Nothing wrong in principle with a video induction, provided there's opportunity to ask questions at the end. Seems remote that prosecution would hinge around that issue, as opposed to ensuring competency or perhaps provision of adequate supervision or task-specific instruction?

Are you sure it was not death by induction...attended one recently which lasted 4.5 hours!

Bob Using only a video is a lazy way to do an induction in my opinion and not particularly effective. When I did inductions on construction sites I would ask those present what their trades were and focus the induction on those areas. I also inherited an overly long induction presentation which I chopped out various sections which either did not apply or were not necessary, and added some other bits which were more relevant. For example, why am I telling a civils contractor how to support an excavation? A site induction is not a training medium, moreover if they do not know then we as the PC should not have engaged them if the first place. In my world less is more...but it appears to be a very exclusive club.