Inclusive Opportunities and Universal Packaging Charter
The PAC IOU Charter – Inclusive Opportunities and Universal Design Charter – has been developed in collaboration with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and PAC Global, a not-for-profit packaging association. To sign this charter, you must be a PAC Global Member – please complete the application before becoming a signatory.
Sign the charter and help advance the PAC IOU purpose; to champion packaging design by everyone, for everyone.
PAC IOU Accessibility & Inclusivity Charter
On June 14th, 2022, leaders from Kellogg’s, Procter & Gamble, Aire Global, Royal National Institute for Blind People (RNIB), and PAC Global met to sign the PAC IOU Accessibility and Inclusivity Charter at the Procter & Gamble Weybridge UK offices. Sign the charter and join them and other PAC Global members in working to advance change in packaging industry.
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Purpose
To champion packaging design by everyone, for everyone.
Vision
An inclusive packaging world.
Mission
To educate and transform the packaging value chain by engaging everyone in the process, to ensure accessibility.
Founding Charter Signatories
Inclusivity
This group seeks to leave no one behind, and champions change for all
- abilities
- ages
- disabilities
- learning styles
- classes
- gender
- life experiences
- neurodiversity
- races/ethnicities
- religion
- sexual orientations
- and, any other difference
Accessibility
7 Principles of Universal Design
1. Equitable Use
2. Flexibility in Use
3. Simple & Intuitive Use
4. Perceptible Information
5. Tolerance for Error
6. Low Physical Effort
7. Size/Space for Approach & Use
PAC Global Members Supporting the PAC IOU Charter
This Charter demonstrates the commitment of PAC Global and its members to foster an inclusive packaging industry that produces accessible packaging worldwide. This Charter does not supersede any existing accessibility or inclusivity policies within member organizations, but reaffirms the commitment of PAC Global Members to advance packaging design by everyone, for everyone.
PAC IOU Charter
This PAC IOU Charter is to unite, galvanize and champion package design by everyone for everyone.
The aim of this Charter is to ensure people’s differences are recognized and incorporated into every stage of the packaging design and manufacturing process.
By endorsing this Charter, organizations have affirmed their commitment to creating equal opportunities for all, and to make packaging easy to use, and associated information easy to access, use and understand.
This Charter goes beyond design concepts and products, extending to the inclusivity of the industries workforce now and in the future.
Together, the organizations who support this Charter share the PAC IOU vision of an inclusive packaging workforce. A workforce where differences are valued and celebrated with the aim of creating a world where everyone can develop to their full potential, inspiring new approaches to innovation within universal package design, organically leading to accessible packaging becoming the norm globally.
Sign the Charter