Safety, Quality, and Margin: How Language Access is Costing Manufacturers More Than They Think

Manufacturers are losing more to language failures than they realize through safety incidents, quality defects, compliance exposure, and margin erosion. When training is translated but not truly understood, the risks show up on the floor as OSHA violations, scrap, rework, downtime, and avoidable injuries. Yet language access is still often treated as an HR issue instead of an operational one. In this webinar, manufacturing leaders will learn how language access directly impacts safety, quality, and profitability. We’ll break down OSHA’s “understood, not translated” standard, examine where communication breakdowns create hidden costs, and show how multilingual training, ASL access for Deaf workers, and standardized language strategies across plants reduce risk, improve performance, and strengthen workforce retention. Language access isn’t just about compliance, it’s a lever for safer operations and stronger margins.