FPA Submits Comments on OSHA’s Proposed Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Regarding OSHA’s Walkaround Representative Designation Process

The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) is respectfully submitting comments on OSHA’s proposed Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM or Notice) regarding OSHA’s Walkaround Representative Designation Process (i.e., the proposed “walkaround rule”). FPA is a national trade association, established in 1950, comprised of manufacturers and suppliers of flexible packaging. The industry produces packaging for food, healthcare, and industrial products using coating and lamination of paper, film, foil, or any combination of these materials to manufacture bags, pouches, labels, liners, wraps, rollstock, and tamper-evident packaging for food and medicine. Flexible packaging is a $42.9 billion industry that employs roughly 85,000 people in the United States and is the second largest and fastest growing segment of the U.S. packaging market. FPA’s members generally are not represented by the building and trades unions.