3E Company And Logical Data Solutions Announce Strategic Alliance To Enable Customers To Manage EH&S And Compliance Obligations More Effectively

Integrated Environmental Compliance and Task Management Solution to Provide Instant Access to Critical Hazard Communication Documents and Data across the Organization

3E Company, a leading provider of environmental health and safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, and Logical Data Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of environmental compliance and task management systems, recently announced a strategic alliance to deliver integrated solutions designed to enable customers to comply more effectively and efficiently with EH&S, chemical management, hazard communication, and workplace safety regulatory requirements. 3E Company is a Verisk Analytics business.

"At 3E, we are committed to customer-driven innovation," said Uday Virkud, CEO and president, 3E Company. "To deliver complete solutions that respond to customers' unique requirements and enable them to achieve their compliance objectives, we form alliances with key providers of innovative, industry-leading systems. We're excited to collaborate with Logical Data Solutions and are confident that clients will benefit from having seamless access to 3E's award-winning SDS obtainment and management capabilities through the EPOCH environmental compliance and task management platform."

As a result of the strategic alliance, the award-winning 3E Online-SDS safety data sheet (SDS) management platform will be tightly integrated with EPOCH, Logical Data Solutions' scalable environmental compliance and task management system, to append current, compliant SDSs to each substance in the customer's EPOCH chemical master file. The integration provides customers with instant online access to their complete chemical inventory and associated SDSs by substance, by process, and by facility across the organization. Customers will be able to access this valuable information through multiple EPOCH environmental reporting modules, including Chemical Inventory (Tier 1 and Tier 2), Chemical Stockroom, and 313 Form R as well as Air Emissions (Title V reporting), Waste Management, Environmental Events, Permits, Tank Inventory, and IH Sampling.

"We're delighted with our new alliance with 3E and what it means in terms of business benefits for our mutual customers," said Bill King, vice president, Logical Data Solutions. "Having an automated SDS management interface within EPOCH's environmental reporting modules will eliminate manual processes, save time, improve data quality, and reduce risk for clients."

About 3E Company
3E Company, a Verisk Analytics business, offers a comprehensive suite of data and solutions for environmental health and safety (EH&S) compliance management. This solutions suite addresses the entire chemical life cycle and includes regulatory research; SDS authoring, distribution, and management; transportation; emergency response; training; regulatory reporting; and hazardous waste management. 3E provides an industry-leading combination of a 24/7/365 EH&S mission-control call center and the world's premier hazardous substance database of global regulatory and compliance information. 3E was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, California, with additional operations in Canton, Ohio; Bethesda, Maryland; Kingsport, Tennessee; Montreal, Quebec; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.3ecompany.com.

About Logical Data Solutions
Logical Data Solutions, Inc. (LDS) provides environmental compliance data management software through the EPOCH product line in addition to general application development and implementation services to hundreds of major corporations and government agencies. EPOCH, a series of integrated modules, provides detailed data analysis and reporting capabilities in areas such as hazardous material management, emissions source management, toxic chemical releases, and task management. Since its inception in 1983, LDS has provided a full range of services to client companies, including software products, customized application development, pre- and post-implementation support, data conversion, application interfaces, and training. For more information, visit www.logicalds.com.