Compliance training videos for employees: when to buy a library and when to build your own

We make Reigniter, which is for building your own modules, so we are not neutral. Everything here about another company comes from that company's own page, and the legal points come from the Health and Safety Executive's own pages. All are listed at the end and were read on 10 November 2026. This is not legal advice.

What the law asks of employers

HSE's guidance for businesses is direct: "You must give your workers clear instructions and information, as well as adequate training and supervision." It names the people who need particular attention: "new recruits, people changing jobs or taking on extra responsibilities, young employees and health and safety representatives."

HSE's brief guide to health and safety training sets out five steps:

1. Decide what training your organisation needs
2. Decide your training priorities
3. Choose your training methods and resources
4. Deliver the training
5. Check that the training has worked

The steps name no format or platform. They ask you to decide what your organisation needs, then check the training worked. That second part is where many compliance videos fall short: a video someone played is not evidence that they understood it.

For the duties topic by topic (fire, display screens, manual handling, hazardous substances and data protection), see our guide to UK mandatory staff training.

Two ways to get compliance training

The ready-made libraries, from their own pages

iHasco describes "Over 250 high quality online courses" and a "library of high-quality, video-based online courses" covering health and safety, HR, compliance and soft skills. It says its courses "can be machine translated into over 41 international languages", and its LMS is called Atlas.

High Speed Training lists "over 180 online courses" in food hygiene, education, safeguarding, health and safety and other areas. It says all courses are "accredited by the CPD Certification Service", and it has its own learner management system.

Skillcast describes "600+ compliance training courses", and separately "250+ 5-minute compliance modules".

These are good buys when the topic is the same for everyone and an accredited certificate matters, such as a food hygiene level. You pay for content you did not have to write, and you can start the same week.

When a library is not enough

A library course teaches the general rule. It cannot teach:

• Your own policy. How your company handles expenses, data requests, gifts or lone working.
• Your own site. Where your fire assembly point is, which areas need PPE, which machines need a permit.
• Your own reporting route. Who to tell, on which form, by when.
• What changed last month. A new procedure that no supplier has written yet.

These are specific to your workplace, so they have to be written by someone who knows it. That usually means a short module of your own alongside the library course.

How to build your own compliance module

The HSE steps translate into a build like this.

1. Decide what it must teach. Start from the policy, the risk assessment or the procedure. Write one objective that can be tested, such as the learner can say where to report a near miss.
2. Prioritise. New starters and people changing roles come first, as HSE's list suggests.
3. Choose the format. A short presented module with questions on the screen gives you answers to check, which a document to scroll does not.
4. Deliver it where people already are. Your LMS, a link, or a page on your intranet or website.
5. Check it worked. Use a pass mark, review the wrong answers, and keep the records.

In Reigniter, you import the documents you already have: "Choose up to 100 PDF, PowerPoint or Word files and each becomes its own module, improved with AI or kept as it is." Questions sit on the slide, and "A right answer moves on and a wrong one goes to a recap". You set "One attempt, a timer and a pass mark per module". A pass issues your own certificate, with "an expiry date, with a number and a public verify link."

For step five, the dashboard holds "records, scores, time on each page, who is in a module right now, and a CSV export." Modules export as SCORM 1.2 for the LMS you already run, or play behind a share link with learners signing in by emailed code. Automations can "chase overdue training with a note to their manager, and re-train before a certificate lapses."

What it costs

The Interactive Training plan is $149 a month with 5 seats and 385 credits, and Agency is $199. "A voiced step or slide uses about one credit", and every priced action shows its cost before it runs. The free plan includes one module of up to 5 steps, with questions and branching, shared by link, so you can build one policy module before you pay.

Library prices vary by provider and number of learners, so ask each for a quote on the courses you actually need.

Who Reigniter does not suit

• Teams who want ready-made courses, or courses written for them. "We supply the platform, your team makes the training." Asked whether it makes the training for you, the FAQ answers "No."
• An LMS that requires SCORM 2004. "We do not offer a 2004 export."
• Anyone who needs SCORM on the free plan. Free modules are shared by link only.
• Teams who want one very long module. A module can have up to 150 steps, and "Longer documents are split into parts."

The quick decision

Buy a library for the topics that are the same everywhere. Build your own modules for the points only your organisation can teach. Whichever you use, make sure each course ends with questions and a record, so you can show it worked.

For new starters, our health and safety induction checklist lists what an induction should cover.

Sources

Read on 10 November 2026.

Regulator

• HSE, provide information, training and supervision
• HSE, health and safety training: a brief guide (INDG345)

Other companies

• iHasco
• High Speed Training
• Skillcast, compliance training courses

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