First Aid Response Recertification (FARR) 2 Day Course

Is your First Aid Response Certificate due for renewal?

In compliance with the requirements of the Safety, Health & Welfare at Work Regulations 2007 First Aid Response certificates must now be renewed every 2 years and within 3 months of the expiry date of your current certification.

First Aid is a perishable skill, if you don’t use it regularly you get a little rusty ! and confidence in an emergency situation is reduced. This 2-day Recertification Course is designed to refresh your knowledge of the practical skills and understanding required to provide First Aid in the workplace and summarises the content of the full 3-day programme.

What will you learn on this course ?

You will understand the role of the First Aid Responder in the continuum of care.
You will learn how to assess a casualty’s condition and make a decision regarding referral for further medical assessment.
You will learn how to assess and treat common medical conditions, and trauma related injuries including sports related injuries, burns, bleeds and breaks.
You will learn how to deliver quality cpr to an adult, child and infant and the use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
You will learn how to assess and treat respiratory related ailments and deal with a choking casualty.
You will learn how to assess and treat an unconscious casualty.
Most importantly ; Having completed this programme you will leave competent in the skills of First Aid Provision in the event of an emergency.

The next First Aid Response (FAR) Recertification course will run November 20th/21st.

First Aid Response November 2025 Portlaoise FAR Maltings House

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TESTIMONIALS

Deiviidas, Cavan

“Excellent. Very Engaging, Informative, Practical and hands on.”

Ciara, Monaghan

“Content of material was applied directly to the requirements of our workplace.”

Kirsten, Cork

“10/10. This course fully met all my expectations, and more. It was informative, clear and concise and fully applicable to what we need.”

Elaine, Dublin

“Great tutor. Really knowledgeable. Brilliantly delivered and easy to understand. All questions fully answered.”

Patricia, Dublin

“Excellent student resources available both on line and in the Student Manual, and very easy to follow.”

Pedro, Cavan

“Very engaging, fun and easy to understand. Made learning so easy.”

Ciara, Monaghan

“The best part of this course was the practical hands on experience of different scenarios. I now feel fully confident that if I need to I can perform CPR.”

Michelle, Mayo

“Incredible tutor, with great personal experience makes understanding the material so much easier. 5 Stars.”

Ciara, Kilkenny

“I am dropping you an email to say thank you so, very much for letting me take your first aid course and for sending me the certificate so quickly.

I really appreciate it and I am very grateful. I thoroughly enjoyed the course and your teaching was fantastic. I’ve never been on a first aid course so educational and so well thought! It is clear that you have a passion for it and that came across in the brilliant learning material and in your delivery of it.”

Oonagh, Offaly

“It was brilliant to have you in our center and hopefully we will meet again. The students had excellent feedback for me from the training so It was very successful from a learning and teaching point of view”

Assessment Process

This programme is assessed by Skills Assessment :

Theory Examination

This will consist of a 20 Question Multiple Choice Assessment derived by the Pre Hospital Emergency Care Council, with questions taken across all units of the course.

A minimum Pass Mark of 60% (12/20) must be achieved in order to Pass this component.

Skills Assessment

This will consist of 5 separate practical skills based on the learning outcomes.

A minimum Pass Mark of 60% overall must be achieved in order to Pass this component.

PHECC Approved Training Provider

Maltings Training is a Pre Hospital Emergency Care Council Approved Institution. This means we can deliver PHECC Approved Programmes and Certification directly to the end user rather than have to go through a third party organization. Our Quality Assurance Agreement with PHECC guarantees the highest standards and quality of training and delivery. For details of our PHECC Approval and Quality Assurance reports click here.

We are based in Portlaoise, Co,. Laois and we deliver training Nationwide.

Duration : A FAR Recertification Programme is 2 Days in duration / 16 hours and is delivered as two days Practical Skills Training in a face to face setting.

As a PHECC Approved RI, we have direct access to the PHECC Certification Portal where-by certificates are processed and issued electronically directly to the learner in real time therefore there is no delay in the certification process.

Practical Skills Training can be delivered on-site at your location particularly for your staff, or if it suits your scheduling roster better participants can attend one of our public programmes.