Restaurant kitchens move fast. Employees need to understand how to protect themselves from the hazards around them, whether they are handling a knife, working beside a hot fryer, lifting a heavy box, using cleaning chemicals, or responding to an emergency.

And employee safety training only works when employees can understand what they are being taught.

That's why we're excited to announce that Restaurant Employee Safety Training (REST) is now available in Spanish.

Spanish-speaking employees can now move through REST with Spanish instructions, Spanish closed captions on all 13 restaurant employee safety training topics, Spanish quizzes, and Spanish certificates.

And we're not stopping there. Fully Spanish-language versions of the REST training videos are being added to the program as they are completed, giving restaurants an expanding library of training with Spanish audio as well.

The important part is that restaurants don't have to wait.

Spanish-speaking employees can begin using REST today.

Restaurant Employee Safety Training Should Be Understood

Restaurant employees work around hazards every day. Wet floors, sharp knives, hot equipment, boiling liquids, heavy boxes, chemicals, electrical equipment and open flames are simply part of the environment.

Training someone about those hazards isn't enough if the employee can't easily understand the training.

That's why we wanted the Spanish REST experience to go beyond simply translating a page or adding a few Spanish instructions.

Employees can navigate their training in Spanish, watch the training with Spanish captions, take their quizzes in Spanish and receive their certificates in Spanish.

The goal is the same regardless of language: help restaurant employees recognize hazards, understand what to do and make safer decisions while they're working.

All 13 REST Employee Safety Training Topics Are Available With Spanish Captions

Spanish-speaking employees currently have access to the complete REST employee training library with Spanish closed captions.

The REST training topics include:

• Slips, Trips and Falls
• Preventing Cuts
• Preventing Burns and Hot-Surface Injuries
• Chemical Safety, Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
• Lifting and Spinal Care
• Fire Safety
• Robbery Prevention
• ABCs of Fire Extinguishers
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Emergency Exits
• Youth and Teen Safety
• Bloodborne Pathogens
• Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
• Preventing Ergonomic Injuries

These aren't generic workplace examples that happen to be shown to restaurant employees. REST was built specifically around the hazards restaurant employees encounter while doing restaurant work.

Spanish Quizzes Help Reinforce What Employees Learn

Watching a training video is important, but we also want employees to demonstrate that they understood what they were taught.

That's why REST includes a quiz following each training topic.

Spanish-speaking employees can take their quizzes in Spanish, and they can retake a quiz when necessary until they achieve the required score.

The questions reinforce practical restaurant situations employees may actually encounter—from choosing the correct PPE and handling hot equipment to recognizing chemical hazards, responding to a robbery or knowing what to do during a fire.

The purpose isn't to make testing difficult.

It's to help make sure the employee understood the training.

Employees Can Receive Their Certificates in Spanish

Documentation is an important part of an ongoing employee safety training program.

After successfully completing the required training and quiz, employees can receive a Spanish-language certificate documenting their completion.

That gives the employee something tangible showing what they accomplished while also helping restaurant managers maintain records of employee safety training.

Training matters.

Being able to document that the training occurred matters too.

Fully Spanish-Language REST Training Videos Are Being Added

Spanish captions make the complete REST employee safety training library accessible today, but we're taking the program another step further.

We are also producing fully Spanish-language versions of the REST training videos.

The first fully Spanish-language videos are already available, and additional Spanish-audio videos will continue to be added as they are completed until the complete training library is available in Spanish audio as well.

Restaurants do not need to wait for that process to be completed to begin training Spanish-speaking employees.

Every REST employee safety training topic can already be accessed with Spanish closed captions, Spanish instructions, Spanish quizzes and Spanish certificates.

As the new Spanish-language videos are completed, they'll simply make an already-available Spanish training experience even better.

One Restaurant Can Have Employees Who Prefer Different Languages

REST allows restaurants to keep their employee safety training program together while giving employees access to training they can understand.

English-speaking employees can use the English REST experience.

Spanish-speaking employees can use the Spanish REST experience.

Managers can continue focusing on the same goal: keeping restaurant employee safety training moving and documented.

REST Was Built for the Way Restaurants Actually Operate

Restaurants don't stop operating so managers can implement training programs.

There are customers to serve, employees to schedule, deliveries arriving, equipment that needs attention and a hundred other things competing for a manager's time.

That's why REST was designed as an ongoing system rather than something restaurant managers have to continually create themselves.

The training is there.

The quizzes are there.

The certificates are there.

The tracking tools are there.

And now the Spanish employee training experience is there too.

Restaurant Employee Safety Training in Spanish Is Available Today

This is an important step for REST, but more importantly, it's another way restaurants can help employees understand how to protect themselves at work.

Whether an employee is learning how to prevent a cut, avoid a serious burn, lift safely, work with chemicals, respond during a robbery, use the correct fire extinguisher or safely leave the building during an emergency, understanding the training matters.

REST is now making that training accessible to more restaurant employees.

And we'll keep building from here.

Want to See How REST Works in Your Restaurant?

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Explore the complete REST Compliance Protection System™, including the Restaurant Manager's Safety Command Center™, employee safety training and the tools that help managers keep training organized and documented.

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And you can give up to five employees access to experience the employee training too.

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