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Thursday, September 22, 2005 — 3E Company®, the leading provider of chemical, regulatory and compliance information services, announced today that the Company has been awarded the Commitment to Worker Safety Award from Compliance Magazine. Recognized for outstanding safety practices in the category of MSDS Services, the award recognizes 3E's proven track record in providing organizations with the best in MSDS distribution and management services, built on 3E's extensive knowledge of EH&S business rules and best practices. An award plaque was presented during the National Safety Council Congress & Exposition, taking place this week at the Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.

"These awards are designed to recognize outstanding products, services and solutions that contribute to a safer workplace," said Betty Hintch, editor for Compliance Magazine. "3E's MSDS services enable streamlined management and distribution of critical information in a manner highly customized to their customers' industry-specific requirements. With this award we recognize 3E's accomplishments in safety solutions for the third time."

A panel of impartial industry experts evaluated each entry based on innovation, impact on worker safety, and ease of use. The 2005 judging panel included:

• Jan Rosenberg, CSP, CSHM, CPCU, ARM, AIM, chief administrative officer for the Nevada Safety Consultation and Training Section
  
• Nancy Moorhouse, MSP, CSP, ARM, CSHM, vice president and director of safety for Teichert Construction/Teichert Materials
  
• Tom Slavin, manager, occupational safety and health, International Truck & Engine Corporation.

"We're thrilled to accept this award, for the third time, from an industry-leading authority on safety in the workplace," said Robert S. Christie, president and CEO of 3E Company. "We have always been well-known in the market for superior MSDS related services. Its nice to receive this award as validation that we continue to maintain a strong position as a market leader."

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 regulatory compliance management by alleviating the pain, managing risk, increasing the efficiency and enhancing staff productivity, enabling EH&S professionals to focus on more strategic functions. Today more than 7,000 customers have partnered with 3E including AT&T, Costco Wholesale Corporation, America West, Eastman Chemical, Temple-Inland, L.L. Bean, Menasha, PacifiCorp and Truserv. 3E was founded in 1988 and is the recipient of the 2002, 2003 and 2005 Commitment to Worker Safety Award in Online and MSDS Services from Compliance Magazine. The privately held company is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA with additional operations in Bethesda, Md., Kingsport, Tenn., 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.