eSAFETYWORLD Announces Agreement With APEX Interactive.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SETAUKET, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 2000

eSAFETYWORLD, Inc. (Nasdaq:SFTY), a business-to-business e-commerce company specializing in serving the industrial safety market, announced today that APEX Interactive will host its e-commerce site and provide Internet marketing and technical services.

The newly upgraded site located at www.esafetyworld.com will debut on April 20, 2000 and will have more than 16,000 SKUs to provide customers with one-stop shopping for all of their industrial and cleanroom product needs. The site will also feature real-time customer service capabilities and will permit customers to open credit accounts while they wait.

James Brownfiel, eSAFETYWORLD's Chief Operating Officer, said: "We are very excited about this relationship. We believe that we have developed a user friendly site and a distribution system capable of delivering almost any product on an overnight basis. We intend to use these resources to make the purchasing effort much easier for our customers."

APEX Interactive, Inc. (www.APEXinteractive.com) is a Web development and marketing company that applies advanced technology and marketing strategies to create, host, maintain and increase sales at e-commerce sites. The company is dedicated to providing results-oriented e-commerce, giving businesses throughout the world a competitive edge in effectively selling products and services on the Internet. Since its founding in 1997, APEX Interactive has built hundreds of sites in a wide variety of industries. The Company, with offices in Milwaukee, Wis., and Chicago, Ill., projects revenue of $43 million in 2000.

About eSAFETYWORLD, Inc.

eSAFETYWORLD markets and distributes disposable industrial safety equipment to companies requiring protective garments for employees working in controlled cleanroom environments and those employees being exposed to environmental hazards. The Company plans to offer a Business-to-Business e-commerce site over the Internet offering 15,000 products, which will facilitate eSAFETYWORLD's distribution in the increasing market.

Statements in this news release concerning future results, performance, expectations or intentions are forward-looking statements. Actual results, performance or developments may differ materially from forward-looking statements as a result of known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including those identified in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, press releases and other public communications. In addition, nothing in the press release should be viewed as an update or comment on earlier forward looking statements provided by eSAFETYWORLD. As noted above, because actual results, performance or developments may differ materially from forward-looking statements, eSAFETYWORLD will not update such statements over the course of future periods.