A standard only works if the people bound by it can follow it. For standards and certification bodies, that is a language problem as much as a training problem: the supply chain is global, but the training is usually produced once, in English.
REAS has produced 1,000+ technical and compliance videos in 12 languages for IAOB and SMMT across the automotive supply chain. This is how we approach multilingual compliance training, and how to keep it accurate in every language.
Suppliers, auditors and engineers are spread across regions and first languages. Training delivered only in English reaches the people who are comfortable in English and quietly excludes the rest. The result is uneven understanding across the supply chain, more questions back to the certification body, and a higher risk of non-conformities that trace back to a requirement someone could not follow.
Translating a 200-page document does not fix this. Few people complete it in any language. Video does, if it is localised properly rather than subtitled as an afterthought.
Subtitles are the baseline: they make a video searchable and accessible, and they are quick to produce. Voiceover goes further, letting a viewer watch in their own language without reading. Full localisation adapts on-screen text, examples and graphics so the content feels native rather than translated. Which one you need depends on the audience and the budget, and the three can be mixed across a library.
Compliance content cannot be paraphrased wrongly in a second language. A mistranslated clause is worse than no translation. Our production runs on a BSI ISO 9001 certified process (FS 763439), and technical leads review content before publication, so accuracy holds across every language version, not just the original.
We produce the source content and the localised versions as one workflow, rather than filming first and worrying about language later. For IAOB and SMMT we have delivered 1,000+ videos in 12 languages, and multilingual production has opened 14 new language markets for the content we manage. The same standard reaches the whole supply chain, in the language each part of it actually uses.
Pick the training with the widest international audience, the module suppliers most often misunderstand, and produce it as a short series with subtitles and voiceover in your priority languages. Measure completion by region, then expand into a structured multilingual library from there.
See how we approach video production for standards bodies, explore our work, or book a video strategy call to scope a multilingual series.
