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QNUK Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work (RQF)
One day, and the qualification most lower hazard workplaces land on after a first aid needs assessment. The emergencies that will not wait, covered properly, with a certificate valid for three years.
About this course
The QNUK Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work is the one day workplace first aid qualification. It is the standard answer for offices, shops, hospitality, education and service environments where a first aid needs assessment points at emergency cover rather than the full three day award.
It concentrates on the incidents that have to be dealt with in the first few minutes: an unresponsive casualty, CPR, the recovery position, choking, serious external bleeding, shock, seizures, and minor injuries and burns. It does not attempt the wider ground the three day First Aid at Work award covers, and it is not meant to.
That focus is its strength. One day, mostly practical, and everybody in the room leaves able to start CPR and control a bleed rather than able to describe them.
We run it at our centres in Stoke-on-Trent, Derby, Manchester and Liverpool, and onsite at employers' premises nationwide. There are versions of this award with catastrophic bleeding, forestry and security units added, and we can tell you which one your risk assessment is pointing at.
- The role and responsibilities of an emergency first aider, consent and infection control
- Assessing an incident: the scene survey, the primary survey, and summoning assistance
- When to administer CPR, and demonstrating adult CPR on a manikin
- When and how to place a casualty in the recovery position, and monitoring them there
- First aid for a casualty experiencing a seizure
- Choking, mild and severe
- Identifying the severity of external bleeding and controlling it
- Recognising and treating shock
- Minor injuries, and minor burns and scalds
How completing this course helps you
- QNUK Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work, valid for three years
- The qualification most lower hazard first aid needs assessments call for
- Staff who can act in the first few minutes rather than wait for the ambulance
- Support for your duties under the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981
Who should attend?
Employees nominated as emergency first aiders, particularly in lower hazard workplaces such as offices, retail, hospitality, education and service environments. It also suits small businesses needing practical first aid cover, and managers or responsible persons who want a formal workplace qualification.
Entry requirements. None. You need to be physically able to carry out practical first aid on the floor, including CPR on a manikin, and to have enough English to follow the training and the written assessment.
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Course content
What you will cover
The qualification is structured around the management of health and safety and the practical application of risk assessment.
The emergency first aider
- The role and responsibilities of a first aider
- How to minimise the risk of infection to self and others
- The need for consent to provide first aid
- Conducting a scene survey
- Conducting a primary survey of a casualty
- Summoning appropriate assistance when necessary
Emergency first aid
- When to administer CPR, and demonstrating adult CPR on a manikin
- When to place a casualty into the recovery position, and demonstrating it
- Monitoring breathing while a casualty is in the recovery position
- First aid for a casualty experiencing a seizure
- Choking, mild and severe
- Identifying the severity of external bleeding and controlling it
- Recognising and treating shock
- Minor injuries: small cuts, grazes, bruises and small splinters
- Minor burns and scalds in line with accepted current practice
Method of assessment
How Emergency First Aid at Work is assessed
Two steps. Practical observation through the day, then a short written paper.
Practical observation
You are observed carrying out the scene and primary survey, summoning assistance, adult CPR on a manikin, the recovery position and monitoring, choking, and identifying and controlling life threatening external bleeding.
Multiple choice examination
A fifteen question multiple choice paper. The pass mark is eleven correct answers and the maximum time limit is thirty minutes.
Certification
Issued by QNUK and valid for three years. Renewal is by retaking the course, and HSE guidance also recommends an annual refresher in between.
Ways to learn
How you can take this course
Every route covers the same accredited syllabus and the same support. Pick the one that fits how your people work.
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Run Emergency First Aid at Work at your site
We deliver anywhere in the UK, on your dates and around your shift patterns. For six or more people it is usually cheaper per head than sending everyone to a centre, and nobody loses a day travelling.
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What onsite includes
- The same tutor, materials and certification as our centres
- Your venue or one we arrange near you
- Dates and start times built around your operation
- One invoice and one point of contact for the whole group
- Content examples drawn from your own workplace
Emergency First Aid at Work FAQs
It is the one day workplace first aid qualification covering the emergencies that have to be handled immediately: an unresponsive casualty, CPR, the recovery position, choking, serious bleeding, shock, seizures and minor injuries. It is the qualification most lower hazard workplaces arrive at through a first aid needs assessment.
That depends on your first aid needs assessment rather than on a rule. The HSE splits workplaces into lower and higher hazard, and factors in headcount, shift patterns, lone working and distance from help. Lower hazard usually lands on EFAW. If several of those factors point the other way, look at the three day First Aid at Work award.
Three years. Unlike First Aid at Work there is no shorter requalification route: you retake the one day course. HSE guidance recommends an annual refresher in between, which is a separate half day.
Practical observation through the day, plus a fifteen question multiple choice paper with a pass mark of eleven correct answers and thirty minutes allowed.
No. It assumes nothing and it suits people taking on first aid responsibility for the first time.
Yes. The same one day award is available with catastrophic bleeding control, with a forestry unit, and in a version developed to support the SIA requirement for security officers. Tell us what the work involves and we will point you at the right one.
Three years. The HSE also recommends an annual refresher in between, which is a half day and keeps skills and confidence current rather than letting them fade for three years at a time.
Yes, anywhere in the UK. For six or more people it is normally cheaper per head than sending everybody to a centre, and nobody loses a day travelling. We work around your shift patterns.
At our centres in Stoke-on-Trent, Derby, Manchester and Liverpool, at your own premises nationwide, and through our partner network where a local option suits you better. Pick a date from the board on this page or call 0330 124 2165.
QNUK, an Ofqual regulated awarding organisation. This one is QNUK Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work (RQF), accreditation number 603/2458/2. We are an approved QNUK centre.
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