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Monday, November 06, 2006 — 3E Company®, the leading provider of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, today announced that it has won three Compliance Magazine Commitment to Worker Safety Awards. This is the fourth year that 3E Company's solutions have been honored and the only year in the history of the competition that three awards have been bestowed upon one company's solutions.

3E Company's Ariel WebInsight, an online chemical regulatory compliance reference tool, was recognized as Best in Online Services, while 3E Online-MSDS, an industry-leading Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) management solution, was honored as Best in MSDS Services. 3E Compliance Calendar, a comprehensive, outsourced compliance reporting solution, achieved Best in Environmental Management. This is the third time that 3E Company has won the Best in Online Services category and the second year in a row that 3E has been recognized as the Best in MSDS Services.

The Compliance Magazine Commitment to Worker Safety Award recognizes achievements in EH&S industry product and service development. A panel of impartial industry experts evaluated each entry based on innovation, impact on worker safety, and ease of use. The winners will be profiled in the November/December issue of Compliance Magazine and in its weekly Email Report.

"The selection of 3E's solutions in their various relevant categories attests to the quality and breadth of the company's offerings in a wide range of EH&S data and outsourcing services," said Betty Hintch, editor of Compliance Magazine.

The multiple wins demonstrate 3E Company's secure leadership position throughout the chemical lifecycle supply chain. The company's two flagship products, 3E Online-MSDS and Ariel WebInsight, focus on two major stages of the lifecycle. While 3E Online-MSDS is a workplace safety-focused MSDS management solution for chemical users, Ariel WebInsight is a product safety and stewardship solution focused on providing chemical manufacturers with the highest quality chemical regulatory content. 3E Company's Compliance Calendar solution was also recognized, which signifies an increased focus on the growing need for efficient and accurate regulatory reporting and the viability of outsourced solutions.

"We are very pleased to have set an industry record with three prestigious Commitment to Worker Safety Awards," said Robert S. Christie, CEO and president, 3E Company. "3E is continually working to provide our customers with the highest quality solutions and services and we are honored that our commitment has again been celebrated and validated by Compliance Magazine, a highly-regarded, independent and objective third party. We are proud to be the only MSDS management service or regulatory data content provider to achieve such recognition."

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 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 Bethesda, MD, Kingsport, TN, 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.