Safety training videos for employees, made with AI

Safety training videos for employees are easiest to make and keep current as short clips, one hazard each: the rule, why it matters, and what to do, set against your own site. AI can make the spoken part, a presenter reading your approved script with captions and in the languages your crew speaks, but it should not demonstrate the procedure itself.

The Sume facts below come from the Generate avatar video, Create new avatar, Video captions and Timeline 1.0 docs, the Sume API reference and Sume's Terms of Service, read on 2026-09-29. Points marked as current behavior are read from Sume's code.

What should a workplace safety video cover?

One hazard per clip keeps each video short and lets you replace one clip when a rule changes. For each hazard, the script answers three things: what the rule is, why it exists on your site, and what to do or whom to tell. Examples: PPE for a task, spills and slips, lifting, fire exits and assembly points, and reporting a near miss.

Which topics your workplace must train on, and whether a video counts toward a training requirement, is set by your regulator and your safety program, not by the tool that makes the video.

Can AI show the safe way to do the task?

Not reliably. A video model invents every frame past the image you give it, so it can show a wrong grip, a missing glove or a machine that doesn't exist, and nothing in the pipeline checks the procedure. Sume's terms say generated outputs may be inaccurate and should not be treated as professional advice. Keep the AI to the presenter and the words, and film real demonstrations on your own equipment.

What you can do is put your real site behind the presenter: a photo at a public HTTPS URL can go in as the avatar clip's scene reference.

How do I make safety training videos with AI?

The build is the same as any AI training module: one presenter clip per step, a caption job per clip, and a Timeline render if you want them joined. AI training video generator walks through those calls. What changes for safety:

• Create a presenter once from a text prompt, profile traits or a reference photo. A real supervisor's photo needs their permission: the terms say you represent that you have permission to use any person's likeness or voice.
• Send one script per hazard to POST /v1/avatar-1.0/talking-video. Sume accepts a script when it estimates the video at 4 to 60 seconds. Pick 16:9 for a break-room screen or 9:16 for phones; 720p is the documented resolution.
• Caption each clip before any join with POST /v1/video-captions, and pass script_text so the burned words follow your approved script. In current code the caption job refuses a video over 60 seconds or one without an audio stream.

How do I make safety videos in Spanish or other languages?

In current code the avatar route speaks English only. For another language, generate the speech with text to speech, setting language (the reference says to set it for every non-English transcript), then lip-sync the same presenter to that audio with VEED Fabric 1.0, which takes a Sume-hosted audio_url of at most 10 MB and up to 300 seconds. Given an avatar_handle, Fabric animates that avatar's own still, so the site photo behind the English clip does not carry over. Have a fluent speaker check each translation before it reaches the floor. What languages can an AI avatar speak covers voice and language mismatches.

curl -X POST https://api.sume.com/v1/tts-1.0/generate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUME_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: spill-es-voice" \
  -d '{ "avatar_handle": "acme_safety", "language": "es",
        "transcript": "Si ves un derrame, detente y avisa a tu supervisor." }'

curl -X POST https://api.sume.com/v1/veed/fabric-1.0 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUME_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: spill-es-clip" \
  -d '{ "avatar_handle": "acme_safety", "resolution": "720p",
        "audio_url": "https://media.sume.com/artifacts/artf_demo/spill-es.mp3",
        "duration_seconds": 6 }'

How much do safety training videos cost?

Each step is billed per call from one prepaid balance: the presenter once, then each clip by its length.