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QNUK First Aid at Work Requalification in Derby
Two days at our Derby centre to renew a First Aid at Work certificate. Book it before the certificate expires: once it lapses, the short route closes.
About this course
The requalification covers the same outcomes as the three day course in two days, because you are refreshing rather than starting from scratch.
Your existing certificate has to be in date on the day of the course. That single condition is why we tell Derby employers to diary the renewal a couple of months ahead rather than the week the certificate runs out.
It is heavily practical, because technique fades over three years even when the knowledge does not.
The centre is Pride Park, Pride Park, Derby DE24. Pride Park is immediately off the A52 and close to the A6 and the A50, and Derby station is walkable from the centre.
We draw candidates from Burton upon Trent, Nottingham, Loughborough, Ashbourne, Ilkeston, Long Eaton, Belper and the wider Derbyshire and east Midlands area. If a date at Derby does not suit, the same course runs at our other centres and we can deliver it at your own premises anywhere in the UK.
- The role and responsibilities of a first aider, consent, and infection control, revisited
- Assessing an incident: the scene survey, the primary survey, and summoning assistance
- Adult CPR on a manikin, with feedback on depth, rate and recoil
- The recovery position, monitoring, and managing a seizure
- Choking, external bleeding and shock
- The secondary survey, and injuries to bones, muscles and joints, including slings
- Head, spinal, chest and eye injuries, burns and scalds
- Sudden poisoning and anaphylaxis, including the adrenaline auto injector
- Major illness: heart attack, stroke, epileptic seizure, asthma attack and diabetic emergency
- What has changed in guidance since you last qualified
How completing this course helps you
- A renewed QNUK Level 3 Award in First Aid at Work, valid for a further three years
- Continuity of first aid cover without anybody dropping off the list
- Two days out rather than three
- Practical skills back to the standard they were at on day one of the last certificate
Who should attend?
Qualified workplace first aiders across Derby and the east Midlands whose First Aid at Work certificate is in date and due for renewal.
Entry requirements. You must hold a First Aid at Work certificate that has not yet expired. If yours has run out, the full three day First Aid at Work course is the route back. Check the date on the certificate before you book rather than on the morning.
Ready to take the next step?
Choose a delivery option, compare dates and book with confidence, or ask MB and get an answer straight away.
At Derby
What to expect on the day
The course is the same wherever you sit it. What changes is the room, the journey and the people in it, and those matter more than providers usually admit.
Our Derby centre is Pride Park, Pride Park, Derby DE24. Pride Park is immediately off the A52 and close to the A6 and the A50, and Derby station is walkable from the centre. Joining instructions go out ahead of the course with timings, what to bring and where to go when you arrive.
If you are booking for a group and travel is the problem, we deliver this course at employers’ own premises anywhere in the country. For six or more people that is usually cheaper per head and nobody loses a day on the road.
Before the day
Joining instructions with timings, the address and what to bring. Tell us at booking if anybody needs support with reading, writing or access and we will sort it quietly.
On the day
Arrive a few minutes early. Bring photographic identification, which most awarding bodies require before they will certificate you.
Afterwards
We tell you the outcome and handle the registration and certification with the awarding body. If anything needs resitting we will get it booked.
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 first aider and the incident
- The role and responsibilities of a first aider
- Minimising the risk of infection to self and others
- The need for consent
- Conducting a scene survey and a primary survey
- Summoning appropriate assistance
Life threatening emergencies
- When to administer CPR, and demonstrating adult CPR on a manikin
- The recovery position and monitoring
- Seizures
- Choking, mild and severe
- External bleeding and shock
Injuries
- Minor injuries, minor burns and scalds
- Conducting a head to toe secondary survey
- Fractures, dislocations, sprains and strains, and applying support and elevated slings
- Suspected head and spinal injuries
- Suspected chest injuries
- Burns and scalds, and eye injuries
Poisoning, anaphylaxis and major illness
- Sudden poisoning and the routes into the body
- Anaphylaxis, and using an adrenaline auto injector training device
- Heart attack and stroke
- Epileptic seizure, asthma attack and diabetic emergency
Method of assessment
How the requalification is assessed
The same assessment as the full course, in two days rather than three.
Practical observations
Observed across the two days: scene and primary survey, adult CPR on a manikin, the recovery position, choking, bleeding control, head to toe survey, support and elevated slings, spinal injury management and the training adrenaline auto injector.
Multiple choice examination
A forty question multiple choice paper. The pass mark is twenty eight correct answers and the maximum time allowed is sixty minutes.
Certification
A renewed QNUK First Aid at Work certificate, valid for a further three years from the date of issue.
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.
Dates and locations
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Also available
In-company training
We run this one to order, at your place or ours.
Onsite / in-company
Run First Aid at Work Requalification 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.
Tell us roughly how many people and when, and we will come back with options and a price, or ask MB and get an answer straight away.
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
First Aid at Work Requalification FAQs
The requalification route closes and you need the full three day course. Check the date before booking rather than on the morning.
Three years. HSE guidance also recommends an annual refresher in between, which is a separate half day and a regulated qualification in its own right.
There is no legal number. It falls out of your own first aid needs assessment: hazards, headcount, shift patterns, lone workers, site layout and distance from help. Most employers train above the minimum so that holidays do not leave them uncovered.
Pride Park, Pride Park, Derby DE24. Pride Park is immediately off the A52 and close to the A6 and the A50, and Derby station is walkable from the centre. Full joining instructions with timings go out before the course.
The same course runs at our other centres in Stoke-on-Trent, Derby, Manchester and Liverpool, and we deliver it at employers’ own premises anywhere in the UK. Tell us roughly when you need it and we will find something or put a date on.
Yes, anywhere in the country. For six or more people it normally works out cheaper per head than sending everybody to a centre, and we can build the day around your shift patterns.
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