Posted By lisa mccaulder Hi Tim Yes everyone is I think. I've recently written guidance for the Energy Institute on this very subject. Personally I don't like off the shelf stuff because its too generic. I don't know what industry you are in or if you are talkign contractors employees or your own here so any advice would vary based on that but basically make everything risk based. Most of what I have done is prepareing programmes to induct contractor employees onto my client's sites so my view will be based round that. if you intend to have these guys doing high risk work then we are talking simultaneous translation and a written test in their own language. In such cases we usually ask that the ganger/foreman/supervisor is bilingual (english plus the language your foreign workers speak obviously - no good him speaking Latin and Swahili!) If they are doing very low risk work ,with simple safety precautions, then pictorial stuff may well be sufficient. anything in the middle is a half way house between the two obviously. whatever you do make sure that you have appropraite supervision to ensure that they have understood the induction and are capable of applying what they have learnt. Try to put them with or near experienced staff in the first instance who can give them practical guidance. Monitoring and supervision will be your best friends. I hope that helps you but as I say it is mostly a contrator response rather than direct reports so I'm sorry if it proves not to be directly relevant. Lisa..