & Health Conference
September 30 - October 2, 2007
Location: Westward Look Resort, Tucson, AZ
NSC Congress & Expo
October 15 - 17, 2007
Location: McCormick Place, Chicago, IL
Southern Oregon Occupational Safety & Health Conference
October 17-18, 2007
Location: Smullin Center, Medford, OR
PASMA Professional Development Workshop
October 24, 2007
Location: Knotts Berry Farm Resort, Buena Park, CA
Professional Conference on Industrial Hygiene
October 22-23, 2007
Location: Louisville Marriott Downtown, Louisville, KY
Current customers are invited to join 3E Company for our Customer Luncheon & Product Briefing on Tuesday, September 18 during the Society for Chemical Hazard Communication (SCHC) conference in Arlington, VA. This event will take place during the "On Your Own" lunch break in the Mt. Vernon Room inside the Crystal Gateway Marriott.
Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (During the "on your own" lunch)
Location: Mt. Vernon Room, inside the Crystal Gateway Marriott
To register for this free event, simply email Erica Miller at emiller@3ecompany.com or call
Current customers are invited to attend 3E Company's European Ariel User Group and Product Information Event for an in-depth, interactive 2-day event highlighting the latest developments in our next-generation offerings, including updates to Ariel Data Manager™ (ADM)-EHSAP, 3E Online® Global SDS Management featuring a REACH module, and an overview of the globally capable features of our newest product - MSDgen, an SDS authoring and management platform.
The event will take place September 25-26, 2007 in Brussels, Belgium at the Brussels Marriott Hotel located at 3-7 A.Orts Street, Grand Place, Brussels.
Please let us know as soon as possible if you are interested in attending all or any portion of this event. To register, please click here, or contact Erica Miller at
Current customers are also invited to join us for a User Group Dinner being held in conjunction with the National Safety Council (NSC) Congress & Expo in Chicago. The dinner will be held on Tuesday, October 16, 2007, at the Chicago Firehouse Restaurant. You do not need to attend the NSC conference in order to attend the event. Please have customers contact Erica Miller at
RECENT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
This month's featured employee, Jillaine Dellis, vice president of Ariel global research and operations, discussed GHS at the ACHMM 2007 National Conference last month.
Ms. Dellis also presented a poster on The ABCs of GHS, REACH and More. Isaac Powell, 3E product manager, presented a poster as well on Analyzing the business impact of regulatory change on your chemical inventory and MSDS management.
UPCOMING SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Ms. Dellis will be discussing GHS at the ASUG Product Lifecycle Management event on Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 8:00 a.m.
Industry Articles: News You Can Use......................................................
U.S., Canada and Mexico Announce Partnership for Industrial Chemical Safety
From SOCMA
EPA Posts New Emissions Estimate Methods
EPA's New Era of Environmental Chemical Testing