OSHA Safety Manual and Brochure Translation

Founded in 1939, The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is a regulatory agency of the United States Department of Labor that originally had federal visitorial powers to inspect and examine workplaces.

I was part of a team, in a proofreading and glossary building capacity, that translated a great deal of safety manuals, pictograms, brochures and posters into Spanish for OSHA. The vocabulary ranged from highly technical datasheets to very colloquial catch phrases, which demanded a balance between copywriting (or "transcreation") and technical writing - not to mention a whole bunch of research.

We produced an array of CSV, DOCX and XLIFF files produced by our CAT tool Smartcat.