Why SDS authoring software matters
Authoring and maintaining SDS in-house gets harder as regulations diverge across markets, hazard classification criteria change, and product portfolios grow. Many teams still rely on spreadsheets or static templates, which makes it difficult to apply updates consistently or demonstrate compliance during an audit.
3E Generate replaces that patchwork with a single system of record, so your team can keep authoring in-house without falling behind on regulatory change.
Why choose 3E Generate?
Automate manual authoring steps
Automated rule application and formatting reduce the manual work behind every SDS, so your team spends less time on repetitive tasks and more time on judgment calls that require expertise.
Keep authoring decisions in-house
Your team retains direct control over prioritization, review, and sign-off, rather than routing every SDS through an external authoring queue.
Fit into your existing workflow
3E Generate is built to slot into how your regulatory and product stewardship teams already work, without requiring a separate authoring process to manage.
Stay current on GHS requirements
Continuously updated regulatory rules keep your authoring environment aligned with the latest GHS implementations, so compliance doesn’t depend on your team tracking every regional update manually.
Generate Professional Services add-on
Leveraging 3E’s regulatory experts and authoring professionals to augment and tailor your 3E Generate experience to your industry and corporate preferences.
Case Study - Veolia Water Solutions
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies transformed its global SDS authoring with 3E Generate, replacing a limited regional system with a powerful, multilingual, regulation‑driven platform. By streamlining SDS creation across 40 countries and improving data quality, Veolia gained efficiency, consistency, and confidence in meeting global compliance demands.
How does 3E Generate work?
Rules and logic that do the regulatory work for you
Rules
3E maintains a continuously updated global regulatory database, built and maintained by 150+ regulatory experts. These rules interpret GHS implementations by country and region, ingredient-level regulatory lists, and concentration thresholds, so your team isn’t researching each requirement from scratch.
Logic
A structured, expert-designed logic engine applies those rules consistently every time an SDS is generated, whether it’s one document or a thousand. That consistency is what lets your team scale authoring across products and regions without introducing errors as volume grows.
Consistency across global SDS
Phrases
3E Generate draws on a curated, multilingual library of compliant phrases, so hazard statements, precautionary language, and other required text stay consistent across every SDS your team authors, regardless of who on your team is doing the authoring.
Multilingual governance
That consistency carries across languages and markets, giving your team one governed source of language rather than separate translations to reconcile by hand. The result is SDS that read the same way, and mean the same thing, wherever they’re published.
Author across jurisdictions from a single platform
Selling into multiple markets means meeting different requirements in each one — OSHA Hazard Communication in the U.S., WHMIS in Canada, and GHS-based frameworks that vary by country in how they’ve been adopted. Authoring correctly for each jurisdiction typically means your team tracking classification thresholds, required phrases, and formatting rules separately for every market you serve.
3E Generate embeds jurisdiction-specific rules directly into the authoring platform, so your team works from one system regardless of how many markets you’re authoring for. When a jurisdiction updates its requirements — a new GHS revision, a WHMIS classification change, an OSHA HazCom amendment — 3E updates the underlying rules engine, and that update is reflected the next time your team authors or revises an affected SDS. Your team stays in control of when and how documents are generated; the regulatory currency behind them is maintained for you.
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How does SDS authoring software work?
3E Generate combines a continuously updated regulatory rules database, a structured logic engine, and a curated multilingual phrase library into one platform, so your team can generate accurate, compliant SDS without researching each requirement manually.
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What does implementing 3E Generate involve?
Implementation typically includes mapping your product and formulation data into the platform and configuring it to your portfolio and target markets. 3E’s team supports this setup so your authoring team can start generating SDS without a lengthy ramp-up.
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Who on our team needs to run 3E Generate?
Most organizations run it with their existing product stewardship, regulatory affairs, or EHS staff. The platform is built to fit into those teams’ workflows rather than requiring a dedicated specialist role.
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Should we use SDS authoring software or outsource authoring entirely?
Software like 3E Generate suits teams who want to author SDS themselves with regulatory support built in. Outsourcing suits teams without the internal capacity to author at all, or during periods of overflow. Many organizations use both, authoring some SDS in-house while outsourcing overflow or specific markets to 3E.
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Is SDS authoring software suitable for global operations?
Yes. SDS authoring software is designed to support multijurisdictional compliance, allowing organizations to author SDS for multiple regions and languages from a single system.
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How does SDS authoring software reduce compliance risk?
By enforcing standardized regulatory logic and maintaining a single source of truth, SDS authoring software ensures SDS remain accurate, current, and defensible during audits and inspections.
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Who is SDS authoring software for?
3E’s SDS Authoring Software is designed for organizations that manage products compliance and regulatory obligations, including:
- Product stewardship and regulatory affairs teams
- EHS and compliance leaders
- Chemical manufacturers and formulators
- Downstream manufacturers managing regulated substances
- Enterprises operating across multiple regions and regulatory regimes
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3E SDS Authoring Services
Outsourced SDS authoring means handing safety data sheet creation and maintenance to a specialized external team instead of managing it in-house. 3E’s outsourced SDS authoring services put a global team of regulatory specialists behind your program, so your organization can maintain compliant, audit-ready SDS across every market you serve without growing internal headcount.
Whether you need a fully managed authoring program, extra capacity during periods of regulatory change, or support launching in new markets, 3E scales to match your needs. Our specialists pair deep regulatory expertise with established authoring workflows to deliver accurate, compliant SDS and labels on your timeline.
