Translate a document
Read a SafetyDocs document in Español, Français, Deutsch, 中文 or 日本語, keep translations up to date after edits, and remove one you no longer need.
A translation is the same document in another language. It keeps the document's layout, hazard tables and lists, with the words in that language. Everyone who can open the document can read its translations.
- Open the document.
- Choose … on the right of the document, then Translations, then a language under Translate into. You need to be able to edit the document to translate it. A document of up to 60 pages can be translated.
Translating can take a few minutes. The translation opens when it's ready.
Read a translation
Choose …, then Translations, then the language to read in. A translation can't be edited: change the original, then translate again. Choose Back to the original's language to return to it.
Keep it up to date
When the original changes, its translations show Out of date. Open one and choose Translate again. The last translation shows until the new one is ready.
Check it before you rely on it
AI can get a translation wrong. Have someone who reads the language check it, especially the hazards and controls, before workers rely on it. If a passage couldn't be translated, it stays in the original language and the translation says how many.
Remove a translation
Open it, choose …, then Translations, then Remove translation.
AI credits
Translating uses AI credits, a monthly allowance on every plan that converting files shares. A translation uses what its AI work costs, for each language: typically under half a credit a page, so translating a 1,000-word document into Spanish and Chinese uses about 4. Translating again uses them again. A translation that works uses them; one that fails doesn't. How AI credits work has the details.
See what's left under Plan and usage. When they run out, buy 1,000 more under Plan and usage: credits you buy never expire, and your plan's monthly credits are used first.