Free First Aid at Work Practice Test 2026
200 questions on CPR and AEDs, bleeding, fractures, burns, choking and major illness, written to the 2025 UK resuscitation guidelines and HSE guidance. Tuned for mobile. No account needed.
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The First Aid at Work exam at a glance
First Aid at Work (FAW) is the three-day workplace first aid course set out in HSE's guidance on the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981, usually certificated as a Level 3 Award in First Aid at Work. You are assessed on practical skills such as CPR, AED use and bandaging, and on theory through a written or multiple-choice paper set by the awarding body, with pass marks around 70%. The certificate lasts 3 years, and requalifying takes a 2-day course.
Tigertest has 200 First Aid at Work practice questions with explanations, all free with no account required.
- Course length
- 3 days (EFAW is 1 day)
- Assessment
- Practical observation plus a theory paper
- Pass mark
- Set by each awarding body, about 70%
- Certificate valid
- 3 years
- Requalification
- 2-day course before expiry
- Refresher
- Annual, strongly recommended by HSE
- Guidelines
- Resuscitation Council UK, 2025
- Content set by
- HSE (L74, Appendices 5 and 6)
Updated by the Tigertest team. Practice questions follow HSE guidance L74 on the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 and the Resuscitation Council UK 2025 guidelines, checked October 2026. Exam rules change, so confirm current details with HSE: First aid at work (L74).
How It Works
Train, Then Test
Four training sets, one per mock test: Set 1 holds exactly the 50 questions of Test 1, and so on. Master Set 1, take Test 1, then move on. Questions you miss come back until you have mastered them.
Mock Tests
Four 50-question mock tests covering every part of the course, with a 70 percent pass line, in line with most awarding bodies' theory papers, and an explanation of the right answer on every question.
Built on HSE's First Aid at Work Syllabus
HSE's guidance L74 lists what every First Aid at Work course must cover: the emergency first aid content, from CPR and AEDs to bleeding, shock and choking, plus fractures, spinal and chest injuries, burns, eye injuries, poisoning, anaphylaxis and major illness. No awarding body publishes how many questions each topic gets, so the mock tests here weight the topics by how much of the course they fill. Colleges, employers and trainers who run first aid courses can set Tigertest as practice at tigertest.io/teach and see which topics the group misses most.
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1. Lock in the CPR numbers
Call 999 as soon as someone is unresponsive, check breathing for no more than 10 seconds, then give compressions on the lower half of the breastbone, 5 to 6 cm deep at 100 to 120 a minute, with 30 compressions to 2 breaths. Drowning starts with 5 rescue breaths, and an AED goes on as soon as it arrives.
2. Learn each condition by its signs
Pale, cold and clammy with a fast, weak pulse is shock. Crushing chest pain into the arm is a heart attack. A drooping face or weak arm is a stroke. Sweaty, shaky and confused in a person with diabetes is a hypo. Swollen lips, wheeze and hives are anaphylaxis. Most questions start from the signs.
3. Know the treatment numbers
Cool burns for at least 20 minutes, pinch a nosebleed for about 10 minutes, put a tourniquet 5 to 7 cm above the wound, give 300 mg of aspirin for a heart attack and 15 to 20 g of glucose for a hypo, repeat an adrenaline auto-injector after 5 minutes and call 999 for a seizure over 5 minutes.
4. Fix your misses, then retest
Tigertest tracks your accuracy by topic. Aim for 40 or more out of 50 on all four mock tests before your assessment. After each test, drill the questions you missed and retrain that test's set. Then practise the hands-on skills on the course itself.
First Aid at Work Frequently Asked Questions
What is the First Aid at Work qualification?
First Aid at Work, or FAW, is the three-day workplace first aid course described in HSE's guidance on the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981. It is usually certificated as a Level 3 Award in First Aid at Work and covers everything on the one-day Emergency First Aid at Work course plus fractures, spinal injuries, chest injuries, burns, eye injuries, poisoning, anaphylaxis and major illness such as heart attack, stroke, epilepsy, asthma and diabetes.
How is First Aid at Work assessed, and what is the pass mark?
Trainers watch you carry out practical skills such as CPR, using an AED, the recovery position and bandaging, and you also sit a short written or multiple-choice theory paper. Each awarding body sets its own papers and pass marks, which usually sit around 70 percent. The mock tests here have 50 questions each and use a 70 percent pass line.
How long is a First Aid at Work certificate valid?
Three years. To stay qualified you take a two-day requalification course before the certificate expires. HSE also strongly recommends a short refresher course in each year of the three, so CPR and other skills stay sharp.
Do these questions follow the 2025 resuscitation guidelines?
Yes. CPR, AED, choking and first aid answers follow the Resuscitation Council UK guidelines published in October 2025, such as calling 999 as soon as someone is unresponsive, compressions 5 to 6 cm deep at 100 to 120 a minute and tourniquets 5 to 7 cm above a wound. Workplace rules follow HSE guidance L74 and RIDDOR.
Is this an official course or certificate?
No. Every question is written by Tigertest from HSE guidance and the Resuscitation Council UK guidelines that First Aid at Work courses are built on, so it tests the same knowledge without copying any awarding body's paper. It is free revision for the theory side of the course, not a certificate, and it cannot replace the hands-on practice and assessment that make you a qualified first-aider.
I teach First Aid at Work courses. Can my students use Tigertest?
Yes, for free. Make a class at tigertest.io/teach, post one link, and students join with just their name. You see who practiced, their test scores and the topics your class misses most.
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